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To: Alter Kaker
According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, a white male child born in 1850 had a life expectancy of 38.3 years. Yes... healthy!

38.3 years gloriously free of busybody nanny-staters (and federal income tax).

I would trade for that in a minute.

239 posted on 10/17/2006 9:10:51 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: elkfersupper
38.3 years gloriously free of busybody nanny-staters (and federal income tax). I would trade for that in a minute.

38.3 years of grueling hard labor from sun up to sun down. 38.3 years of no electricity, no central heating, no running water, no toilets, no showers, no cars, no movies, no television, no radio, no antibodies, no refrigeration, no canned goods, no air conditioning, no travel beyond 15 miles from your home, no photographs, no department stores, no supermarkets, no fruit or vegetables in the winter, no telephones, only having 50% of your babies make it to age 2, no sewer systems, no police protection, no emergency rooms. Indian attacks, dysentery, smallpox, polio, plague, fleas, lice, - yes it must have been a GREAT life, topped off by dying of old age at 40!

You can have it - I'll take this life, even with all its problems.

312 posted on 10/18/2006 6:07:16 AM PDT by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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