To: Fred Nerks
Between the age of 5 and 11, my great grandfather would rise early, milk the cows, walk 5 miles to the lead mine, put in a 10 or 12 hour day, walk home, milk the cows and call it a day. That work in the lead mine was compensated at the rate of less than 1 US dollar in today's currency. At age 11, he sprouted up and was too big to get into the mine. He was assigned sheep herding duties. The rest of the family were butchers, tailors and cobblers. Both of his parents died from tuberculosis. His father at age 1 and mother at age 9. He escaped that life in Wales and worked in Liverpool until he was old enough to sign on as ship's company to come to the United States. He arrived in 1863 and promptly joined the US Army. When the Civil War ended, he returned to Pittsburgh, PA and married his fiancee from Aberystwyth. They raised 19 children. Engineers. Farmers. Most earned 4 year degrees. Some went further. None of them had success handed to them. They worked for it. Success is not a gift. It is the reward for work well done.
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07/31/2012 11:24:32 PM PDT by
Myrddin
To: Myrddin
It’s pure marx/leninism, it doesn’t have to be logical, all it has to do is create as much envy and hatred as possible. If it didn’t, then they would all get some kind of work, like we did, and never dream that someone owed them a living. There’s the power there to destroy the nation, as did the bolsheviks.
Marxists never stop. Parisites, they have that in common with islam.
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