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NB188   Too Old to Believe

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When I was a young man and full of hope for our country and its people, I thought <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />....America.... would grow and become even grander. Born just after the end of WWII in a time when the only manufacturing left on the earth was mostly in the ..US.. with Asia and ..Europe.. giant mounds of bricks and mortar. Any man that could do an honest day's work could afford a family and a house and get promoted over the years and have a pension waiting for him at retirement.

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Bobby Kennedy had just won the Democratic nomination for the Presidency and I was just sure that ....America.... would explode with opportunity for all people. Then in a second all was lost. Like his older brother, Bobby was dead from a gun shot wound. This country has been going badly ever since. Downsizing, stagflation, outsourcing, insourcing, flat world, NAFTA, and now the FED doing everything possible to devalue the dollar until the Peso looks like the stronger currency.

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Obama comes along and talks like Bobby once did, with all that hope and energy to change the world for the best, but I'm too old to believe again.