Let's play REMEMBER WHEN from 8 years ago

[NJmaverick]

8 Years ago President Clinton stepped down as President. Do you remember how things were like back then?

Remember when gas was $1.25

Remember when our economy wasn't stagnant?

Remember when the federal government was paying off it's debt instead of adding to it, in record numbers?

Remember when our country wasn't bleeding huge amounts of red ink and American lives, because we are bogged down in TWO endless wars?

Remember New Orleans?

Remember the World Trade Center?

Remember when major bridges didn't collapse from neglect?

Remember when it was safe to eat produce or buy kids toys?

Remember when property taxes weren't a horrible burden to people?

Remember when outsourcing jobs meant you hired an American contractor to do the job?

Remember when there wasn't record numbers of illegal aliens?

Remember when the Justice department ENFORCED the laws instead of breaking them?

[bluerum]

1. I'm starting to forget. Is that bad?

[underpants]

2. Remember when they wasn't dark cloud of death and destruction hovering over us

or at least it wasn't brought up on a daily basis

[RichGirl]

3. My favorite....

I remember when school uniforms was a BIG issue! Ah...those were the days....

[JeanGrey]

4. You don't think anything is going to happen with illegals,

do you? And I couldn't find an American contractor eight years ago either.

[shadowknows69]

5. Anyone have the number to the suicide hotline?

[Tyler Durden]

6. Remember when the name "Clinton" was respected? nt

[JimGinPA]

9. Unfortunately, That Was Way More Than 8 Years Ago...

I guess you have forgotten the "Bring honor back to the Oval Office" that energized the chimp's base to help Gore lose. Without that shit it may not have been close enough for them to steal.

[lumberjack_jeff]

18. It still is. n/t

[tanyev]

7. I just came across this blast from the past.

Wonder how he feels now?


THE GROWN-UPS ARE BACK IN CHARGE

BY BILL HALTOM (2001)

Eight years have passed since that changing of the guard. But now, we baby-boomers are about to welcome back the grown-ups. Yes, this Saturday, we baby-boomers will be giving the country back to the greatest generation as George the Second reclaims the Presidency for the House of Bush.

While George the Second is himself a baby-boomer, make no mistake about it. We are not about to exchange one baby-boomer President for another. While George the Second may sit in the Oval Office, the country is once again going to be run by George the First’s generation.

Well, as a proud member of the Howdy Doody generation, I’m frankly relieved that my Dad’s generation is back in charge. Like most baby-boomers, I grew up enjoying life, content in the knowledge that my parents' generation was actually running the country. After all, my Daddy and George Bush won World War II and then came home and made all the mortgage payments while I and my fellow baby-boomers played with our hoola hoops, jumped on our pogo sticks, and watched inspirational television programs such as Captain Kangaroo, Gilligan's Island, and Bullwinkle.

And so it’s fine with me that Dick Cheney, a man who looks an awful lot like my Daddy, is actually now about to become the acting President of the United States. I just hope that maybe from time to time, Daddy Cheney will let President Bush and me borrow his car keys.

http://www.tba.org/TBA_BH/bh48.html

[treestar]

8. Oh but that was before 911 which changed everything

!

:sarcasm:

The number of illegals increased dramaticallly from the prior decade, showing the failure of amnesty/employer sanctions or that it was a mere band aid.

But without the repukes coming in to power, it would have been dealt with in a rational manner had Gore been sworn in as he should have.

It is also perfectly possible 911 would not have happened; a Gore administration would have paid attention to the reports on bin Laden intending to strike in the U.S.

[iamahaingttta]

10. Remember when...

Remember when it seemed like there was a school shooting every other week?

Remember the worst instance of domestic terrorism in US history?

Remember the first time the World Trade Center was bombed?

Remember when the FBI was vilified for killing citizens and grabbing children from closets to deport them to communist countries?

Remember when much of the asian economy tanked?

Remember "irrational exuberance"?

Remember when 800,000 Rwandans hacked each other to death, and nobody did anything about it?

Remember when the world was going to end because of a computer glitch?

Remember when half the country wanted to impeach the president?

Remember the "Contract on America"?

Remember when the Balkans, once again, erupted in violence?

Remember the biggest "trial of the century" since the Lindbergh kidnapping, which nearly divided the country along racial lines?


Look, the 1990's were good to me, and many people. But they weren't that great. Let's NOT play "Remember When" because it's easy to idealize ANY time period. Remember when the conservatives wanted to live back in the 1950's? That time period was not a magic land of harmony and love, and neither were the 1990's. It's just not healthy to do that, and it's easy to find things wrong with any time period.

Move on to the future, rather than trying to recreate the past!

[NJmaverick]

11. Your remember when is pretty weak, by comparison

I think it's important as the repukes find their voices (in their attacks on Obama and the Dems) that we play the remember when game to remind the Country of all the damage they have caused.

[iamahaingttta]

14. Of course it's weak.

The point is that nearly half the country hated the Clintons and hated the way the country was being run at the time. It doesn't mean they were right, and it doesn't mean that things aren't much, much worse now. It just means that there are good things and bad things, for some people, from any time period. For me, it does no good to dwell on the past. Better to work toward the future.

[NJmaverick]

16. The fact that things are much worse, is an important fact to remind people about

the republicans act like they didn't screw things up bit time. So it's good to remind people what it was like before they took over.

[HughBeaumont]

12. Remember when

3000 NY citizens, over 4000 of our soldiers and over 1 million citizens of Iraq & Afghanistan were still alive?

[NJmaverick]

13. Yeah I remember that

[kentuck]

15. That was 4 jobs ago for me...

and a much healthier 401K...

[lumberjack_jeff]

17. Remember when the possibility of someone burning a flag was a BIG DEAL? N/T