[opendtv] Re: 20050926 Mark's Monday Memo
- From: Doug McDonald <mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:40:28 -0500
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>
>
>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.
>
>
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?
>
>
>
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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