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To: MNDude

Here is an issue going unreported in the MSM.

Here in FL we have a destroyed construction industry. Many men are working 2 days a week instead of 5. They get paid by the hour so they have no cash.

My son has told me many of the young and middle age men are coming into work and they have no food, haven’t been able to eat. There are a lot of them that are divorced with kids, so they have child support to pay and that leaves them nothing to live on.

My son’s been quite upset about it. We’ve fed a few of them.


35 posted on 07/28/2011 7:40:56 AM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: I still care

I feel for those guys like crazy, but I bet you that the kids of these hard working construction workers are NOT getting thin an starving.

Growing up, my parents had some really tight times between times of employment. We kids had nearly exclusively cream of wheat for breakfast and a peanut butter sandwich for lunch.


39 posted on 07/28/2011 7:47:44 AM PDT by MNDude (so that's what they meant by Carter's second term)
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To: I still care

I’m asking because I don’t know. They can’t get unemployment or any kind of aid? There seem to be many programs out there available. I know it’s tough economics right now, and I’m not sure it’s going to get better. I think now is the time to be prepared to tough times, whatever you have to do.


52 posted on 07/28/2011 8:34:13 AM PDT by brytlea (Someone the other day said I'm not a nice person. How did they know?)
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