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Posted by Animal on July 16, 2006 at 08:32:30 from (172.145.78.11):
In Reply to: Money, Money, Money posted by Dan in Ore on July 16, 2006 at 06:17:42:
These same values are instilled in our young folks today, modern day parents pay their kids to take out the trash and such, when I was a teen I wanted a car, nice clothes etc. my parents did not have the means to just give it to me, or if they did they most certainly would not have. To obtains these things we had to work for them and I mean hard work, I started thinning sugar beets at 11 years old and went from that to hay hauling moving irrigation pipe and working in potato warehouses, I always had nice things, but I knew the value and the sweat that it took to get them. Todays youth do not want for anything, my grand children included, and this makes me sick. I guess the point I am trying to make is that we as a nation especially with the stupid law suits have instilled that it is so much easier to slick some one out of money than to earn it,of which their is no pride or value of what a buck is worth. With fuel the price it is and the cost of lodging whether it be a camper or motel, it takes some kind of balls to charge an exhibitor, and I do not care if its an antique show, flower show or whatever any sort of an admission fee......Sir you are a much better man than I am for I would have been loaded and gone in two shakes of a lambs tail!
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