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A Plumber To Snake The DC Drain

tparker Wrote: Jun 20, 2012 12:54 PM

Believe it or not - plumbers are an essential part of our society. I'm working on my masters degree in sociology, but I remember as an undergrad, taking my Intro to Sociology class, and my professor explained one day how essential garbage men are to a functional society. She explained that if garbage men didn't show up for work when they were supposed to and perform the essential actions necessary, then our society, would literally have no way to properly dispose of our trash, and well - just use your imagination of how nasty things would get. The same concept can be applied to plumbers. They hold an essential role in a functional society. Without them, our toilets would break and not get fixed.

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A Plumber To Snake The DC Drain

Some people enter the public consciousness willingly; others accidentally. But how one gets there has little to do with how one handles it once the national spotlight begins to shine.

Some step up. Some melt like an ice sculpture on a hot summer day. Because the spotlight doesn’t turn you into something you’re not; it accentuates who you are.

Similarly, progressives argue money corrupts politics. Not so. Money may be the means through which corruption is conducted, but honest people never seem to find themselves in those situations. They never have to walk away from bribes because the bribes...

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