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To: koan who wrote (216904)	2/13/2013 1:36:15 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541933

Steele There are 2 Michael Steeles The guy on the right is Boner's spokesman, Steel, no "e" The guy on the left, is, fittingly, to his left. Now sometimes even makes Scarboro-like noises about the awfulness of his R's. After leading the R's to victory in '10, he was replaced by RRRRRRRRRReince Prevus, either for being too successful or for being too successful while black.

To: koan who wrote (216904)	2/13/2013 3:09:40 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541933

Almost 80 year old words from FDR which could have been written yesterday. I wish that all who hear my voice could see this great Civic Center, with its beautiful courthouse that faces me as I speak. It has a national significance and I want to give you a few illustrations of where and how the application of this principle established here applied to national problems would help greatly to solve our national needs. Today, national progress and national prosperity are being held back chiefly because of selfishness on the part of a few. If Gainesville had been faced with that type of minority selfishness your city would not stand rebuilt as it is today. The type of selfishness that I am referring to is definitely not to be applied to the overwhelming majority of the American public. Most people, if they know both sides of a question and are asked to support the public good, will step forward and lay aside selfishness. But we must admit that there are some people who honestly believe in a wholly different theory of government than the one our Constitution provides. You know their reasoning. They say that in the competition of life for the good things of life "some people are successful because they have better brains or are more efficient; the wise, the swift and the strong are able to outstrip their fellowmen." And they say that that is nature itself and you cannot do anything about it and it is just too bad if some, the minority of people, get left behind. It is that attitude which leads such people to give little thought, to give anything but lip service, to the one-third of our population which I have described as being ill-fed, ill-clad, and ill-housed. The majority of them say, "I am not my brother's keeper" -- and they "pass by on the other side." Most of them are honest people. Most of them consider themselves excellent citizens. But, my friends, this Nation will never permanently get on the road to recovery if we leave the methods and processes of recovery to those people who owned -- I say "owned" -- the Government of the United States from 1921 to 1933. (Applause) They are the kind of people who, in 1936, the last national campaign, were saying, "Oh, yes, we want nobody to starve" but at the same time were insisting that the balancing of the budget was more important than making appropriations for relief. And when I told them that I, too wanted to balance the budget but that I put human lives ahead of dollars and handed them the book of the government estimates and asked them just where they would out the appropriations, inevitably they folded up and came back and told me, "Mr. President, that is not my business, that is yours." Yes, they have the same type of mind as those representatives of the people who vote against legislation to help social and economic conditions, proclaiming loudly that they are for the objectives but they do not like the methods and then fail utterly to offer a better method of their own. ngeorgia.com