JohnT wrote:
> "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
> news:fcei7t0923@news2.newsguy.com...
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>> VainGlorious wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:23:58 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
>>> wrote:
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>>>> I thought so, too - until our "Democratic" Congressmen claimed one
>>>> point of view and voted another, in the session prior to their
>>>> summer recess. Now I'm not sure it will make much difference! Both
>>>> parties seem to consist of power-hungry politicians who have no
>>>> problem selling personal integrity in return for financial support
>>>> of the next campaign for re-election. (The "good of the country"
>>>> and "the will of the people" run a very distant second when it's a
>>>> question of retaining personal power.)
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>>> This, of course, contrasts sharply with the time when politicians were
>>> honest, thoughtful, forthright statesmen who took on impossible odds
>>> to better the country even if it meant losing an election. You know -
>>> back in...
>>>
>>> Never mind.
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>> In the early days of our country, it was not at all unusual for an
>> elected official to return to his civilian occupation upon leaving the
>> office to which he had been elected. (John Adams springs to mind.)
>> Now they take high-paid jobs lobbying their former colleagues, and
>> abandon their roots entirely.
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> Evelyn, you must have been a very young woman then.
Believe it or not, back when *I* was in grammar school, they
actually taught us American history! (Apparently you were
not so fortunate.) |