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livetohike

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15. Me neither.....it was all horrible for those of us who lived through it

Reply to MarianJack (Reply #10)

Thu Aug 8, 2013, 05:04 PM

Aug 2013

I was teaching Elementary school when Reagan declared ketchup was a vegetable. All of my students were on free/reduced breakfast and lunch. It was sickening. That and everything else he did.

The only positive about living through those "Three Stooges" is we recognize the ones in waiting. We've seen it before.

to having survived this long

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It was a thing of beauty. I remember it well livetohike Aug 2013 #6

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Me neither.....it was all horrible for those of us who lived through it livetohike Aug 2013 #15

And ushered in the last era of progressive reform, 1974 - 1980. Warren Stupidity Aug 2013 #8

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