Dickey, I have mostly found you to be reasonable (when I try to see things from your point of view. Please undrestand that I find Bobert to be reasonable even when I don't try to see things from his point of view. You two guys gotta find even a small piece of common ground to stand on and talk.

"Relevance to the present day situation

Republicans cry ¡§class warfare¡¨ whenever Democrats suggest measures that are meant to improve the lives of American citizens in general, but which may cut into the profits of the wealthy and powerful benefactors of the Republican Party. They like to pretend that they represent the forces of law and order, and that they will protect us against those of us who wish to institute ¡§class warfare¡¨ and plunge our country into anarchy and terrorism. But in reality they are similar in many ways to the brigands of 14th century France or the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age."

That little snippet is from a Democrat site. So, it is likely biased. But the following statements (observations) from the same site are good observations regardless of whose site they are from:

ƒÞ Passing of a Medicare bill that prohibits government negotiation of prices with the drug companies, thus enriching drug companies at the expense of our senior citizens
ƒÞ Massive tax cuts for the rich
ƒÞ Nominating a Secretary of Labor who is rabidly anti-union
ƒÞ Nominating a Secretary of the Interior who is rabidly anti-environment
ƒÞ No bid contracts for reconstruction in Iraq, and then failure to follow up on gross violations of those contracts
ƒÞ Failure to raise the minimum wage for almost 10 years
ƒÞ Passage of a bankruptcy bill that encourages predatory lending practices
ƒÞ Passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which allowed the consolidation and monopolization of the news media
ƒÞ Failure to take seriously or respond to the worst hurricane to hit our country in several years or decades
ƒÞ Deregulation of the energy industry, which allowed Enron to create an artificial power crises in order to raise energy prices
ƒÞ Voting machines provided by allies of the Republican Party, that count our votes using secret software and produce results that cannot be verified

They are not just good observations (IMO), but they certainly pose some serious questions about Republicans and the Neocon agenda.