My father, an Auschwitz survivor, came to the US w/ nothing. My mother spent much of her childhood in an orphanage. They started businesses that paid the bills, fed their kids & put others to work. I'd call that "pulling themselves up by their bootstraps," @RBReich. Wouldn't you? https://t.co/MmiPgU5qXo— Jeff Jacoby (@Jeff_Jacoby) December 22, 2019
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