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This is to Brenda: OK, I read your diatribe, here is my reply. I am 79, and have lived an amazing life. I have traveled Route 66 five times and met some great, hard-working people along the way. I have visited the Caribbean several times and learned how to properly dangle my feet off the bridge while drinking a rum sour and listening to the wonderful steel drums. I have hiked through the mountains of California ... even fished and caught a few good ones. Brenda, there were times when I worked three jobs a week; my regular, an afterwork one and one more at night (a drive-in checking out the cars as they came in to see the movie). Times I worked OT every day except Sunday. BUT, never, never, never did anyone tell me I had to do this or I had to do that. From 16 to 18 years on, you are your own person. Stop this "they make you do this" stuff! What country are your from? America and freedom is not easy but make the most of what you have.

10-25-2011 @ 2:02PM

tony said...

Sorry, Ann. Shirley is right. I left a promising military career to pursue the American Dream, only to discover that the government (at all levels) has made it unachievable for all but the luckiest or ethnically privileged few. It's not an opinion. It's a fact!

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