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[PATRICK]

and the commitment to infrastructure has to take into account the fraudulent implementation, if any, of government services abused by the GOP. When LBJ launched the Great Society going beyond the FDR programs, that did much good within a vote enabling pork-fest which the GOP decried, envied and imitated without doing a single blessed thing for the nation. We have learned to do and expect better and the anti-corruption, hopefully, will be steered hand in hand with proper government ventures. There are continuing challenges all around to make this so, especially if we get by default, unprepared and not yet as well represented as we need to be, one party rule over the true business of government.

We are in a state now when it is the same qualitative difference of becoming liberated from Britain, yet it will not be acknowledged as the grueling test and the old temptations put us under full accountability and future threat.