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bpdou
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 Posted: 11/22/04 - 09:36 Post subject: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Jeeeeeezzzeee you guys.
As if rebuilding the house for the family with the blind autistic son and deaf parents wasn't enough...
or rebuilding the house for the woman (and her two adopted crack-addicted-at-birth sons) who'd been bilked by the contractor and had her house destroyed...
or rebuilding the house for the widower and his seven children...
let's save a widow's family farm, build her a farm house, build a barn, fill it with hay, plant twenty acres, throw a benefit concert (with Randy Travis) and give her TWO cars.
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mickeyvw98
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Posted: 11/22/04 - 09:58 Post subject:
I really enjoy this show. I like the fact that they do the "re-do's" for families that deserve it. I wish they would have time to go back and see how the family is doing since the makeover.
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BamBam
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Posted: 11/22/04 - 10:00 Post subject:
Maybe Pebbs and the kids can write in and say they have to live with me (if that isn't a sob story I don't know what is).
We can get the balance of our basement finished and the kids can get some really cool themed rooms
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elkid
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Posted: 11/22/04 - 11:10 Post subject:
It is so refreshing to see people hop in and help others purely for altruistic reasons. This show does good works, and the people that work on it, and volunteer for it, amaze me.
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monk25
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Posted: 11/22/04 - 11:16 Post subject:
Of course I must politicise this and point out that this would never happen under socialism. Capitalism ROCKS. 
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bpdou
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Posted: 11/22/04 - 11:22 Post subject:
| elkid wrote: | | It is so refreshing to see people hop in and help others purely for altruistic reasons. This show does good works, and the people that work on it, and volunteer for it, amaze me. |
I agree, it's one thing I love about this show. It's always the community that always makes it REALLY happen. Granted, they get the ball rolling, and they have lots of sponsors eg Sears, but like last night, all the hay that showed up in that barn was donated by local farmers, and the money they got for the kids education, etc, was donated by the community. It's a bit of fishes n' loaves action going on there.
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genie
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Posted: 11/22/04 - 11:28 Post subject:
| monk25 wrote: | | Of course I must politicise this and point out that this would never happen under socialism. Capitalism ROCKS. |
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elkid
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Posted: 11/22/04 - 11:32 Post subject:
| monk25 wrote: | | Of course I must politicise this and point out that this would never happen under socialism. Capitalism ROCKS. |
It wouldn't happen selectively. It would happen on a greater scale, under the radar, and much more often.
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monk25
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Posted: 11/22/04 - 11:36 Post subject:
| elkid wrote: |
It wouldn't happen selectively. It would happen on a greater scale, under the radar, and much more often. |
No, it wouldn't (people and corpations are too poor to help, take a good look at France). Besides, wouldn't the GOVERNMENT would take care of us all  )
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