Remember when our Fathers and Grandfathers, who lived through the Great Depression.............

louis c

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Thu Dec-11-08 09:42 PM
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Remember when our Fathers and Grandfathers, who lived through the Great Depression.............

Edited on Thu Dec-11-08 09:43 PM by louis c

told us never to vote for Republicans and we never knew why?

Now we know why.

I've been using this line all day with my blue collar friends.

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Lint Head

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Thu Dec-11-08 09:45 PM
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1. Makes me think of my Dad. I miss him greatly!

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libnnc

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Thu Dec-11-08 09:49 PM
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2. my great grandmother told me that in 1980

she hissed disgust at all those "Reagan Democrats"

the only time I ever saw her cry

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louis c

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Fri Dec-12-08 09:57 PM
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10. God Bless Her (NT)

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mrcheerful

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Thu Dec-11-08 10:24 PM
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3. I knew why gramps and dad said that seeing as gramps lost his farm

to the banks after he couldn't get a loan to plant his crops in 1930.

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Captain Hilts

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Thu Dec-11-08 10:56 PM
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4. Here you go...

Edited on Thu Dec-11-08 10:57 PM by MookieWilson

FDR: A wise man, your grandfather.
ER: And all those who felt like your grandparents did. They're such dears!

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jwirr

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Thu Dec-11-08 11:15 PM
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5. Bingo.

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ananda

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Thu Dec-11-08 11:25 PM
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6. I always knew why.

My mother and grandmother always made sure of that.

And I had a good education somehow. Nobody really
had to teach me that crass materialism and a
robber baron mentality were bad news.

Sue

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TheKentuckian

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Thu Dec-11-08 11:30 PM
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7. This is exactly why we need public, televised excecutions of quite a few

along with a strip down of everything named for Reagan, and monuments. Apparently, some lessons are easy to forget without bitter ugliness and blood.

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OffWithTheirHeads

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Fri Dec-12-08 12:33 PM
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9. I'm all for that

and we should start with Milt Friedmans "Chicago boys".

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GoneOffShore

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Thu Dec-11-08 11:34 PM
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8. Except some of them didn't say that.

Mine didn't.

He always told me that FDR was Satan's asshole and Herbert Hoover was a saint.

Despite the fact that he was a self employed house painter and one of the people who ended benefiting from Social Security.

At 20 I knew he was wrong and now, at 60 I'm positively sure of it.

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JustAnotherGen

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Fri Dec-12-08 10:02 PM
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11. Um

I'm half black.

I've always known why! :rotfl: Just teasing you!

:pals:

Great thread!

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