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Re: Old Reb Offers Butt-Kicking Service to Mine Ow

LOL, yeah I hear that Paul. Don't think you'll get a resounding endorsement from anyone else on the board though. Amens will be few and far between. Another point to make is this, my father-in-law can remember when they payed miners in Appalachian with script...not cash, coin of the realm, dollars... and you bought it all, as Tennessee Ernie said, at the company store,. I remember hearing this from him about 1980...I thought he had been drinking too much wine, working and not getting paid money for it? Outrageous, but true and he had done that in his life time, not that long ago. Hey Paul, I guess cheap(free) labor is hard to get. Of course now we got the Mexicans here illegaly with their diseases and social service visits.

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