Interesting thread; to see waves of dogma about taxes & government and personal innuendo keep crashing against the rock of scholarship interwoven with a poignant personal tale that brought tears to my eyes.

Every man who has gotten to a point of something better from subsistence life knows deep down how close it was and how bad things would have turned out for reasons beyond his control (i.e. luck of whatever). We cannot find a better example than what happened to flu’s story.