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To: RetiredNow who wrote (54772)	5/22/2009 11:27:21 AM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 149317

maybe all that money engenders the feeling of 'entitlement'. send 'em on down for a dose of reality. sorry if I sounded snippish. I figured you were speaking of the 'well-off'. most us folks work our backs till they ache. makes a person appreciate a few hundred a month. and a warm room in winter. not to mention a fan in august. :)

To: RetiredNow who wrote (54772)	5/22/2009 11:34:24 AM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

btw, Mindmeld - I was an... I reckon upper-middle class child. but my father was the son of a dirt farmer from Alabama. And he sent me there to learn. I cleared ditches in summer with a swing-blade under my granny's glare, and picked berries, and dug potatoes, and etc. For an 'executive rich man' he was rather evil? smile. He made me realize what it meant to sit on that screened in front porch at the end of a long day and have my granny bring me a glass of sweet tea, with a blackberry cobbler in the oven, and tell me I'd done good. I was the 'rich California grandchild' so that was an especially big deal. we ain't entitled. and I don't know about the people you know. but I sure wasn't raised that way. I got sent to the daym farm.