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Date: Sep 13, 2006 14:27
"Goedjn" mail.uri.edu> wrote in message
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>>>I agree. I have relocated 3 times for better jobs. I have little
>>>sympathy
>>>for those who refuse to do so. Would I love to still live in rural WV?
>>>You
>>>bet! BUT, feeding my family is more important. Do I like the idea that
>>>I
>>>had to move to get better work? No, but feeding my family is more
>>>important.
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>>Of course you need a certain level of wealth and credit to be able to
>>move for work . . .
>
> Counter-proposal: You don't.
>
> (Unless you count $100 and a bus ticket as "wealth and credit")
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Author: Video61Video61 Date: Sep 13, 2006 14:49
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> Nonetheless, plenty made it to California and stayed,
> and even prospered compared to what they were doing in
> OK. The point is, your claim is demonstrably false.
> One need not have much money at all to relocate. No
> one claims it will be easy, and at first their lives
> may not appear appreciably better than they were when
> they were still wasting time in a place with no work.
gee i am hoping that i am not bursting any ones urban myths on
americas rugged individualism, and self reliance.
but it seems the unemployed got lots of help as they headed west, and
even got jobs finishing the highway that they travelled courtesy of the
new deal.
otherwise many western states got huge subsidies, far more than the
midwestern states, and the eastern states.
so maybe they did end up ok after all of that help.
http://www.national66.org/66hstry.html
History of Route 66
Why is this road so important to America?
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Author: Matthew BeasleyMatthew Beasley Date: Sep 13, 2006 14:56
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> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:18:53 -0400, Goedjn mail.uri.edu> wrote:
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>>>>I agree. I have relocated 3 times for better jobs. I have little
>>>>sympathy
>>>>for those who refuse to do so. Would I love to still live in rural WV?
>>>>You
>>>>bet! BUT, feeding my family is more important. Do I like the idea that
>>>>I
>>>>had to move to get better work? No, but feeding my family is more
>>>>important.
>>>
>>>
>>>Of course you need a certain level of wealth and credit to be able to
>>>move for work . . .
>>
>>Counter-proposal: You don't.
>> ...
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Author: Leif EriksonLeif Erikson Date: Sep 13, 2006 14:57
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:27:22 GMT, "Gil Faver" xxyz.com>
> wrote:
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> >>"Goedjn" mail.uri.edu> wrote in message
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>>>>>>>I agree...
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Author: Leif EriksonLeif Erikson Date: Sep 13, 2006 15:00
Matthew Beasley wrote:
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Author: Matthew BeasleyMatthew Beasley Date: Sep 13, 2006 15:13
comcast.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:18:53 -0400, Goedjn mail.uri.edu> wrote:
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>>>>I agree. I have relocated 3 times for better jobs. I have little
>>>>sympathy
>>>>for those who refuse to do so. Would I love to still live in rural WV?
>>>>You
>>>>bet! BUT, feeding my family is more important. Do I like the idea that
>>>>I
>>>>had to move to get better work? No, but feeding my family is more
>>>>important.
>>>
>>>
>>>Of course you need a certain level of wealth and credit to be able to
>>>move for work . . .
>>
>>Counter-proposal: You don't.
>> ...
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Author: GoedjnGoedjn Date: Sep 13, 2006 15:14
>>(Unless you count $100 and a bus ticket as "wealth and credit")
>
>A vast amount of Americans have trouble buying food and paying their
>bills. Your silly $100 and a bus ticket ignores that. You think what
>you can do from a comfortable middle class existence with a nice car,
>credit cards, etc is available to those living minimum wage existences
>is absurd and shallow.
I put in my time living in a sub-let 8' cube that used to be
a wardrobe so that I could afford to buy my 'house'. I'm
relatively well off now because I did the things that were
necessary to get here, and more to the point, DIDN'T do
many of the things that sabotage the effort.
If you've got the energy to whine about your problems,
you're not putting enough effort into solving them.
--Goedjn
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Author: Jim LedfordJim Ledford Date: Sep 13, 2006 15:27
Leif Erikson wrote:
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>> Now I'm gaining a better grasp why so many of the low pay jobs around where
>> I live are done by illegals. They seem to have little trouble relocating
>> their entire family here on practically nothing. The men come first and
>> shack up wherever they can. They spend little and send as much back home as
>> they can. Once enough is saved up, they bring the whole family.
>
> Once upon a time, before the entitlement mentality took
> hold in this country, ordinary Americans did that, too.
translation: Once upon a time, before the yankee mentality
took hold in this country, ordinary yankees did that, too.
raining here today, nice slow soft rain...
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Author: Leif EriksonLeif Erikson Date: Sep 13, 2006 15:51
Jim Ledford wrote:
> Leif Erikson wrote:
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>>>Now I'm gaining a better grasp why so many of the low pay jobs around where
>>>I live are done by illegals. They seem to have little trouble relocating
>>>their...
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Author: AnnAnn Date: Sep 13, 2006 16:44
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