"Robatoy" wrote in message
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On Dec 15, 11:16 am, Morris Dovey wrote:
mac davis wrote:
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:04:33 -0600, Morris Dovey
wrote:

Upscale wrote:

There's been times in my life where I'd have happily given up 10%
of
my wages to save my job.
On the local news this past weekend: About 80% of Iowans surveyed
said
they'd be willing to take a pay cut in order to save the job of the
person sitting /next/ to them...

...and Iowa wages are already sub-par.

Morris.. Hate to bring a rain cloud over your sunny thought, but in
my
experience, saying you'll take a pay cut and actually doing it are 2
different
things..

Very true - but who's to say how many actually meant what they said?

Sort of like saying that you'd die for someone and then rethinking
it if the
choice is presented...

Same deal - and of the people I knew who said they'd put their life on
the line, many did - and died honoring that commitment.

I don't think you make a convincing argument.

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USAhttp://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/

Many have died for people not even knowing who they were/are.
Those kind of people fit my definition of the word hero. Then again,
in my world there are no sports 'heroes'.
Even astronauts and people like them don't really fit the hero bill.
Mind you, standing beside a Mercury Redstone (a bit bigger than a
telephone pole) and trying to imagine what that must have been like.
To sit in a can, on top of a controlled explosion...and telling the
boys on the ground to go ahead and light the wick... that takes balls,
faith and a bit of crazy. I will have to think about that some more.

And, as one them once replied when asked what he was thinking as the
final seconds to lift-off ticked down, "I was thinking about how this
thing was built by the lowest bidder." Or words to that effect.

Dave in Houston