M. Scott Morris: What Is, What Might Have Been

M. Scott Morris, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Sat, 08/20/2016 - 7:34am

M. SCOTT MORRIS Politics is a hobby of mine. My gateway drug probably was an episode of “20/20” about the spiraling national debt of the 1980s. It disturbed me, and I was only in my teens. A few years later, the debt bothered my grandmother, too. Mama Ree wrote letters to the editor about all of us gathering up our pennies, nickels and dimes to settle the U.S.

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