I am Thankfull for you Mr. Shields.
Happy thansgiving

I am thankful for the Newshour and I-8 that makes it easy for us to drive the 500 miles to my sister's house for a turkey dinner with my brother-in-law's fantastic stuffing.

And, btw, the most irritating opening phrase to a question is: "I mean" (used before anything has been said for which their is a meaning to clarify. "Look" is a close second.

Sir; ... I am thankful for the moral of Thanksgiving, that the turkeys are served up, and the hogs feast... It does not usually matter where you sit, but if you feel you have your back to the table, you better get off... And, sad to say, that is where more and more of Americans are finding themselves, full of stuffing, surrounded by berries, gravey, and squash... My pension is in trouble, and I am too beat up to do good work...I am too young for social security, and so old, I don't know if I'll make it... Things could be worse... I could be too proud to beg, and too lazy to work....I look at myself, and I see how much the earning of ones life can take out of ones life, and I see I am well off...I would hate to be in many homes, and witness the pain so many must face suffering an uncertain future...I am certain many will not know whether to bless the meal, or curse their fates...I don't know why such people do not storm into the streets, and instead paint a pained smile on, and carry on in resentment and frustration... I have some relatives who are chronic complainers, and from my perspective life has dumped on them...I know people do not like those sorts, and so they also suffer loneliness... I prefer those kinds who speak their minds who refuse to go to their graves with a shoe stuffed in their mouths...If you think about it you can see that even with ten percent unemployment, huge numbers retired, disabled, or otherwise unable to work; and there is no want of goods in our stores... This single greatest blessing of technology is reduced to fewer people overworked, greater numbers underemployed, or unemployed, and life more full of frights than we have ever known it to be....We do not see the blessing of technology which has only increased our exploitation, and threatened our existence...Look to the old, the young, and everyone in between, and ask if their country has kept its promise to them... Social security is shorted, and why??? Every entitlement is in doubt, and I agree that the people are entitled to see the profit and produce of this land in their common pocket... Yet; why after so many years of high profit are the people and their government on the skids, looking for a handout, without visible means of support??? It is not only that government does not have the will to do good, but it does not have the means because it has not the will to take taxes from those who have means...Every single time the poor are taxed when the rich should be, the rich grow richer, and the poor become destitute...I hope I am not the only turkey to realize that we cannot possibly continue as we have; that the economy of the world that we have fattened with American Capital is about to eat us for lunch... We cannot refuse their products, or they will refuse ours, and now we are in the pocket of a communist country even while we officially detest communism, and yet we must kiss their commie butts because capitalism will not survive without them... Sure it is a wacky world, but I is grateful for it...For two reasons...It is entertaining, and it is the only one I got... Thanks; and get on the table...Sweeney