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Re: What happened?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:15:07 GMT
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LPIENIAZEK@spamlessNOVERA.COM
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Jasper Janssen wrote:
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> On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 07:01:33 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
> wrote:
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> > And the fact that you don't have a gun in your house meant that every
> > day when the troops came by to drag your grandfather off to work even
> > though he didn't think it was safe, he went instead of resisting?
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> Have you ever heard of the concept "Jobs are not plentiful"?
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> Apparently not. Life for a working-class man in the 60's and 70s,
> especially with a child going through university, is not a picnic, and
> quitting usually just Is Not An Option.
Why were these jobs hard to come by? Perhaps it had something to do with
the government meddling in the economy trying to make jobs easy to come
by...
It's always easy to try to explain away courses of action after the fact
by citing excuses. Taking a stand and doing the right thing is not
always easy. In fact it's usually hard. But it can be done.
If you want to badly enough.
He didn't.
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| (...) Have you ever heard of the concept "Jobs are not plentiful"? Apparently not. Life for a working-class man in the 60's and 70s, especially with a child going through university, is not a picnic, and quitting usually just Is Not An Option. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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