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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 03:11 PM
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1. I don't know about The South, but when my late father was a teenager during ...
Edited on Wed Jan-20-10 03:11 PM by ShortnFiery
The First Great Depression of the 1930s, he helped save his family's South Dakota farm by going into the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCCs) in Rapid City at the tender age of 16 y.o. Each month, $20 was sent back to his family and he could keep $5 for his living expenses.

Today, we need similar PROGRAMS to put people back to work if the corporate raiders are going to keep all the manufacturing jobs oversees.
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