Ed Huntress wrote:

Ah, the good old days -- a Tea Bag Reactionary's wet dream.

Your kind has a complete lack of respect for the founders, from the rank
and file who threw the tea into the harbor on up.

The period from the Civil War to the creation of the Fed was our
greatest period of growth. At the end of it, in spite of Marx's
prediction that people would demand Communism, they did not, even in
feudal Russia where Leninism replaced Marxism so that Communism could be
forced upon them.


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