[opendtv] Re: 20050926 Mark's Monday Memo

Craig Birkmaier wrote:

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>Having lived through at least six hurricanes when I was growing up in 
>South Florida in the '60s, I am forced to wonder how the hell we got 
>through all of this without the assistance of the Federal Government. 
>There were no billion dollar no-bid contracts from FEMA to help with 
>clean-up. I got $2-3 an hour to help clean up the neighborhood. 
>Within a day or two of the storm I would pile up huge mounds of 
>debris - piles 10 feet wide and 3o feet long in front of each house. 
>Like magic they would be gone in a day or two. LAst year after 
>Francis I put a similar pile in front of my house in Gainesville. It 
>too six weeks for the local government agencies to figure out how to 
>clean it up, with assistance from FEMA.
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>

The difference is that the 60's were when tax money went for 
infrastructure and
service, not WELFARE. That's all there is to it. The left wingers have won.


>So many things have changed in the past fifty years. How the hell did 
>we ever survive without big brother to lend a hand?
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We all know how! Big Brother **DID** lend a hand to all of us, in those 
days,
in the unseen and unsung form of infrastructre. Today they want a very 
"seen" hand ...
to the special people at the welfare trough.

Doug McDonald
 
 
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