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To: GoldCountryRedneck

I don't know what it is. There are a few Freepers that are against "affluence" ... or enjoying wealth. It's disgusting.


47 posted on 10/11/2006 5:28:47 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (Never Forget)
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To: BunnySlippers

Don't run em off lets gently shepherd them into the light. I mean with ideas like that its amazing they aren't at the DU and voting for Ralph Nader.


54 posted on 10/11/2006 7:33:16 PM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: BunnySlippers; GoldCountryRedneck
I don't know what it is. There are a few Freepers that are against "affluence" ... or enjoying wealth. It's disgusting.

There do seem to be those who respect the work and sacrifice involved in becoming wealthy until one has actually become wealthy. From that point forward, in the eyes of only too many, he or she is either one of our "privileged" who doesn't know what "real work" means, or he or she is some sort of criminal.

Meanwhile, permit me to tell you of a pre-free agency era baseball player who also died in a small plane crash. His name was Ken Hubbs. Second baseman, Chicago Cubs. National League Rookie of the Year, 1962. Killed when his small plane went down over Utah before spring training 1964. The bitter irony: He took up flying, and came to love it, in order to conquer his original fear of flying.

The grotesque aftermath: When the Topps people rolled the presses on their 1966 baseball cards, the card for a Cubs pitcher named Dick Ellsworth turned out to have the most embarrassing mistake in the history of the hobby---the picture wasn't of Ellsworth but of Ken Hubbs.

77 posted on 10/12/2006 7:51:52 AM PDT by BluesDuke (My schizophrenic career has made my life no bed of neuroses.---Goodman Ace.)
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To: BunnySlippers
There are a few Freepers that are against "affluence..."

The word is e-n-v-y :)

I've got to get back to work to earn more of that "affluence"....

82 posted on 10/12/2006 2:11:46 PM PDT by GoldCountryRedneck ("It's never too late to have a happy childhood" - unknown)
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