Sounds like a future-reality to me, looking back at 2010, and If I'd converted my savings into cash before the current debacle�I'd be better able to do the same thing.�� If he converted his savings to cash before this then there ain't�as much�reason to rant.
�
Stephen

--- On Mon, 2/16/09, Gary Bawden <goldfieldgary@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

From: Gary Bawden <goldfieldgary@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Dilemmas by bus...
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 12:41 AM

Hmm...  it's probably just me, but I'd rather read valid concerns
about Westy kitchen equipment than a thinly disguised political
rant...

No problemo, though, I do have a delete button.

Gary

> Date:    Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:33:23 -0700
> From:    Jeffrey Olson <jjolson@GWTC.NET>
> Subject: Dilemmas by bus...
>
> I was feeling sad.

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> When Obama had been elected we'd felt hope like so many starving
> progressive types had.  When the recession officially became a
> depression in the winter of 2010

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> We'd gone as far to identify young
> leaders emerging from local to the national scene, and none of them had
> the cachet Obama had had during

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> The "filled with hope" now seen as a naive
> search to bridge the ideological divide in bipartisan politics
>

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