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To: Road Walker who wrote (348293)	8/24/2007 9:43:24 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573717

"Their ultimate goal, as Grover Norquist once put it, is to get America back to the way it was “up until Teddy Roosevelt, when the socialists took over,” getting rid of “the income tax, the death tax, regulation, all that.” " Yeah. The Gilded Age. Which was a wonderful time. If you were rich. Not so wonderful if you weren't. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been all the various labor movements, populists movements, the Grange, etc. But, the historical revisionists like to forget about that aspect of things. Everyone likes to envision that they would have been one of the rich under that system, despite the likelihood that it would have been otherwise...

To: Road Walker who wrote (348293)	8/24/2007 9:44:09 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1573717

Krugman is an idiot, Gore was the one who started the Horton crap

To: Road Walker who wrote (348293)	8/24/2007 12:53:40 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573717

>Oh, and by the way: over all, Hispanic immigrants appear to commit relatively few crimes — in fact, their incarceration rate is actually lower than that of native-born non-Hispanic whites. I wouldn't know that from reading here... -Z