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>The following was found in some work papers from 25+ years ago. I wish I
>could claim authorship. The author is unknown. In today's venue of America
>being attacked from within and without, maybe there's some truth in...
Very little truth in it. That was one of the most ignorant pieces of
crap I have ever read.
>ARE YOU OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER AMERICA?
>- When you never dreamed your country could loose?
It's "lose" -- and its dangerous to become overconfident. I'm glad we
have woken up to the fact that we are vulnerable.
>- When you left your front door opened?
Still can, in some parts. I lived in Maine during the year 2000.
People routinely left their front door open, and their car unlocked. If
you left a laptop in an unlocked car, it would very likely still be
there when you got back.
>- When you went to church and the preacher preached from the Bible?
This happens in church, just not on TV.
>- When a boy was a boy and a girl was a girl, and you could tell them
>apart?
Whoever wrote this must be blind. If he wants to tell them apart, maybe
everybody should go around nude. That would make him happy.
>- When the word "Socialism" was a dirty word?
Yeah, during the McCarthy era. We should go back to that, eh?
>- When you were embarrassed to be described as a "Liberal"?
I know of no liberals who are embarrassed about their political
orientation.
>- When the poor were too proud to take charity?
Still are. I have a friend who has been on the ragged edge of
homelessness for years. He wants to work. He finds jobs. I told
him the welfare system was set up just for people like him, to give
him a hand up while he gets back on his feed, but he was too proud
to take advantage of it. Now that he's married with kids, his wife
just totaled their only car (no collision insurance) and he lost is
job as a retail salesman for Nextel, he'll be evicted Thursday if he
can't come with $1600, he's decided to apply for public assistance.
>- When a nickel was worth 5 cents?
It is still worth 5 cents.
>- When you bragged about your hometown, your state and your Nation?
People still do brag about hometown and state. Unfortunately our
foreign policy has made us one of the most hated nations. This isn't
the fault of American citizens.
>- When the flag was a sacred symbol?
Remember when idolatry was a sin?
>- When the government stood up for America?
It still can. We can vote.
>- When the man who went wrong was to blame; not his mother's
>nursing habits or his father's income?
A man who goes wrong like that still goes to jail.
>- When everyone knew right from wrong?
Everybody THINKS they know right from wrong, including the author of
this miserable tract. That's part of the problem.
>- When things were not perfect, and you didn't expect them to be?
In THIS economy? Who expects perfection?
>- When people still had the capacity for indignation?
I feel pretty indignant about this arrogance and ignorance of the
author of this piece spreading around the internet.
>- When "sick" meant that you were not feeling well?
It still does.
>- When people expected less and valued what they had more?
Some still do.
>- When everyone was not entitled to an annual wage, whether he
>worked or not?
Few people (except some labor union members) think they are entitled
to a wage, except for people I met in former communist countries
like Bulgaria and Croatia.
>- When a man's word was his bond?
It still is, in my circle.
>- When America was the land of the free and the home of the brave?
In a song lyric, it is.
>- When fewer words were needed to say what you meant (this one is for
>politicians everywhere)?
Some do. They're generally not from either of the two major
parties. They don't get elected though.
>If you spend as much time doing the things you worry about getting done, as
>you do worrying about doing them, you wouldn't have anything to worry about.
Not bad. Finally one I can agree with.
-A
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