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To: Intolerant in NJ

They’re good, they have actually convinced some people that Obama has cut the deficit in half and reduced the debt at the same time. People believe what they want to believe, some believe that people who live on food stamps and other bennies, own nothing but have a smart phone and a big television are somehow better off than my grandfather who used to own hundreds of acres of land and timber and produced food for his large family on his own soil. He didn’t have a cellphone or a computer so somehow he wasn’t doing as well as modern wellfare bums. His sons could finish eighth grade and go to work at fourteen and wind up as married land and home owners with families but somehow they didn’t do as well as the young people of today who finish college and still live with their parents and have a huge student loan debt. They didn’t have a college degree you know so they were obviously ignorant and uneducated in spite of the fact that recent college graduates could not pass the eighth grade final that my father’s generation passed in the thirties. If I sound disgusted with what is going on now it is only because I am. If I were starting out young today I probably would wind up in prison. I truly feel sorry for young people now.


31 posted on 10/09/2015 5:15:11 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: RipSawyer
I truly feel sorry for young people now...have to agree, sadly - sounds as though we're about the same generation - we were lucky to have come of age during a period of prosperity, strength, and optimism in this country that helped make it the greatest nation that had ever been - before the government got involved in practically every phase of life and the economy, before the "social revolution" of the 60's trashed the culture and practically destroyed morality, before people started choosing leaders based on their entertainment value and not their ability and merit - such times as we had are probably gone forever, and the country is all the poorer for it.....
41 posted on 10/09/2015 9:29:12 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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