States rights? Are you advocating states rights?
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>Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:00:34 -0400
>From: KE Cleveland <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Hey Ken, See the Factcheck article on the Alabama Supreme Court Elections?
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>I love that movie so much because they got some of my older relatives (I
>mean OLD when I was just a little kids) spot on!
>
>"They got this here dee-pression goin' on. I got to do for me and mine."
>--Pete
>
>Much of the rural south hadn't recovered from that until well into the
>'70s. I suppose that's why so many of my relatives came north to the auto
>plants. The folks that stayed behind had a hardscrabble live for more than
>another generation. Incredibly sweet and simple folks. I get misty-eyed
>for them every time I watch that.
>
>They regarded FDR as almost a demi-god. Daddy said that, at least as far as
>the South was concerned, he would have been president for life (I guess he
>was, though, wasn't he?). If it weren't for WPA and the Tennessee Valley
>Authority (TVA), people would literally have starved to death. I believe
>FDR and Eisenhower had a good vision for what Federal gov't should be:
>focused on infrastructure to create work and stimulate the economy. Our
>infrastructure (roads, bridges, electrical grids, etc.) are in deplorable
>shape. There's been no widescale effort for improvement since the '50s.
>THAT's the kind of thing we need our government to focus on to pull us out
>of this mess.
>
>
>As for my personal views, I suppose I would be in the Libertarian or
>"state's rights" camp. If someone would start a "Leave me the heck alone"
>party, I would pull that lever right now! LOL! As it stands right now, I
>think we are blindly headed toward an Orwellian state. Now if I can only
>find my tin-foil hat! [?]
>
>Kyle
>
>On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Kathy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> LOL I'll have to watch that again this weekend! I sure do love those
>> ol-timey politicking scences.
>>
>> We have early voting here in NC and I plan to take advantage of it on my
>> way home from the audiologist's next week. There've been long lines so
>> it'll take a while, but I expect it'd take even longer on Election Day. We
>> have a real anti-Obama phone campaign but as I can't hear a thing on the
>> phone right now, it goes over my head, *smirks* They wouldn't do any good
>> anyway as I've made up my mind already. I wanted to help out at the
>> campaign here but as I can't go up to doors and knock (accessiblity issues)
>> and I can't call people, I can only give money. Maybe next time I can do
>> more with my implant having been activated and I've learned to use it.
>>
>> Kat
>>
>>
>> KE Cleveland wrote:
>>
>>> "It's back to the flour-mill for Pappy O'Dan'l!" --Homer Stokes, "O
>>> Brother,
>>> Where Art Thou?"
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Michael H. Collis <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>
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