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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Forget me, I'm not going to personalize this, I really am trying to 
completely understand what I am missing in what you are saying.

Many people, in cities , small towns, and rural areas alike, work very hard.  
Some doing brutal physical labor.  They have never known "sit-on-your-arse 
society".  I guess my point is that people who did sit-on-their-butt, who 
weren't responsible with their crdit; who were frivilous with their financial 
affairs, appear to be looking at ,in most cases,no worse future, &  in some 
instances, better future, than people who have toiled hardily and lived 
frugally. 

 Maybe I just see a different part of society, but I know people who have sat 
on their butts for most of their lives and  played the game, one way or the 
other. They aren't at all worried.  Worse case scenario, they take off for a 
couple of years to Europe, if they have squirrelled things in the right 
places; or to their U.S.  vacation houses, if they haven't.  They think they 
are going to lose money and have a simpler lifestyle for a while, but that's 
it.

On the other hand, I have 30 something year old cousins, who live closer to 
your neck of the woods than mine, work hard at two jobs, and could be 
devestated quickly by job loss.  I just don't understand how only lazy, 
carefree people are going to lose, if, as you say " It's real.  It's 
happening.  It's coming to a world near you."    ....bobf



----- Original Message ----
From: "Clansgian AT wmconnect.com" <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 6:20:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Wrong admission



> > I still have  relatives who live in rural areas. Many of them ,soon, will 
> be  really hurting .  I'm just trying to understand .

Then understand this above all:  The bailout will not change anything.  It 
might delay it a few weeks (oh, say, until after the election) but it will 
change nothing.  The bill is coming due for our sit-on-your-arse society and 
nothing in the end will forestall it.

It's real.  It's happening.  It's coming to a world near you.

I have realtives in the country too. And he message to them is: Here's a 
shovel, get out there this winter and prepare next spring's garden.  Learn a 
useful trade.  Learn how to do for yourself.  The posterior sitting culture 
is 
passing away and all the king's horses and all the king's men can't put it 
back 
together again,  </HTML>
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