[PAR35]

Well clearly she and her former boyfriend jumped the gun before marriage. We don’t know why they broke up. I wonder if dad will be involved.

No more retirement at 50. Folks would have to start working for a living. No government pensions or payroll unless the government started collecting taxes.

[faithhopecharity]

perhaps our Retiring-in-Youth Greek friends are just (selectively) reading their great legacy to us, the classics.... such as, " But at present we are studying the best constitution, and this is the constitution under which the state would be most happy, and it has been stated before that happiness cannot be forthcoming without virtue; [I]t is therefore clear from these considerations that in the most nobly constituted state, and the one that possesses men that are absolutely just, not merely just relatively to the principle that is the basis of the constitution, the citizens must not live a mechanic or a mercantile life (for such a life is ignoble and inimical to virtue), nor yet must those who are to be citizens in the best state be tillers of the soil（for leisure is needed both for the development of virtue and for active participation in politics.)" Aristotle, Politics 1328b-1329a