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	Name:	Council Roc Doc -
	Subject:	Bob
	Date:	3/7/2008 1:16:13 PM

So let me get this straight....Que sera, sera and if you don't like "progress" leave? I can think of not one situation in my entire life where that philosophy would have benefited me. And I can assure you, my wife and me are not passing on that form of intellectual laziness to our children. Well I take that back, my wife once told me a story about her childhood home in College Park, Georgia. Used to be a clean, well taken care of neighborhood when she was a child. Her father loved their home. Alot of sweat equity. Great schools, wonderful neighbors. You see where I am going with this. A desperate neighbor literally gave away his home under financial duress to people who had no intention of keeping the house and neighborhood up to the current standards. One by one, others sold with decreasing profits, until my wife's father was the only original owner left because he loved his house that much and would not give it away. White flight was the term they gave it. Unfortunately, when crime became so bad, he had to sell his dream home at a considerable loss. Under this circumstance, he would have done well to heed LTL's advice of like it or leave. But my wife saw what a man he was and what he was made of and to this day, I see and admire a certain stubborn streak in her that is unwilling to accept the status quo and will work and fight for what is appropriate that I'm sure she got from her father.

So bottom line for me is, if you see a wrong, right it with tact and dignity. I can sleep better at night.......