>>>who was really the last good Republican leader who was actually committed to reducing the size of govt
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>My good friend Mike, a staunch Obama hater, agrees with you about Ford.
>Mike never misses an opportunity to tell me that Obama has us on the road to socialism.
>Mike is retired and his Social Security and Medicare, a VA disability pension for injuries he got in artillery when added to a small retirement income from his self employment, allow Mike to live with dignity.
>Mike learned his profession - Land Surveyor - while going to school on the GI bill.
>90% of the work that Mike did in his profession involved State or Municipal funded projects.
>But, boy, is Mike down on socialism!
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>Regarding anti-government Gerry-
>He served with distinction in WWII and thereafter served 13 terms in the House of Representatives before running for VP.
>Except for jobs he held prior to the WWII and a brief fling with the law, to the best of my knowledge, he never earned a dime as a civilian.
But he did turn down a chance to play pro football ( which of course was not the road to riches in the late 1930s) He had a scar on his face from tackling Jay Berwanger.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
