(I would only add that when "Wall Street" took over and Workers were forced into 401-K's instead of pensions and Deregulation took over most of our "safe guards" it helped create a Culture of Greed that ended up in the 2008 Crash. )
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As you say:
The last Politician that I can think of to leave Washington poor was Harry Truman. How many of our representatives are similarly destitute?
I don't know what the answer is, and I don't know what the future holds. But each generation seems to have less to hold it's head up about. The sixties brought us such great advancements in science, the Apollo missions were an example of ingenuity and determination over adversity.
We used to take on the hard things, we used to dedicate ourselves as a people to that which was impossible. Curing diseases that were decimating our population. Polio, Mumps, Small Pox were all eradicated. We used to do such wonderful things. and back again)
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The last Politician that I can think of to leave Washington poor was Harry Truman. How many of our representatives are similarly destitute?
I don't know what the answer is, and I don't know what the future holds. But each generation seems to have less to hold it's head up about. The sixties brought us such great advancements in science, the Apollo missions were an example of ingenuity and determination over adversity.
We used to take on the hard things, we used to dedicate ourselves as a people to that which was impossible. Curing diseases that were decimating our population. Polio, Mumps, Small Pox were all eradicated. We used to do such wonderful things.
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