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Well said, cecilbeanie. It seems the upper-crust are managing to fool lots of Americans about elitism. I started buying my school clothes in the 8th grade by doing ranch work in the summers. I put myself through college by working in the woods with a chainsaw. I paid for graduate school by working on Forest Service Roads in Montana. And, of course, I was drafted for service in the Vietnam War, where I started out as a private and came home a buck sergeant. In all these things I think I was pretty typical of young men in my generation of country boys who were curious about the World and who did not want to put in 35 years in a smelter or foundry or factory like our fathers did. But over the years we got to see the rich kids go off to prep schools and the Ivy League colleges, then somehow mysteriously not be called by their draft boards. While some of us were firing howitzers, they were getting established in law firms or in businesses through family connections. We know who they are, you bet we do. And they ain't Barak Obama. So, right on, Cecil. Good work.
