Thursday, June 3, 2010

A lifetime of self reliance and accepting personal responsibility

The more our governments and their deficits grow, the more I think of my late mother-in-law.

A trained bookkeeper and armchair economist, she had ideas that could save the country some real money today. She came to America at 13, speaking only Yiddish. When she died some 70 years later, her Yiddish was still perfect. But so was her English.

That's because in the 1920s, teachers and parents did not know about diversity training and political correctness. So they placed her in classes with much younger English-speaking kids...


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