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To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (60228)	12/18/2012 12:26:05 AM
From: RMF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Why does it always have to be liberal prescriptions or conservative prescriptions? Is there no middle ground? Was child labor good? It was very "hands off". That's conservative, right? Were the 1920's good, when under Coolidge the "business of the government was business" and everybody was buying and selling scam stocks on 10% margins and eventually the entire world economy went into the crapper? Or were the early 2000's good when "credit was easy, man" and all you had to do was lie about a job and put no money down on a house you couldn't afford? That kinda turned out the same way the Coolidge thing turned out didn't it? If the government had responded to the Bush crash the way it did to the Coolidge crash we'd all be in soup kitchen lines. I believe there IS too much regulation, but the answer to that isn't to go too far in the other direction. These are very serious times but we don't seem to have very sensible people running things.