Bob Buster Adcock (friends with Mel Hawkins) commented on your status.

Bob Buster wrote: "Certainly the free market is better at determining value than a government managed economy. Privileged? My paternal grandmother died when my father was twelve, my dad dropped out of school and went to work at Kilby Steel to help support his three younger siblings. My mom was a South Georgia farm girl who became a single mom and that was really frowned on in 1938 (and should be today), she moved to Baltimore to go to nursing school, and of course to escape the shame in the small farm community. She did manage to become an RN. Dad was a good steel worker and was recruited by Bethlehem Steel in Baltimore, where my parents met. They both worked hard and lived within their means and managed to rise from their beginnings. So I was raised in a stable middle-class family and was taught that I was responsible for myself. When I think about it that did give me a privileged start and that's why I had a job of some sort, starting with a minimum wage job at fourteen that taught me the value and responsibility of work, until I retired. While my wife of forty-four years and I are certainly not wealthy we are comfortable. So, yes I'm privileged to have been born in this wonderful country where people are free to determine their own outcomes." - Reply to this email to comment on this status. facebook Bob Buster Adcock (friends with Mel Hawkins) commented on your status. Bob Buster wrote: "Certainly the free market is better at determining value than a government managed economy. Privileged? My paternal grandmother died when my father was twelve, my dad dropped out of school and went to work at Kilby Steel to help support his three younger siblings. My mom was a South Georgia farm girl who became a single mom and that was really frowned on in 1938 (and should be today), she moved to Baltimore to go to nursing school, and of course to escape the shame in the small farm community. She did manage to become an RN. Dad was a good steel worker and was recruited by Bethlehem Steel in Baltimore, where my parents met. They both worked hard and lived within their means and managed to rise from their beginnings. So I was raised in a stable middle-class family and was taught that I was responsible for myself. When I think about it that did give me a privileged start and that's why I had a job of some sort, starting with a minimum wage job at fourteen that taught me the value and responsibility of work, until I retired. While my wife of forty-four years and I are certainly not wealthy we are comfortable. So, yes I'm privileged to have been born in this wonderful country where people are free to determine their own outcomes." Reply to this email to comment on this status. See Comment     See Your Notifications This message was sent to fgilkeson.lumpkinwatchdog@blogger.com. If you don't want to receive these emails from Facebook in the future, please unsubscribe. Facebook, Inc., Attention: Department 415, PO Box 10005, Palo Alto, CA 94303