Reply #15: Ya know something, Tom, even slaves on plantations were able to have dogs

[truedelphi]

At least until they were sold off that plantation. I don't mean to romanticize slavery, but many wage earners are pretty much slaves - work 40 hours a week for little in return, live in some nightmare of an apartment complex, and there's not much hope either.

We are now a nation of whom roughly 75% of us don't know if it is worth it to struggle through another crisis any more - if it is this bad today, what about tomorrow?

We accept that executives who make more than the combined salary of an entire hospital (2200 employees) can put into effect health insurance policies that are killing us. With no penalty to them, and plenty of penalty to us. The war goes on, the banks will go on to yet another round of tax payer funded bailouts, etc.

In the end all you have are your friends. And when you are impoverished, funny thing, but suddenly there are very few friends. Maybe one or maybe two if you are lucky.

In the end your spouse and your pets are about it.