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>>Yes, someone has to carry the coal to the furnace.
>>Iambic pentameter won't get it there.
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>>However, most historians will place Shakespeare high, if not highest, on the list of most influential people in the history of western culture.
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>>Words do matter.
>>I recently read a history of the depression years in the US.
>>FDR did lots of good things and many- perhaps more- questionable things, but in the final analysis he was probably the most successful and beloved president in US history.
>>This particular history gives a lot of credit to his fireside chats.
>>People looking for hope found it in his voice.
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>>Is a Tweet a contemporary chat? Both circumvent the press and both drove the press batty.
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>While in the Air Force, I was stationed at a number of “interesting places”, which to this day I refuse to visit. These include San Antonio, and San Angelo, Texas, Orlando, Florida, and Biloxi, Mississippi. The last 15 months of my enlistment were at Richards Gebaur Air Force Base, at Headquarters 10 Air Force, Grandview, Missouri. That state is pronounced “Missoura”, by the locals of that time, 1966-67.
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>There were many civilians in our building (hundreds) and I talked to many of them. Not one had anything good to say about FDR. In fact they were all very negative about how FDR behaved as President. You see, these good folks were very strict Protestants, and hated the concept that a person should receive any type of help from anyone. A person must make his/her own place in the world. To do otherwise is against the Laws of God.
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>The Protestant ethic and the Republican Party have something in common. Every dog for himself! It is a credo. A friend of mine retired recently and said, “I am going to enjoy my retirement. First, I will get into my pickup truck, and drive deep into the desert where I will enjoy my republican retirement, never to be seen again. There I will enjoy my republican health care: Don't get sick”!
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>Don't be surprised if Social Security and Medicare suddenly disappear. After all, such things are not in the bible, where the source of knowledge resides.
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>Tom

Can't speak to the bible, but if anyone touches Social Security or Medicare, there will be a revolution.