Max Sawicky wrote:
>
> Many agriculturalists
> were so poor there wasn't much beneath them, in terms
> of standard of living, only in terms of those who
> tried to work and those who didn't.
>
WHAT? You mean welfare cheats and undeserving poor? My earliest political memory (which I didn't understand until years later) was of my grandparents talking about those horrid people who never took a bath. They meant the sitdown strikers!!! (This was only a few years after they had nearly lost their small farm.)
Carrol