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"Some people have complained about the price, but I get complaints every year," he added.

The 500 Christmas trees he has to sell for about $10 per foot stand here in several inches of snow waiting for new owners. Despite bright sunshine it is bitterly cold, and Rusin is cheerful, not least because he still has this seasonal work after recently losing a full time job in a warehouse.

1 posted on 12/18/2008 6:16:07 PM PST by JoeProBono
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Despite bright sunshine it is bitterly cold, and Rusin is cheerful, not least because he

So...they're bitter and clinging to Christmas trees? Did Obama write this?

2 posted on 12/18/2008 6:18:35 PM PST by TheWasteLand
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God Bless our Troops!!

Merry Christmas!

3 posted on 12/18/2008 6:24:33 PM PST by Colonial Warrior (Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.)
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Ten dollars a foot is pretty steep. Of course this is Geneva, IL.


5 posted on 12/18/2008 6:28:51 PM PST by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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My old 6 foot Scotch pine fakey is up and shining for the 36th Christmas...

I bought it for $4...

We took it overseas with us too..

Good thing because the real ones in the BX were $100

The tree still looks good with all its decades old homemade, school made, Sunday school made treasures

:)


6 posted on 12/18/2008 6:30:45 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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In tough times, Americans cling to Christmas trees

At all times, Reuters clings to it's anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-capitalist agenda.

10 posted on 12/18/2008 6:37:48 PM PST by NewLand (What does 0bama know and when did he know it?)
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Obama: They cling to their guns and their religion.


11 posted on 12/18/2008 6:40:04 PM PST by Brilliant (wp)
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In tough times, Americans cling to Christ mas trees
13 posted on 12/18/2008 6:50:41 PM PST by Delta 21 ( MKC USCG - ret)
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Cling? Really.


15 posted on 12/18/2008 7:07:29 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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The last snow knocked down some pretty big branches from our white pines. Could just bring one of them in, but the kids wouldn’t go for it. “The shape’s all wrong.”

If I had the patience for it, we could have garlands galore and pine arches in every doorway - Christmas de luxe. But I don’t. More snow tomorrow, more branches down.

If you plant white pines, cut ‘em down by the time they’re 20 feet high or so.


17 posted on 12/18/2008 7:18:50 PM PST by heartwood (Tarheel in exile)
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When I do put up a Christmas tree, it’s an artificial one. It’s easier to manage.


18 posted on 12/18/2008 7:20:15 PM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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Some are even putting statues of Oprah’s Choice in the nativity scenes and around the trees. Americans are like the boy in the Reagan story about the horse inside the manure! Hopelessly naive or even deceitful


20 posted on 12/18/2008 8:51:29 PM PST by Theodore R. (The most frightening words in the English language: The American people!)
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We cling to trees, guns, and religion.


21 posted on 12/18/2008 8:57:27 PM PST by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find!)
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