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Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling
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Originally Posted by Eric
Right on, bud. You got it in one. When I was a lad ... back in the hoss and cart days, serious  ... and lived on Rishton Rd., every afternoon at knocking off time, you could see them in their hundreds streaming down Charles St., workers from English Electric earning a decent wage which they used to raise their families. |
They were healthy and not suffering from 'battle shock' and shrapnel injuries.
There were no benefits for my mother and father in the early 1950's.
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