(Tia looks at the both the 80’s and the 90’s and compares the two on how one seems to be less caring than the preceding one. It is a degradation of morals being seen continuing on to the present where her words carry even more weight.) 

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Tia: yeah, now I could go on a dissertation on perjury and lying to Congress and stuff but I don’t have the time. I could also go into detail on the markets. I could go into detail on how the Lewinsky affair and the President's approval rate basically shows that nobody really cares anymore but alas, we don’t have the time.

Russ: well it’s all part of the moral degradation of society.

Tia: yep, that’s the way I see it. Question I have for you is, why don’t people care anymore huh?

Russ: well because there’s just so much out there to care about, you have to pick what you care about very carefully nowadays.

Tia: so in another words they’re all cared out?

Russ: yeah.

Tia: hmm.

Russ: no, they care about, very deeply about certain things and other things don’t care anything about.

Tia: yeah, it strikes me more along the lines of they talk about the ‘80s, the Reagan presidential thing as being the me time, what about me? It strikes me that the ‘90s seem to be more like that than the ‘80’s were.

Russ: hmm, it’s possible.

Tia: that the ‘80s weren't the time of greed, the ‘90s were or are. I mean if you look at it right? You have a president that does everything for himself. I want this, I want that and it strikes me that the Reagan presidency, comparing it, you can’t. Ronald Reagan was more helpful towards people, tried to do more for the people and to do it without self-satisfaction whereas this presidency seems to be everything is a crisis, everything is for the president. This strikes me more of the presidency of greed then the Reagan presidency. Far more the presidency of greed. And the thing is that in the ‘80s people cared about it, people cared about the presidency and the fact that when there was a scandal it was a big who ha ha whereas now, there seems to be a scandal on a daily basis and nobody cares.

Russ: well they don’t want to get Gore in as the president.

Tia: who knows?

Russ: yeah they'd just be fighting an incumbent battle, they don’t want to do that.