"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
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> JohnT wrote:
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>> "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
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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...
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>>>> 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.
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> Believe it or not, back when *I* was in grammar school, they actually
> taught us American history! (Apparently you were not so fortunate.)
I didn't learn a lot of American History when I went to Grammar School in
England, but I think I have acquired more knowledge of your Country since
then than is possessed by many of your compatriots.
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JohnT
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