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Fred Thomas
If participating in the American Economy is like sailing on the Titanic then should we be stuffing our faces with lobster and prime rib, listening to the orchestra, and curling up in the fetal position on a deck chair or should we be building a life boat? And shoiuld that life boat contain bars of gold, deeds, stock and bond portfolios and bags of cash, or bottled water, cases of food, fishing poles and guns and ammo or something else all together? And how do we stop other passengers from climbing aboard our life raft when the big boat sinks?
Now I don't see the iceberg yet so we just got off a 7 day Caribbean cruise aboard Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas last Sunday. The total decadence was wonderful. Carnival's Triumph was supposed to dock next to our ship on Monday but didn't make it. They were towed to Mobile, Alabama five days later under adverse conditions. Many say that they were glad not to be aboard but not me. I would have been gladly dropped aboard for the minor inconveniences and yet the nice compensation from Carnival.
Tell me what you think. fwthom@hotmail.com but don't send me any recycled mendacities from the internet.
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