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To: jbe who wrote (8079)	10/8/1998 3:15:00 PM
From: j_b	Respond to of 67261

OT***More philosophical musings**** <<1) Conservatives, typically, see a Golden Age some time in the past, and it's all down hill from there. (Am I right in seeing your post as firmly in that tradition?)>> I agree in theory - that's why they're called conservative <g>. Any change from that stake-in-the-sand point must be bad. However, I realize the past had good and bad points. What I would like to do is combine the better points of that era (thriftiness, personal responsibility, work ethic, empathy for your neighbor, etc.) and combine it with the good points from this era. I don't mind the concept behind much of the New Deal, but I think it was hijacked along the way by greedy political types to use to buy votes. We are like that frog in the pot - they turned the heat on slowly, and before we knew it, we were cooked! Most of what I know from the depression era or thereabouts is hearsay from people that lived through it. I'm active in an old-time-radio group, and the people that grew up during that period are some of the nicest people I can even imagine. Their values are generally what I believe in (they are not prudish either - that's amore recent invention), and their attitudes toward life and how it should be lived are truly inspiring.