"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Nah, only liberals stick with what they believed in their youth...

um... does that make me a liberal?

Well, I dunno. I've never met a life-long Republican before.

Many (most?) of us started out all starry-eyed, believing that everyone
was
equal, and that the only reason some folks were paid more than others was
because of some amorphous "evil" in the world that held back "the people."
"From each, according to his abilities, to each, according to his needs"
wasn't just a Communist slogan -- many of us really believed it, and hoped
to make it a reality.

Those of us who obtained a liberal arts degree in college were REALLY fed
this line, and most of us swallowed it, hook, line and sinker.

It usually seems to take some true, harsh life experiences before one
realizes what a crock of sh*t all that really is.

What's that old saying? "A Conservative is a Liberal who has been
mugged."

Mugged by a bad guy...or just mugged by reality.

"It's said that criminals behave as they do because of their lack of
economic opportunities. Actually, it's more that they have no economic
opportunities BECAUSE they are criminals."

Tom
--
"The aim of public education is not to spread
enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as
many individuals as possible to the same safe
level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down
dissent and originality,.." -- H.L. Mencken