but if you mean like "the great society" or the "war on poverty" the answer would be "no" 
by the way we have lost the war on poverty big time. poverety has won. what was the exit stategy, we need to get out. we have spent over 7 trillion on it and we still have the poor. 


--- On Wed, 11/5/08, Cleveland, Kyle E. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Cleveland, Kyle E. <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Okay, now that the election is over...
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 1:32 PM
> Oh, I don't know...Reagan's ending of the Cold War
> comes to mind.  Bush
> Sr.'s signing ADA legislation into law worked for me. 
> Eisenhower's
> Interstate Road System seemed like a good idea.  Nixon
> opened China's
> economy to the west (not sure how positive that is in
> retrospect, but we
> got a few less nukes pointed at us out of the deal).
> 
> Who knows, maybe Obama will be another FDR.  Another WPA
> could rebuild
> our crumbling 60+ year-old infrastructure.
> 
> Economically, one of the issues that we face that no one
> wants to admit
> is that we ARE at war.  And as such, our economy needs to
> be placed onto
> a wartime footing.  The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan sound
> expensive--and they are.  But they're actually being
> fought on the
> cheap.  That's why it's taking us so long to
> achieve our strategic
> goals.  Tactically, we're fine.  Strategically,
> we're not; and I place
> the blame for that solely at the feet of Don Rumsfeld. 
> Want someone to
> blame for the morass in the sandbox?  He's your man.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cerebral Palsy List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Michael H. Collis
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:40 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Okay, now that the election is over...
> 
> I have a question:  Looking back over the history of this
> country, are
> there many positive initiatives started by people we would
> consider to
> be conservative today?
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