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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 07:51 PM
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1. Because our grandparents worked till they died.
Because there was no retirement. There was no Social Security.

Because there were quotas on Jewish children in colleges and medical schools and law schools.

Because black children needn't bother to even apply.

Because girls weren't accepted into veterinary schools. And they couldn't get jobs better than secretary or receptionist.

Because you couldn't vote till 21, but you could be drafted at 18.

WTF do you mean, NOTHING WILL CHANGE????????? Are you that young or that insular or that dim that you don't know the world is NOTHING like it was for the people who live down below in America?

And I guess you never heard of slavery and indentured servitude and sweatshops.

Are you bitching because it won't come easy? Because everything we get is a battle with deaths?

What lazy, self-pitying do-nothing would say such a thing? And mean it?
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