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To: silverleaf

The America we are entering will have two types of people: those with "significant holdings", who walk their dogs and eat when they please, and those without, who will spend their life picking up dog dirt for ... and serving meals to ...those with "significant holdings". My America was different, and I feel for the "have-nots", from whom the American dream has been taken.


82 posted on 02/04/2007 5:35:20 PM PST by Check6
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To: Check6

I have no ides of what you mean by "your America"

In "my America" my first ancestors arrived from Germany as indentured servants. They sold themselves to prosperous English settlers for 7 years of hard labor to earn passage to America.

Then within 10 years of earning the right to set up their own small livelihoods, they put everything on hold and walked back over the Allegheny mountains in Dec 1776 to join George Washington in New Jersey to fight for "my America"

For the next 150 years most of my ancestors spread manure over farmfields to grow food for "my America", with an occasional break to go back to a war fought for "my America". Of course, those who ate bread and meat mostly didn't realize the hard lonely farmer's contributions to "their America".

My mother was the first college grad in her line. She got a nursing degree and spent most of the 1950's changing bedpans for the sick and elderly of America. Held their hands when they died, too. Of course, this thankless work went on and she didn't like it, so instead of railing about the injustice of shift work spent cleaning up bedsores of those with "significant holdings" she got a second college degree and taught school.

Now at 82 my mother has "significant holdings", she eats out at a burger restaurant with her senior friends (retired nurses and teachers all) every Thursday and pays someone to deliver her food, and she also pays someone to clean her "significant holdings (her house and yard). That is "her "America"

I also am retired fro working since I was 15 and am one of those with "significant holdings"- I walk my dogs and eat when I please. Pick up the dog poop myself though, can't afford $75 a week for yard clean up by the "other America" nor can I afford $100-$150 for a 2-3 hour a week maid job by the "other America". Maybe when social security kicks in...

If one of my kids wants to earn his way through school by serving meals to people with "significant holdings" (as I did when I was younger)....and start his own small business picking up dog poop and then hiring employees to do it.... I say good for him. "his America" will be one where he makes his own choices and works for himself, not pulling a lever in some factory and expecting the union to get him $40 an hour for it.


84 posted on 02/05/2007 5:54:07 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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