Posted by
Bert Chapman on Tuesday, August 03, 2010 7:20:01 PM
Last Saturday my wife and I attended by 30 year high school class reunion. I'm originally from Marion, IN and I've enjoyed attending my high school class reunions on a regular basis since 1990. My class had 650 students when we graduated in May 1980 and went on to college, the workforce, and marrying and starting families. We've had victories and defeats and all that life can offer. There are some high school friends I keep in touch with fairly regularly and I saw them at this reunion. It was also wonderful to see classmates I had not seen for awhile. In fact, there were some I don't think I'd seen since we graduated. It was nice to reminisce and share past memories as well as current and future hopes and concerns in a positive environment. I particularly appreciated it when a classmate said she appreciated what I said in my controversial "economic consequences of homosexuality" blog posting several months ago. A number of people asked about my father who was a chemistry teacher at Marion High School when I attended there.
Some classmates looked almost like they did three decades ago, but with some you had to check their name tags to see who they were because their appearance did not match their high school yearbook picture which was on their name tags. High school can resurrect various memories for people. Although there were growing pains and negativity in some of my high school experience, I enjoyed it on the whole. Consequently, it's good every five years to get reacquainted with various classmates and reminisce.
Although three decades have passed there are some eerie political similarities between now and 1980. We had an incompetent Democratic President with a messiah complex then and that worm has returned to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC. Our economy was struggling with double digit inflation, high interest rates, and a Islamist terrorist regime in Iran. Today, we struggle with near double digit unemployment, accelerating budget deficits and national debt, and an administration that is afraid to forcefully confront the reality of Islamist terrorism and the leaking sieve that's become our southern border. Fortunately, November 1980 saw Ronald Reagan's providential election to the presidency and our economic situation and national security gradually improved thanks to Reagan Administration policies. We're stuck with Barack's Follies for over 2 years but we can do some congressional household cleaning in November by removing Obama's cronies from the House and Senate and sending full spectrum conservative reformers to these deliberative bodies to pursue policies that are beneficial to Americans, promote our national security, and restore fiscal probity while adhering to the highest ethical standards. Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters need not apply!