[QUOTE="johnnyv2003"]wow, sounds like Joe The Republican has a pretty boring day going on there...I'm guessing since you've written such a vivid story that you know that alot of the programs that you're talking about were started by the man some of you know as Richard M. Nixon. Who incidentally is a republican.euphzilla03
I think that almost adds to the effect. If you think about it some of Nixons stuff was by todays use of the word Liberal. And he's going off the fact that liberal thinking is demonized and yet someone as republican as nixon could have held onto some liberal views. Or of course this could all be pure speculation on my part and I missed the point completely.
oh god yea, if people weren't fooled by the republican/democrat dichotomy then Nixon would be considered very fiscally liberal. In Nixon's defense, he did have the foresight to see that the Baby Boomers were starting to come of age. Which led to us getting off the gold standard, and onto the credit system we have now. Which actually kept us strung together, if barely. Because lord help us if we were still on the gold standard today, there wouldn't be enough for even the elite rich.
I hate to look at things in such calous terms, but I'm hoping once the Baby Boomer gen starts to fade away we can actually shrink back the federal government. Not that we'll ever be back on the gold standard, but hopefully when the boomers see the end of their generation we won't need such a strong social security system, or welfare...etc
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