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History Suggests That Entitlement Era Is Winding Down

Len196 Wrote: Jan 14, 2013 8:39 AM

You are absolutely correct. Let’s call them foreign criminals violating US laws and depart them. And to prevent them being separated from their children let’s depart them WITH their children. There are many good, well qualified, law abiding people all over the world who are patiently waiting in line to get into US legally. And you McGovern preaching anarchy just to make you feel good and compassionate. What is it with you Irish bleeding hearts Kennedys, McGovern’s, etc.

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History Suggests That Entitlement Era Is Winding Down

It's often good fun and sometimes revealing to divide American history into distinct periods of uniform length. In working on my forthcoming book on American migrations, internal and immigrant, it occurred to me that you could do this using the American-sounding interval of 76 years, just a few years more than the Biblical lifespan of three score and 10.

It was 76 years from Washington's First Inaugural in 1789 to Lincoln's Second Inaugural in 1865. It was 76 years from the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865 to the attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Going backward, it was 76 years...

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