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To: joma89
".... They will accept your free stuff and then bite you in return...."

Reminds me of a time years ago when my wife and I owned a small farm in Oregon. We had a huge vegetable garden with rows and rows of string beans.

We had so many we couldn't handle them all so we advertised in the local shopper publication for "free green beans".

We got quite a few people stop and get their fair share. But one station wagon loaded with a family of the parents and six kids sticks in my memory.

They pulled up to the house, and we gave them, back then, kraft paper sacks from the grocery store to put the beans in that they picked. I told them they could pick all they wanted at no charge.

The parents looked at me in confusion. "You mean we have to pick them ourselves?"

Once they found out they had to work for their "free" green beans, they high-tailed it off the farm and back to their la-la land, wherever that was.

38 posted on 03/12/2019 6:10:24 AM PDT by HotHunt (Climate change is not an "inconvenient truth" but many convenient lies.)
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To: HotHunt
Once they found out they had to work for their "free" green beans, they high-tailed it off the farm and back to their la-la land, wherever that was.

And that is why Bernie Sanders got kicked out of the commune. An embarrassment to and a parasite upon the honest hippies, who at least thought it was authentic to get their hands dirty at honest labor. Bernie has a higher consciousness that doesn't involve work, which is why he thinks he is qualified to run the country.

57 posted on 03/12/2019 7:20:21 AM PDT by sphinx
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