I say we take the oil. I don't think people realize the super-crisis mode the North Country is in. When you talk about the cost of fuel oil and how it hits a family, our average family income is half what it is down in southern New Hampshire.
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Re: Re: A Love Letter from Garden Gnome, or Why I Hate the Baby Boomers
25 May 2008
Date Edited: 25 May 2008 09:45:28 PM
As far as the parents of baby boomers all being right-wingers, if that is so, than why did some of the greatest examples of welfare capitalism and entitlement programs have their birth under their watch?
Furthermore, your assertion about the parents of the baby boomers having "made them what they are through physical, sexual, emotional abuse and neglect," is a bizarre combination of prejudices, as it were. There is no evidence to suggest that abuse of any kind was more prevalent in previous eras than it is today. The only difference between now and then is that we now talk about abuse in public and make meager efforts as a society to combat it. Some people even think that there is more abuse today than there was in previous times. This of course, is also untrue.
Your claim that "Boys, in fact, were always victims of this abuse to a much greater extent", makes me think that you are some kind of weird leftist/men's rights activist hybrid. I hate child abuse as much as the next person, but I also hate "DEAR GOD< WHAT ABOUT THE MEN??!!??!" arguments with equal passion.