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   toasteroven said, about 1 month ago

   I have a feeling that very few mothers say things like “Study hard so you can compete in a global economy!”

   They might say “Study hard so you can maybe avoid working 40 years in a factory at starvation wages!” At least, that’s what my grandfather said to me, more or less.

   His phrasing may have been slightly more obscene, though.

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   Fairportfan2 said, about 1 month ago

   My Dad wanted to go into the building trades like his father, uncle and cousins.

   My grandfather (who had missed being laid off by Chicago Edison by about five seniority numbers in the Great Depression) said to forget it - there had been regular downswings in the trades for as long as he could recall, and my Dad was going to be a professional.

   So Dad went to U of I (where he met my mother) and became an accountant.

   Don’t know how accountants are doing right now, but i know the trades are in trouble.

   Again.

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   furnituremaker said, about 1 month ago

   my dad was a rancher in Texas…he used to say “Study hard and go to college so you don’t have to work like I do”…shucks, all I ever wanted to be was a rancher, so I majored in Ranch management…he sold the ranch, and I became aa contractor…wish they’d had trade schools back then.

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   motivemagus said, about 1 month ago

   charlie555, that made no sense whatsoever. I work in the “global economy,” if you want to count international management consulting. Hardly servile.

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   meowdam said, about 1 month ago

   That Chinese “coolie ” pigtail is a little racist .

   40% of Fox viewers still think the kid was in the balloon !

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   DrCanuck said, about 1 month ago

   meowdam, that just broke me up!

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   believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

   ^^ very good!

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   comYics said, about 1 month ago

   Lol.

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   M Henri Day said, about 1 month ago

   Meowdam, I fear you’re being unjustly hard on Ms Wilkinson. The «Chinese ‘coolie’ pigtail» was a hair style (which also involved the shaving of the front of the head) imposed on Han Chinese men to show their subservience to their Manchu rulers - queues were not required of women. The woman in the cartoon would seem to be wearing an entirely apolitical ponytail….

   Henri