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    No Thanks!: Judy's Story, Not an Unusual Tale
    No Thanks!: Judy's Story, Not an Unusual Tale
    No Thanks!: Judy's Story, Not an Unusual Tale
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    No Thanks!: Judy's Story, Not an Unusual Tale

    By Joseph P. Badame

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    The former generations of self-sacrificing and benevolent Americans are dying and dying with them is American greatness and generosity. That greatness is being replaced by the entitlement mentality of much of our younger generation of today. The mentality is now approaching an epidemic and threatens the foundations on which our country was based. The sad tale of this decay is told in this short story of Judy who was compelled to become a single mother of two small children by tragedy. The true tale recounts how her sacrifice and kindness by welcoming into her home a needy child as one of her own was returned with indifference and callousness. It is a story that is repeated in homes across the country between parents and their own offspring. The sad narrative illustrates how the path of our nation is leading to self-interest rather than concern for those around us. It marks the death of gratitude and gratefulness. If left unaddressed this accelerating trend will leave us with a country that none will recognize and leave us yearning for the one we lost through our own neglect.

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    PublisherJoseph P. Badame
    Release dateDec 8, 2014
    ISBN9781311160379
    No Thanks!: Judy's Story, Not an Unusual Tale
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    Joseph P. Badame

    Joseph Badame is a retired architect living in New Jersey. He is spending his remaining years working on projects to honor his late wife who was a master teacher. This book is one of his endeavors to pay tribute to her memory.

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      No Thanks! - Joseph P. Badame

      Copyright © 2014 by Joseph P. Badame

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      Joseph P. Badame

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      by Joseph P. Badame

      My soul mate,

      My woman,

      My bride,

      My love,

      My life

      "Among the many loving things a man can do for his woman,

      his soul mate, his love, his bride, his life are these four:

      To love her passionately and unconditionally;

      To inspire and rejoice in her happiness;

      To suffer with her by her side during her trials;

      To honor her by writing adoringly about her when she is gone

      God has gifted me the privilege to have done all four.

      I have accomplished all that is of any importance in my life.

      Lord, my work is complete.

      I am ready to join her when You call."

      Joseph P. Badame

      2015

      Phyliss and Joseph Badame

      A lifetime ago

      Lovingly dedicated to Phyliss

      A Master Teacher all her life – still teaching after she is gone

      No Thanks!

      Judy’s Story

      Not an Unusual Tale

      The United States of America, as a country and a people, has proven repeatedly over the years to be the most benevolent and giving nation in the world, by a huge measure. There are people in our country that will challenge that claim with vigor while at the same time having been and continuing to be the major recipients of that generosity and benevolence. I know it is pathetic, but nonetheless, it is true.

      If you wish prime examples of such people, you have to look no further than the leaders of the highest offices in the land. These are people who have been showered with and benefited from the magnificence of our system, its abundance, and its opportunity, yet wish to deny it to others who long to reach a similar achievement in life.

      They have no understanding and do not wish to understand the greatness of America. There is a desire, no, a fanatical obsession, a crusade, to foist that deficient, and narcissistic thinking on as many Americans and non-Americans who are ignorant enough to listen to and believe the utter nonsense that we citizens are evil and they are just.

      You may argue about the source of such a motivation. It is a futile argument. The motivation is of no importance. The devastating and fatal results to our people and our country are all that are relevant. It is a malignancy that must be removed or the patient will die.

      There is a cancer spreading from the highest levels that extends down to the life blood of our country, the next generations of Americans. This cancer is not infecting all of the next

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