tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125402567351329247.post8566224611892748512..comments2024-03-11T16:39:12.344-05:00Comments on Once A Knight ...: "Little people" are big people, tooNico Van Thynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07072351355184106484noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125402567351329247.post-23731706187725093702015-05-11T13:57:41.314-05:002015-05-11T13:57:41.314-05:00Rep. Ted Lieu (D-California): "I think it'...Rep. Ted Lieu (D-California): "I think it's easy for people like you and me, who wear suits and ties and work in offices, to cast aspersions on those with 10th grade educations. And I certainly hope you're not saying that only those with college degrees or high school degrees should be eligible for federal benefits. <br />"But let's talk about some of these folks with the 10th grade educations, such as Maria Isabel Jimenez. She was a farm worker, 17 years old. She worked for nine hours one day on a farm near Stockton in brutal heat, without shade or water, and then she collapsed. She was taken to the hospital. Her body temperature was 108.4 degrees. She died two days later.<br />"When I was in the California state legislature, I had the opportunity to meet — over many years — many farm workers who've had families die in brutal conditions in the heat, so that you and I can have less expensive orange juice, cheaper artichokes, less expensive garlic. <br />"And I just want to suggest that people like Maria Isabel Jimenez ... that her net contribution in dying so that you and I can have cheaper grocery bills so that we can spend less, she's given far more to American society than you or I ever will." Nico Van Thynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072351355184106484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125402567351329247.post-20527736383938730252015-02-23T13:20:59.625-06:002015-02-23T13:20:59.625-06:00From Ike Futch: I have a son that's one of tho...From Ike Futch: I have a son that's one of those "little people." Always enjoy your blogs.Nico Van Thynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072351355184106484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125402567351329247.post-60758081293134999902015-02-23T13:14:12.249-06:002015-02-23T13:14:12.249-06:00From Dick Hicks: Great article, as usual, but must...From Dick Hicks: Great article, as usual, but must admit the names immediately jumped in my mind when you said "little people" -- Whitey Ford, Nellie Fox, Bill Mazeroski and Curt Flood, just to name a few.Nico Van Thynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072351355184106484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125402567351329247.post-27317884320401388472015-02-23T13:11:56.022-06:002015-02-23T13:11:56.022-06:00From Frank Bright: I think that your punch line wa...From Frank Bright: I think that your punch line was spot on, as the Brits say.Nico Van Thynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072351355184106484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125402567351329247.post-55706193963841488732015-02-23T13:11:06.361-06:002015-02-23T13:11:06.361-06:00From Kitty van der Woude: Hi, what a subject! To m...From Kitty van der Woude: Hi, what a subject! To me big people were always the ones who in the war hid Jews at the risk of their own lives. Many of those heroes were shot. And the ones doing all the work to keep the resistance movement going, organizing food coupons and money, and after September 1944 rowing wounded English pilots to liberated areas ... many lost their lives in doing so. And they did not even have recognizable names. Bea is right: Where do you draw the line?Nico Van Thynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072351355184106484noreply@blogger.com