The right to retire?

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Re: The right to retire?

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Drifting wrote:ludwigm,

''... we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender'' *Sir Winston Churchill*
moksha wrote:So you are saying that Ludwigm may have a ten year window left to parachute onto Normandy Beach? Hope the Hungarians have an saying for good luck other than "break a leg".

We have many sayings. The "break a leg and neck" is one of them, really.

The good luck is something we haven't.

For You, a little paraphrase of Lamentations...

He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Warsaw pact.

He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Yes, from 1945 to 198x we couldn't travel outside of boundaries of Socialist Lager.

Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
1956, Your government did it.

He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
The Russian bear...

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Treaty of Trianon, if any of You know what was it.

I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
We have became leftists against our wish...

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
It happened literally, in the 50's!

We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
The price of gas is twice as in US, the average incoming is 1/8 - 1/10.

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Orbán Viktor. Please google and You will see...

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
My face, for example...

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
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