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To: JerseyanExile
I'm glad that Newt is doing this. A bold dream that may take years to accomplish, rather than makeshift solutions for a diminished future.

The current administration reminds me of J.G. Ballard's haunting book of short stories, Memories of the Space Age.

29 posted on 01/23/2012 3:33:02 PM PST by oblomov
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To: oblomov

Rats...the book isn’t available on Kindle. But I’ll read it - it sounds interesting.

Even though I don’t know what Newt’s proposal is yet, the mere suggestion is exciting. One of the problems with Bambi and the left is that they are trapped in the past...in the 1930s, which they regard as their glory days with FDR. That was more than 75 years ago.

Aside from the fact that FDR’s “solutions” didn’t work anyway (although there was some great WPA art and I appreciate the CCC trail shelters on the Appalachian Trail), it was a model that is way too antiquated for modern technological life. But the left is fundamentally retrograde and anti-progress.

If Obama has a portrait of Alinsky in the WH, as he is rumored to have, he’s merely showing how out of date and ignorant he is. Alinsky’s “solutions” weren’t where the future or even the present lie.


32 posted on 01/23/2012 4:00:56 PM PST by livius
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