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See the Detroiter with 21-mile walking commute get a surprise new car
Yahoo - Motoramic ^
| 2/6/15
| Justin Hyde
Posted on 02/06/2015 1:59:56 PM PST by Kartographer
Upon getting the car and the key, a dealership employee hopped in the passenger seat to help him get re-acclimated to driving (starting with a button now, and such.) Then Robertson left — because despite all the attention, he still had to get to his 2 p.m. factory shift on time, and nothing stops James Robertson.
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How many would have stood around and milked it for all it was worked? Yet he gets in his car and heads to his $10.00 an hour job!
To: Kartographer
This week I heard that people on the internet had already pledged over $150,000. Hope he got something nice.
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posted on
02/06/2015 2:01:27 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
To: Kartographer
Wish we still had many millions like him, as we did in 1960, but we don’t, do we?
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posted on
02/06/2015 2:03:24 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
To: a fool in paradise
He got better than $300,000 and the banker friend set him up with someone to help him keep it.
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posted on
02/06/2015 2:04:17 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: a fool in paradise
I hope that he got something he can afford.
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posted on
02/06/2015 2:04:29 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: DJ MacWoW
If he did get $300,000, what can’t he afford?
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posted on
02/06/2015 2:06:02 PM PST
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I think there are more like him than we know. I’ve met quite a few like him in Detroit.
They tend to be middle aged or older but they are there.
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posted on
02/06/2015 2:06:04 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: Kartographer
All I’ve got to say to the scumbags who protest for $15 per hour to work at McDonald’s part time is ‘you clowns should be ashamed of yourselves.’
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posted on
02/06/2015 2:09:38 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: Kartographer
He is modest, has a great sense of humor and a drive/work ethic deserving the attention and reward.
Bravo.
Perhaps his story will inspire the next generation...we can certainly use a lot more like him!
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posted on
02/06/2015 2:09:47 PM PST
by
wtd
To: Jonty30
If he got that much then he can afford insurance and upkeep but that wasn’t the last figure that I had read.
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posted on
02/06/2015 2:09:57 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: Kartographer
" Already, the city of Detroit has promised to boost a program it has for giving public transit to people like Robertson; it had sat on more than $1 million in federal grants for years without using them"
To: All
I haven’t read this story, but walking 21 miles would take about 7 hours.
Average walking speed is 2.80 to 2.95 MPH
Is that 21 miles round trip?
Even then, I find this story might be a bit suspect.
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posted on
02/06/2015 2:12:47 PM PST
by
Rodney Dangerfield
(Why did Nero fiddle while Rome burned? Because Golf hadn't been invented yet.)
To: DJ MacWoW
He was given a car by a Ford dealer.
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posted on
02/06/2015 2:13:06 PM PST
by
FrdmLvr
("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
In 1960 Detroit was a way nicer place, and THIS is why.
To: FrdmLvr
Yup. I watched the video. :-)
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posted on
02/06/2015 2:18:10 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: wtd
I noticed he speaks without the usual ebonics.
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posted on
02/06/2015 2:18:17 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
A thread from earlier in the week if anyone is interested in reading the comments thereon:
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posted on
02/06/2015 2:18:19 PM PST
by
deport
To: Rodney Dangerfield
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posted on
02/06/2015 2:20:31 PM PST
by
deport
To: Rodney Dangerfield
“The FReeper doth protest too much, methinks”
You know sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
At 56 I think he is doing damn well!
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posted on
02/06/2015 2:25:56 PM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: a fool in paradise
He got a sensible Ford Taurus. I think the choice makes him shine that much more!
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posted on
02/06/2015 2:27:44 PM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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