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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zeta1961 who wrote (17218)	4/11/2008 11:44:05 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

Whenever the rat got busted, mom and dad bailed him out. Try that in the ghetto. Some folks here are showing some degree of naivite. Everyone in the USA should be required to watch the Wire from beginning to end to get a feel for what its really like. Below some words that always come to mind when folks dismiss the inner cities of america. youtube.com Now suzanne takes you hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From salvation army counters And the sun pours down like honey On our lady of the harbour And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers There are heroes in the seaweed There are children in the morning They are leaning out for love And they will lean that way forever While suzanne holds the mirror

To: zeta1961 who wrote (17218)	4/11/2008 11:47:37 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Financially, not after I graduated from college. My choice. Makes life too EZ. Which is why I worked so hard to get wherever it is I am before Mom dies. Didn't make my plans on what I might inherit. Didn't borrow money from them, but did use them as co-signers on my first house. (Actually, when I was buying it, Dad fessed up that my grandmother had given each of us 4K in savings bonds, and he borrowed it without telling us :>) In HS, "everybody" had a car. And, in my school, some of the kids had better cars than the teachers. (Among others, the Eitel Bros of Eimac ('vettes, eh?), twins of the prez of Varian, sons of pres of Ampex; and down the road at Palo Alto HS, Walt Hewlett, I think #5 in the mile in Calif). But, I digress. Dad told us he would get us a car when we graduated from college, or we could go out and earn our own. I did, 2 summers into college. Other than that, well...my old bedroom was still available when my house burned down. And, the first time I went back after my divorce, it struck me that here I was, 30 years later, headed home for a hug to mend a broken heart and a washing machine, just like in school :>)