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nini

(16,830 posts)
16. It must be nice
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 06:14 PM
Dec 2016

but some of us are already helping care for aging parents, adult kids who were laid off back in 2009 etc.. It's not that easy to walk away when so many people are intertwined and depend on each other.

You don't have to put yourself on the street to keep fighting. My parents and grandparents lived through the Depression, fought for unions etc.. they didn't leave their jobs first to do that.. They did both at the same time.

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