In our little town out on the lonesome Texas prairie, General Cable installed a plant one year. As they paid nearly two dollars every blessed hour to start, they found plenty of failed farmers to fill up their roster without resorting to such emergency tactics as offering health care.
And so when, as often happened in the land that health forgot, the boys went down with maladies, a means of ad hoc health care was devised: a coworker on the line would walk the plant with a tin cup, asking for donations to help John Paul and his family over their medical trouble.
Cletis sniffed at the cup, said, "I don't believe in it." You see, Cletis was a conservative, who believed every self-reliant stalwart Man should be able to take care of himself and family without bothering his neighbors. Cletis, he wouldn't cotton to no welfare, nawsir!
The trouble with that position was, Cletis himself had gone into the hospital not many months prior and he had gladly accepted the welfare from his comrades when it was kindly offered by the Good Samaritans out on the line.
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