From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 17 08:42:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA11288 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 08:42:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgw02.execpc.com (mailgw02.execpc.com [169.207.3.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA11226 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 08:41:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fpawlak@execpc.com) Received: from darkstar.connect.com (narn-2-92.mdm.mke.execpc.com [169.207.134.220]) by mailgw02.execpc.com (8.9.0) id KAA13182; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 10:41:50 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from fpawlak@localhost) by darkstar.connect.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA12470; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 10:41:41 -0500 (CDT) From: "Frank Pawlak" Message-Id: <980617154140.ZM12469@darkstar.connect.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 15:41:40 +0000 In-Reply-To: Wes Peters "Re: US Immigration (was: Funny, but true...)" (Jun 17, 9:27am) References: <199806131959.QAA25251@roma.coe.ufrj.br> <19980613174107.42635@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net> <19980615125757.61980@papillon.lemis.com> <980616221213.ZM10797@darkstar.connect.com> <19980616181307.09604@papillon.lemis.com> <980617015652.ZM11169@darkstar.connect.com> <3587E069.488410B3@softweyr.com> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: Wes Peters Subject: Re: US Immigration (was: Funny, but true...) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Jun 17, 9:27am, Wes Peters wrote: > Subject: Re: US Immigration (was: Funny, but true...) > Frank Pawlak wrote: > > > I had forgotten about this. In the 50's we had a lot of politicians looking > > for communists behind every lamp post and under every bed. A lot of elections > > were won using that stance. In general the 1950's were good years here, with > > the exceptions of that and civil rights. > > Except the government was systematically destroying "America-as-it-was" and > creating the suburban welfare state we now enjoy. Of coure in the 1950's > it was far too early to see the damage they had done. > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com >-- End of excerpt from Wes Peters I take it that you are referring to the systematic way that the rich got richer and the poor got poorer, the disappearance of the middle class through tax law changes? I agree "America today" is not "America-as it was" then. sigh! Frank To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message