The Free Zone Board

[mikkj]

RE: Pat/ Oil companies.

Pat, I have told you this before, so you have no excuse other than trying to peddle right-wing propaganda. WELFARE HAS BEEN REFORMED!!! You get five years in your entire lifetime, and returning to work is a requirement for elegibility. Please stop ragging on that old republican chew-toy. there is NO "lifetime" on welfare lifestyle to remove anymore.

As for we "me first, nobody second" baby-boomers, I guess you're right. We started life out in grade school learning that we might have to withstand nuclear attack (the first generation to do so), and how to prepare for it,and didn't get bitter. Instead, we fought for the right to listen to rock-and-roll, wear jeans to school, grow our hair long, and otherwise have the normal rights of any citizen - in high school. THEN, we fought a war, and fought to end it. We fought for womens rights, civil rights, rights for gays,rights for workers, freedom of speech, civil and political change, rights of consumers, the poor and the handicapped. Yeah, I guess you're right, we ARE a bunch of selfish S.O.B.'s aren't we? Funny thing is, I never noticed ANY right-wingers doing ANY of those things.

Also, you better re-think who it was who put the mentally ill on the streets. I believe Meme had a detailed post on the subject recently. What YOU are talking about are regulations which stopped asylums and other institutions from using 24hr. restraints, shock therapy, massive medication, physical indigities (including rape, beatings, and torture), and from confining a person against their will with NO CAUSE. Even today, if a person IS seriously ill, or may be a threat to themselves, or others, they can, and should, be confined via court order. In the republican "good old days", all you needed to do was have a grudge against someone, and a good lawyer, or be a parent, to have them confined FOR LIFE with NO CAUSE. I can see why you would like that, but we "selfish" baby-boomers won't allow your to get away with thaat kind of crap (still).

Propaganda, propaganda, propaganda. Try sticking with the REAL facts, not the ones you WANT to be real.