[Gay State Conservative]

It's amazing how middle class Westerners of today can do things that even the rich couldn't do 100 years ago.I,a guy who's neither rich *nor* poor,have visited places that many of the richest Westerners of 100 years didn't visit.I've had medical conditions...conditions that were easily cured...that would have crippled,or killed,Rockefeller 100 years ago.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

middle class Westerners of today can do things that even the rich couldn't do 100 years ago. I, a guy who's neither rich *nor* poor, have visited places that many of the richest Westerners of 100 years didn't visit.I've had medical conditions...conditions that were easily cured...that would have crippled,or killed,Rockefeller 100 years ago.

I too would’ve been dead over ten years ago, of an ailment that would’ve killed anyone 100 years earlier. Thus, we don’t simply want “quality medical care” for ourselves (as Hillary would have it), we want continuous improvement for our grandchildren to have as much better health care than we do, as we have better than our grandparents. And that, socialism can scarcely even pretend to deliver. Socialism is all about limiting inputs and spreading the resulting misery equally.

[xp38]

The smartphone itself is something no one had a hundred years ago. Love it or hate it it can do so many things undreamed of back then and it has become almost universal. Yes there are drawbacks to it but judicious use of it can be a boon. One can even read FR with it....something else that didn’t exist 100 years ago.