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Maybe he's just not old enough...
Kent
Tuesday, October 15, 2002, 1:33:04 PM, you wrote:
> No kidding. He must have had a really bad trade today too.
> This response is obviously from someone who is completely out of touch
> with reality. These type of people are the one's we really have to worry
> about. They endanger the very existence of our country.
> I totally agree with the original message.
> Ken Chrane
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Matulich [mailto:alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 10:58 AM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: ARE YOU OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER AMERICA?
> Off topic...
>>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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