[geeks] RIP, Ronald Reagan

[wa2egp at att.net]

> Personally, I'm inclined to argue the rot set in with Lincoln. He set 
> the government on the course of massive expansion of centralized Federal 
> power, took the country to civil war over the right to secede from the 
> Union, and freed the slaves in the Southern states (but not the North) 
> not because it was the right thing to do, but as a politically-expedient 
> economic-warfare move against the South. 
> 
> Of course, one could also argue that it was his predecessors who pushed 
> the South to the *point* of secession. 
> 
Darn, I'm not the only one who feels that way.  From a "bottom up" government to a
"top down" govern ment.  Bah!  Then again slavery ain't too cool either.  Pick the 
lesser of two evils is still picking evil...

Bob