[justjim]

"As far as the sense of entitlement comment, I stand by it.". Jdblfan. I don't personally know the vast majority of TV residents but the ones I do know well enough to call friends don't have what you call a sense of entitlement. You might be surprised to find that many TV residents came from very poor backgrounds and without exception they were not born with a silver spoon in their mouths. Many of us came from "blue collar" homes where they had mothers who mixed bread with hamburger to make the so called meat stretch far enough so all the family members had some to eat. As kids we were poor but didn't know we were poor. We learned the value of work from a very early age. If we wanted spending money we earned it by mowing yards, babysitting, collecting soda bottles, picking wild berries in season, packing in coal and whatever else we could find to do. When my father lost his job Because his factory closed, my mother took in washing and cleaned houses to help out. When I graduated from High School, I went straight to work miles away and sent home money every payday, until Dad got a decent job, so we could keep our house. We were entitled to work hard, pay your bills, save a little for a "rainy" day and go to church on Sunday. When I was 20 years old, I married a beautiful young Christian girl who just graduated from High School (met at church) and for years we worked hard and reached our goals of being the first in our families to graduate from college---while having a son born along the way. Like most folks, we had our mountains and our valleys. We saved and invested for retirement. That's only a small part of our story but in TV (trust me) you will find similar and better stories over and over again. This great land has given us opportunities not entitlements.