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Hi Tony

Keep on expanding your horizons by helping us to enjoy and learn through your delightful sonnets.

posted by Bhaskar.ing on December 4, 2006 at 10:54 AM | link to this | reply

very nice, help others........

posted by star4sky5 on December 3, 2006 at 10:39 PM | link to this | reply

Insightful, Tonyzonit. Good job...

posted by saul_relative on December 3, 2006 at 5:27 PM | link to this | reply

Some interesting comments there - thanks.

posted by Antonionioni on December 3, 2006 at 4:22 PM | link to this | reply

Tony

I understand just what you are saying , I worked all my life a few years back I got sick and they turned me down for SSI and everything else , I had to get an lawyer to get what was coming to me yet they let drug addicts and drunks draw off the system because this is called a mental disability, good topic

posted by Kat02 on December 3, 2006 at 4:08 PM | link to this | reply

Tony I always pay my taxes, i wanted you to know that--- so can I stay

in your good "books"? just teasing. There is abuse in every welfare system sadly... An honest living is not always the most lucrative, but it beats being a crim. better honest and poor than rich and dishonest. there is a proverbe in the Bible, if only i could remember the quote properly, here is me preaching at you again. i do apologize.

posted by marieclaire66 on December 3, 2006 at 2:08 PM | link to this | reply

INFACT YOU ARE VERY GOOD AT THIS THE FREEDOM IS NOT OUTSIDE IT IS INSIDE THE SELF......

.......SO IF THE PRISONERS ARE AS YOU FREE FROM INSIDE THEY WILL ENJOY JAIL OF COURSE???????

posted by NAJWA on December 3, 2006 at 1:46 PM | link to this | reply

No, I'm not prepared to be a monk or a nun myself, either, Tony

There's too much life to be lived to hie myself to a nunnery.

posted by Blanche. on December 3, 2006 at 12:40 PM | link to this | reply

Yes, RI, hopefully sooner rather than later!!

posted by Antonionioni on December 3, 2006 at 12:38 PM | link to this | reply

Tonyz...work is good, but I'm ready for retirement lol....maybe a sonnet

some day on that subject??.

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posted by Rumor on December 3, 2006 at 12:04 PM | link to this | reply

Hi Alivia

Well, yes, the people I was referring to do choose this 'sick' lifestyle. It's called sickness benefit payments, and according to the media, over 1 million people of working age are 'doing a sickie' or are 'on the sick' on a semi-permanent basis, but the twist is, that many of them are perfectly healthy and are conning the state and the taxpayer by claiming sickness benefits fraudulently. They work on the black market while claiming to be unable to walk without a stick, that kind of thing. Then, after they've shown up at the doctor's every two weeks or the benefits people, they put the walking stick back under the stairs and go out to work on a building site or go for a game of golf. They pay no tax, but get the welfare payments on top of their wages.

posted by Antonionioni on December 3, 2006 at 10:51 AM | link to this | reply

Thanks everyone - merci beaucoup.

Blanche - well, I don't know about that. Obviously they don't have a formal brainstorming session and all that, but their minds must weigh things up, however quickly, and make a decision - straight, or criminal. But I wasn't trying to imply there was much of a thinking session involved, just that there ARE alternative lifestyles. Another one, which I didn't have room for, was the monastic lifestyle.

posted by Antonionioni on December 3, 2006 at 10:46 AM | link to this | reply

Tony this is funny

It seems you must bounce out of bed every morning thrilled to go to work! I'm envious! I must say I'm pretty sure I've known people who have chosen the drugs and crime lifestyles, but not anyone who has actually chosen a lifestyle of illness. That's not a choice but an infliction. Cheers!

posted by Alivia on December 3, 2006 at 9:34 AM | link to this | reply

The poem flowed nicely and I enjoyed reading it. It was different, not your traditional content and I love that!

posted by Lucinda_Price on December 3, 2006 at 6:54 AM | link to this | reply

Tony, it's funny to read "alternatives are drugs and crime" as if ayone

sat down, thought about it and said, "Hm, I think drugs and crime are a good alternative, okay, meth and robbery it is." As for the rest, I'm there.

posted by Blanche. on December 3, 2006 at 5:06 AM | link to this | reply

ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLES

THERE IS A FRENCH PAINTING LABLED WORK, THAT I HAVE ALWAYS PUT GREAT STORE IN. GOOD WORK TONY.....

posted by FARSAILOR on December 3, 2006 at 4:29 AM | link to this | reply

Tonyzonit,

how did you get away with it? - I have been working since 1969 (if you say it quickly it doesn't sound so bad..).