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'Strange isn't it. We think we're so smart. Our country has the world's “cheapest” food, the world's most sophisticated farmers, the Biggest Businesses in the world to process and distribute the food, the world's most extensive informational system ever (the most informed consumer!), and the world's Biggest Government police force to monitor food safety. Yet our highly sophisticated, Big-Government-regulated, Big-Business-food-production-and-processing machinery, consumer-driven society has strayed so far off course it can't deliver real food to the American public.' - Ted Slanker

True Story

A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston , and walked timidly without an appointment into the Harvard University President's outer office.

The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard & probably didn't even deserve to be in Cambridge ..

"We'd like to see the president," the man said softly.

"He'll be busy all day," the secretary snapped.

"We'll wait," the lady replied.

For hours the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go away.

They didn't, and the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the president, even though it was a chore she always regretted.

"Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they'll leave," she said to him!

He sighed in exasperation and nodded. Someone of his importance obviously didn't have the time to spend with them, and he detested gingham dresses and homespun suits cluttering up his outer office.

The president, stern faced and with dignity, strutted toward the couple.

The lady told him, "We had a son who attended Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus."

The president wasn't touched. He was shocked.

"Madam," he said, gruffly, "we can't put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery."

"Oh, no," the lady explained quickly. "We don't want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard."

The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun suit, then exclaimed, "A building! Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard."

For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. Maybe he could get rid of them now.

The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, "Is that all it cost to start a university? Why don't we just start our own? "

Her husband nodded. The president's face wilted in confusion and bewilderment.

Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where they established the university that bears their name, Stanford University, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them.

A TRUE STORY by Malcolm Forbes

"People will forget what you said; People will forget what you did.
But people will never forget how you made them feel." Amen

This Senior Citizen Nailed It!

THIS SENIOR CITIZEN NAILED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>>
>>>
>>> Alan Simpson, Senator from Wyoming, Co-Chair of Obama's deficit
>>> commission, calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he
>>> compared "Social Security" to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats.
>>> August, 2010.
>>>
>>> Here's a response in a letter from a unknown fellow in Montana... I
>>> think he is a little ticked off ! He also tells it like it is !
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Hey Alan, let's get a few things straight...
>>>
>>> 1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole for FIFTY
>>> YEARS.
>>>
>>> 2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15
>>> years old. I am now 63).
>>>
>>> 3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other
>>> Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for
>>> decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give
>>> OUR money to a bunch of zero ambition losers in return for votes, thus
>>> bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme
>>> that would have made Bernie Madoff proud.
>>>
>>> 4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and your ilk pulled the
>>> proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing
>>> retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to
>>> age 67. NOW, you and your shill commission is proposing to move the
>>> goalposts YET AGAIN.
>>>
>>> 5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare
>>> from Day One, and now you morons propose to change the rules of the
>>> game. Why? Because you idiots mismanaged other parts of the economy to
>>> such an extent that you need to steal money from Medicare to pay the
>>> bills.
>>>
>>> 6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our
>>> entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why?
>>> Because you incompetent bastards spent our money so profligately that
>>> you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come
>>> to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.
>>>
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>> To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bullshit" on
>>> your incompetence. Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for
>>> YOU.
>>>
>>> 1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during
>>> your pathetic 50-year political career?
>>>
>>> 2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and
>>> how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the
>>> American taxpayers?
>>>
>>> 3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?
>>>
>>> 4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you
>>> proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or, as usual,
>>> have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?
>>>
>>> It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators who are
>>> "greedy". It is you and they who have bankrupted America and stolen the
>>> American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for
>>> what? Votes. That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America
>>> > for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic political careers.
>>> > You
>>> know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.
>>>
>>> And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bitch."
>>>

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