[blam]

"When I was born in 1938 my father was working, cutting cross ties for the railroad, in river bottom where work began on site at sunup and ended at sundown, six mile walk both ways, the pay was 50 cents a day. "

I was born in 1943 and my mother told me (dad wouldn't talk about it) how my dad did the same as your father except he was plowing behind a one horse plow from sun-up to sun-down.
My grandmother (mothers mother) would give a free breakfast to who-ever chopped her cooking wood for the day each morning.
She had to change that because they kept coming earlier and earlier to beat the next guy there for the meal and were waking everyone chopping wood at 3:00AM.
My dad did tell me how they had to hide the plow down the water well when the bank came to repossess it.

[blam]

"As for Obama being toast - don't bet on it, especially if the GOP nominates one of the few people who could turn off enough conservative voters to give Obama a second term. "

Rubio as VP would draw most conservatives and most Hispanics to vote for the GOP.

Obama is toast!

[CommieCutter]

"When I was born in 1938 my father was working, cutting cross ties for the railroad, in river bottom where work began on site at sunup and ended at sundown, six mile walk both ways, the pay was 50 cents a day. "

I was born in 1943 and my mother told me (dad wouldn't talk about it) how my dad did the same as your father except he was plowing behind a one horse plow from sun-up to sun-down.

My grandmother (mothers mother) would give a free breakfast to who-ever chopped her cooking wood for the day each morning.

She had to change that because they kept coming earlier and earlier to beat the next guy there for the meal and were waking everyone chopping wood at 3:00AM.

My dad did tell me how they had to hide the plow down the water well when the bank came to repossess it.

I can't even begin to imagine this..

[autumnraine]

My very Christian (and wife of a preacher) told me many times that the only time she ever stole a thing in her life was a chicken from a neighbor because they were so hungry. She said God made that bird so dang tough, they could barely chew it.

If things were bad enough for my 20 year old grand mother to steal food... I don’t even want to know how bad it was.