Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Ode To The Welfare State! Comments

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Father, must I go to work?
No, my lucky son.
We’re living now on Easy Street
On dough from Washington!
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Robert Edgar Burns
son ode
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THOMAS UMLAND 14 March 2024

This poem supposedly appeared Tuesday Jan 24 1950 in the LA Times on the editorial page. It was entered by Wm P. Maurer without attribution. I believe that was about 3 years before Robert Edgar Burns was born. Mind checking on this?

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Robert Edgar Burns

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Dunedin, Florida
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