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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (42653)	6/29/1999 7:45:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 108807

Get off your high horse, Christine. In many cases child labor is good. It certainly helped many of those families who were struggling to get an economic foothold in this country. And what of the children who worked the farms from 4 AM until sundown -- as many still do? And what of the children across Europe that were forced -- by their families -- to do backbreaking labor and earned no wages at all? I myself lied about my age and had my first job at a MacDonald's when I was 12 years old. Before that I had a newspaper route, had my own lawn-cutting business, ran a neighborhood "movie" theater out of my parents' garage, sold big bags of salty popcorn for a nickel and small Dixie cups of Kool-Aid with a large ice cube for a quarter. Made a LOT of money on that Kool-Aid... the popcorn was a loss leader (and VERY, VERY well-salted! - heh-heh). I didn't need a business license. It was all cash business. I paid no taxes and made thousands of dollars. I also learned basic business principles and had a helluva lot of fun. During the summer I was 15, I got a job in a warehouse (they thought I was 17) and worked in sweltering, high humidity, doubleshifts, 16-hour days. It was hard physical labor and I had many happy times there. I saved a lot of the money to purchase my first car when I turned 16: a Corvette convertible. There is much more to many issues than your narrow, artificial point of view. I don't blame you though, the federal government is also populated with many who hold narrow, artificial points of view. Unfortunately they often force the rest of us to live with their tunnel-vision. FT