Reply #19: "Never" is a big word.

[Naturyl]

Will it happen anytime soon? Unlikely. But "never" is excessively pessimistic, especially when we consider that a GMI proposal once made it all the way to Richard Nixon before being rejected after serious consideration. This was before Reagan, Clinton, the Bushes plus Limbaugh and his imitators made "welfare" the dirtiest of dirty words.

In today's warped right-wing climate? No, it's not going to happen. But give us 20 years of Democrats and ask again. Nobody would have thought the New Deal conceivable during Hoover's term - but the very next president made it happen nonetheless. Things can and do change - sometimes favorably.