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On 5/24/25 14:30, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/24/25 13:43, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 5/24/2025 2:58 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/24/25 12:16, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>> On 5/22/2025 4:47 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>>>> In article <SwLXP.1070635$C51b.70661@fx17.iad>,
>>>>> Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:
>>>>>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>>> On 5/22/2025 11:09 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Social Security and Medicare will not die until the financial 
>>>>>>> apocalypse
>>>>>>> of the United States.  Pray that it does not happen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You are not paying attention.  The just passed big ugly bill cuts
>>>>>> a half-trillion dollars from  medicare.  Not to mention the gutting
>>>>>> of medicaid, which will cause many rural hospitals to close outright.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5312712-house-gop-bill- 
>>>>>> medicare- cuts/
>>>>>
>>>>> Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
>>>>
>>>> We are not China where the families sell their young teens to the 
>>>> factories for $5,000.  At least, not yet.
>>>>
>>>> Lynn
>>>>         No we send our young teens to work in poultry packing plants
>>> and in other dangerous and unhealthy jobs.  In case you had not heard
>>> Southern states particularly are repealing Child Labor laws, after 
>>> all what
>>> is there to do with all that learning after the 8th Grade?
>>>
>>>      bliss
>>
>> Somebody has to work those poultry plant jobs.  At least they are paid 
>> $16/hour and get to go home at night.  Or the morning if they are 
>> working the graveyard shift, been there, done that driving home 35 
>> miles east into the rising Sun at 730am.
>>
>> Lynn
> 
>      When you worked at the  poultry plant were you 12 years old Lynn?
> 
>      Kids belong in school even if they do not think so.  Someone was 
> working at the poultry packing plants but ICE carried them away to 

> rot in San Salvador.
> 
> I was working in my family's restaurant peeling potatoes and washing 
> dishes, pots
> and pans when I was 12 -18 but that was in the 1940s and 1950s.  
> But that was in the summer and
> after school if some of what I was good at needed doing.
> 
>      bliss

	Just a simple correction of word to work. And the addition of my ages to
the post.
	
	bliss - going back to bed shortly I think...