<OT>What exactly was better in the past? While smallpox was killing the Indians America had a better future. When we got the upper hand against Hitler & Moscow, America had a better future. When Ozzie & Harriet Nelson were raising their kids, America had a better future. Now gangs of kids are killing kids on the streets of Salinas. Drug wars rage along the Mexican border. College grads are deep in debt and can't find decent jobs or have none. Scores on food stamps, going to food banks and seniors skipping their medicine to just get by. Congress bickerers and soon the dollar will no longer be the world's reserve currency. Watch the Mideast. Sonny, you ain't seen nothing yet.