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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (78843)	8/31/2011 12:46:44 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 217917

WOW!!! youtube.com I was raised on Johnny Cash and Harry Belefonte.. am partial to Dwight now.. but I will always love Johnny and Hank... What folks say... don't matter to me :O) The Ride this Train album was gospel in our house.. funny for a half Chinaman (my dad) LOL OK nice tune... but blonds (except Marilyn) need to work 5 times harder in m book... :o) youtube.com

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (78843)	8/31/2011 2:21:16 AM
From: Snowshoe	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217917

One of my favorite movie themes... youtube.com

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (78843)	8/31/2011 9:09:05 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217917

Southerners fought the Civil War like crazy because the Industrial Revolution had not yet brought machines to replace human labor. Southern plantation owners could not imagine how to survive economically without slaves. And, in point of fact, when slavery was abolished, the economy perished, so, in truth, they did not survive abolition, economically. To them, it was an existential struggle. Not a justification, not an excuse, just a fact. The production of, say, cotton, by unfree labor was shifted elsewhere, e.g., India and Egypt, and we could look at coolie labor, as well. Unfree labor continues to this date. Debt bondage, human trafficking, sharecropping, etc. Fighting like crazy to preserve the right to exploit others is entirely inconsistent with the belief in freedom. One of life's little paradoxes. Still, as one of the minority who actually pays taxes to support the ones who don't -- hmmmm. Why? What would happen if we just said no?