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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Scumbria who wrote (142998)5/6/2001 2:28:07 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
None of us were around to watch my wife's grandfather come over from France. He was penniless and other relatives were indentured servants. He worked for the "prevailing" wage as there was no "minimum. He ended up farming, finally quitting in 1955, having made it through the depression and raising 2 kids and helping who knows how many relatives along the way. He cleared $50K his last year farming and his son taking over the operation was able to send all 4 of his children to private schools, among them Stanford and USC. Many of my relatives came out from Oklahoma after the dust bowl to work in the fields of the Central Valley. Relatives on the other side in my wife's family farmed in the midwest and were happy to break even. They came to the West Coast eventually with the help of members of their family.

This country is a place where you can struggle and succeed. Whatever you imply with your statement about migrants, it doesn't resonate with many. The words are just hollow divisive rhetoric. Our parents said hard work will never kill us and we believed it. What is worthwhile in life without a struggle?

My wife said the one thing that really pissed her off was finding out that her back operation (paid by insurance) in 1979 cost more than her college education (15K vs. 10K) and that the same operation had cost her brother and sister about $1000 (not paid by insurance) 15 years earlier.
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