On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:31:44 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote:

Granted, Shrub was no peach, but have some sense of perspective!

Given the current mess in Washington, how long are we going to put up
with either party? I've about had it.

OTOH, I recently read an article on Tom Paine. Seems that after the war
Washington and Morris (the equivalent of treasury secretary) hired Paine
to write articles praising federal taxes. Seems they had to "open the
peoples purses" (Morris) to pay off the bankers who had financed the war.

So before we got past our first president, we had fought a war with
borrowed money and taxed the poor to pay off the rich - sound familiar?

The more things change ...

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Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw