how dare us ask the poor to work, where is your
compassion?
  pam, i agree, but every program that is proposed
that includes "WORK" as part of the deal is called
cruel and heartless. and thats the truth. our buddy
ted kennedy dose/would have a coniption fit.

 --- pam <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I wish we had something like the WPA today. Give
> people, including those on
> welfare, a chance to provide for their
> families while doing worthwhile work and then watch
> what happens to the
> economy and peoples lives!
>
> Pam
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cleveland, Kyle E."
>
> > Pam, I can't take credit for that one.  I got it
> from my father, a
> > Dixie-crat who felt that the Kennedy's ruined the
> party--a stance made
> even
> > stronger by his hero-worship of FDR and the WPA,
> NRA, etc.  My grandfather
> > kept his family alive by building post offices
> throughout the Deep South
> for
> > $1/day as a WPA carpenter.  Anyway, Daddy has an
> old wheeze, "They should
> > never have shot Jack or Bobby in the '60s--they
> should have got Rose and
> > that old ^$$%!!, Joe in the '20s."
> >
> > The Old Man has softened quite a bit in his
> politics in the last few
> years,
> > though he's never forgiven Kennedy and Johnson for
> sending him to watch
> his
> > friends die for naught South East Asia.
> >
> > Kyle


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