As the United States government betrayed treaties and encroached upon American Indians' lands, I imagine that the Indians on the periphery must have thought something like, "The end is near."
Of course I just finished reading several articles about how Obama plans to "save" the economy with socialism.
Socialism as the solution? That's like medicine going back to bloodletting.
Will the government subsidize the up-and-coming leach industry?
"No more of that talk or I'll put the fuckin' leeches on ya!" --Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas c. 1971)
ReplyDeleteIt was a joke stemming from their severe intoxication. Someday soon, to paraphrase a fictionalized Clarence Darrow, 'we'll be marching, backward, backward!' until it becomes a serious medical recommendation.