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- From: grendel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alyosha Bourgea)
- Subject: Re: Limbaugh Watch - Day 17
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 16:35:29 GMT
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- In <1992Nov20.082220.18551@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> mk009b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu ([Matt Kaufman]) writes:
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- >I'm sorry but as a Conservative I must take a stand.
-
- *Take* that stand, baby! Just do it!
-
- Day 17 has come and
- >gone and the Conservative Movement
-
- The Conservative "Movement"???!!?!?!?!????
- Molotov cocktails and all?
-
- is alive and well.
-
- Alive, perhaps...
-
- We need only look at
- >the future and see that the decade of the 1980s was not the GREAT EVIL that
- >you people are making it out to be.
-
- Small hint: the 1980's are in the _past_, not the future.
-
- The average American Worker's salry
- >increased by over 15 % during the 1980s and this period took place during
- >the longest peactime prosperity in our country's history.
-
- Unemployment rose to 10.1% under Reagan. And sure it was peacetime to
- suburban brats like us, but not all wars get sanctioned by Congress, 'member.
- Tell the El Salvadorans and Nicaraguans that the 1980s were peacetime.
-
- The Liberal Elite
- >of this country seeks to revert back to a time when the government "TOOK
- >CARE" of its people.
-
- Whereas the Conservative Elite seeks to perpetuate a government that doesn't
- give a shit about its people.
-
- This is not only dangerous, but sets a bad example of
- >the American way of life. Our country was founded by men who believed that
- >individual liberty and freedom meant that a person could only be limited by
- >his or her own abilities.
-
- Whereas today intelligent people can see that the most able people do not
- always find themselves in the most important positions, but rather the people
- with the most influence.
-
- >The 1980s created a sense of pride in America for being the best in the
- >world and we still are.
-
- The 1980s had nothing to do with it. America is the best, has been for some
- time, and probably will continue to be for some time. That doesn't mean there
- isn't room for improvement.
-
- >You nay sayers out there take the Regan Bush years as being 12 years of
- >hell, but can anyone seriously think that the pipe dream presidencies of
- >Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, or second term of Jimmy Carter would have
- >brought about a more positive result.
-
- Don't know. Never got the chance to find out. All I know is what I've lived
- through, and yes, it was 12 years of hell.
-
- Rather we
- >should be as closed minded as the liberals claim we are.
-
- Go for it.
-
- >Keep this in mind when you are trashing someone who has stood up for these
- >basic American Values and has not only succeeded but has excelled.
-
- BzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZzzzzT!! Thank you for playing.
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