Bobert:

Maybe our real differences come from the fact that I did not spend the 60's stoned. I had my own TV repair shop back when you could still repair TVs and I remeber sitting at the bench when news of the assasination of JFK came over the set I was working on.

That sort of made me sit up and take notice of the status of things in the world. Every comparison I make seems to go back to that time.

From every measure I can think of I see that everybody is better off now than we were then. America seems to bumble along while people make dire predictions about crap.

If another country gets ahead of the US it will be because of creeping socialisim.

I am sitting here listening to my 7 year old grand daughter learning to play the piano and sing the theme from Alladin. My major fear is that a terrorist group will strike the US again with something like a dirty bomb. I wish NSA had a person monitoring every phone in the us in order to prevent another terrorist attack. I have nothing to hide and even if I were arrested by accident I would realize that such things happen. Nobody can be perfect.

When I hear people calling GWB a facist because some overseas phone calls are tapped (which has been done repeatedly for far less reason) I can only think they are risking everyone's safety because of their own narrow minded idea of freedom that they are trying to force on everybody. I do not feel like I am giving up any freedoms by letting the government do it's job as good as it can under the circumstances.

Is your quality of life going downhill or uphill?