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Monday, January 3rd, 2011

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    6:38a
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    @@@@@What's it to Croft if we take it easy?"
    "That guy is stripe-happy," Minetta said
    "They're all that way," Polack answeredHe pronounced "that" as "dat"Jus' let me meet up with one of those guys after the war
    "What'll you do, buy Croft a drink?"
    "You think I'm scared of him?" Minetta said"Listen, I been in the Golden Gloves, I ain't afraid of any of these guys Polack's grin irritated him
    "The only guy you could take is Roth," Polack said
    "Aaah, fug you, there's no use talkin' to you
    "I'm too ignorant
    They lifted two boxes from the pile in the boat, and began to walk back to the supply dump"Boy, I can't stand this," Minetta burst out angrily"I'm losing all my ambition
    "You think I'm just a fug-off, don't you?" Minetta asked"You ought to seen me back when I was a civilianI knew how to dress, I had an interest in life, I was always the leader in everything I didI could be a noncom now if I wanted to buck for stripes, suck the way Stanley does, but it ain't worth itYou got your self-respect
    "What do ya get worked up for?" Polack asked"You know I was makin' a hundred fifty a week, and I had my own carI was in with Lefty Rizzo, but 'in' There wasn't a dame in the world I couldn't make, models, actresses, good-lookin' twotsAnd all I'd work would be twenty hours a week, no, wait it was twenty-five, about four hours a night from five to nine, six nights a week, just collectin' the receipts from the numbers and turnin' them inYou hear me bitchin' now? Listen, it's all in the turn of the cards," Polack said, "all in the turnThe way to figure it is you're layin' low now, you're takin' it eas
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    "People like me play by a different set of rules from what you play by," he said"What happens when a corporation announces a downsizing?"
    "People get laid off," I saidUnemployment goes
    up
    "Yes, but what happens to the company, in particular a public company on the stock exchange?"
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    "That's right," he said"And when stock prices go up, people like me, the shareholders, get richerThat is what I mean by a different set of rulesEmployees lose; owners and investors win
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    "That's why it is foolish to simply say to a child, `Get a good education,' " he said"It is foolish to assume that the education the school system provides will prepare your children for the world they will face upon graduationEach child needs more educationAnd they need to know the rulesThe different sets of rules
    "There are rules of money that the rich play by, and there are the rules that the other 95 percent of the population plays by," he replica gucci said"And the 95 percent learns those rules at home and in schoolThat is why it's risky today to simply say to a child, `Study hard and look for a job' A child today needs a more sophisticated education, and the current system is not delivering the goodsI don't care how many computers they put in the classroom or how much money schools spendHow can the education system teach a subject that it does not know?"
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    "So how would you teach a child about money and all the things we've talked about?" I asked Robert"How can we make it easy for parents especially when they don't understand it themselves?"
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