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To: nickcarraway

So Fred Trump saw opportunity, and maximized the potential, trading on a sure thing....

Surely people have done much worse than that in their lifetimes.

All the gold ain’t in them thar hills. Some of it has been dug up and now resides in somebody else’s vaults.


11 posted on 09/20/2015 1:46:40 PM PDT by alloysteel (If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers.)
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To: alloysteel

We could say Grandpa was doing a charitable thing for the miners.


24 posted on 09/20/2015 1:52:55 PM PDT by dforest
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To: alloysteel

So Fred Trump saw opportunity, and maximized the potential, trading on a sure thing....

Surely people have done much worse than that in their lifetimes.

All the gold ain’t in them thar hills. Some of it has been dug up and now resides in somebody else’s vaults.


Yep, Capitalist through and through. Runs in the genes I guess.


61 posted on 09/20/2015 2:11:32 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: alloysteel
All the gold ain’t in them thar hills.

Like my uncle back in the '70s told my then 20-something year old cousin: You're sitting on a gold mine. He's laid off the booze in his later years. LOL

126 posted on 09/20/2015 5:03:51 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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