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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (293)	9/1/2011 12:38:46 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Well, what you did say is that the post WWII generation would have gotten along just fine without the GI BIll and how do you propose to support that assertion? By saying that there was enough good paying union jobs at that time so that a working stiff (without his wife working) could support a family because if you did say that you'd be right! Contrast that to today where we need two wage earners scrambling like hamsters on a wheel to make ends meet---if a family is lucky enough to have two wage earners. Do you know why the isms arose? (Marxism, Communism, Nazism)? They arose out of the brutal economic conditions that concentrated wealth in the very few and gave the working man hardly enough to survive--from whence was born all labor movements. It finally took the realization that Government would have to be the referee between the struggle of capital and labor if nation building were to peacefully ensue. It took a couple of World Wars to finally figure this out and I'm afraid we're about to have relearn this all over again. There is dark dark future out there if we do have to relearn it.