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To: Travis McGee
Don't smugly laugh at their plight, use it as a lesson for yourself. What if YOUR power were to go out for one month, how well would YOU do?

So in addition to providing the elderly with Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and lord knows what else, because THEY CHOOSE to live in hurricane country, we're supposed to drop everything because they didn't get extra water delivered at the start of hurricane season? And didn't a couple cases of canned food in the pantry and extra meds? Cripes, Wilma gave everyone TWO EXTRA DAYS to get ready. Earthquakes and tornadoes aren't nearly so curteous.

What I see are people who fought in WWII who have gotten so used to the government taking care of their every need that they have lost the ability to take MODEST steps to care for their own well-being.

119 posted on 10/26/2005 2:09:35 PM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: dirtboy

I'm not saying any of that. I'm just surprised at the almost gleeful piling on going on here. We're talking about fellow Americans in unfortunate, difficult straits, and lots of freepers seem to be jeering their plight.


120 posted on 10/26/2005 2:13:57 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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