--- In Spinalcordinjury@yahoogroups.com, "Wendy Sell" <wps1@...>
wrote:before you start complaining visit Africa then u will know u are
lucky to see a doctor because it takes us a week just to see a doctor
or even more.
nothing is free here,
u don't know what war is and all you do is complain.
we would like to be home any day if only the wars stopped.
i cant imagine thats how bad u feel in helping someone
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> I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it
with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of
the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food. But then the
birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the
table, and next to the barbecue.
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> Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the
chairs, the table...everywhere. Then some of the birds turned mean:
They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them
out of my own pocket. And others birds were boisterous and loud: They
sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day
and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food.
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> After a while, I couldn't even sit on my own back porch anymore.
I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I
cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all
over the patio. Soon, the back yard was like it used to be...quite,
serene and no one demanding their rights to a free meal.
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> Now let's see . . Our government gives out free food, subsidized
housing, free medical care, free education and allows anyone born here
to be a automatic citizen.
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> Then the illegal's came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our
taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5
families: you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room
doctor: your child's 2nd grade class is behind other schools because
over half the class doesn't speak English.
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> Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to press "one" to
hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other
than "Old Glory" are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding
more rights and free liberties.
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> Maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder.
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