[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]His father brought him as a toddler to the Sacramento area from Italy and then abandoned him. He was sent to a poor farm and raised there. As soon as he was old enough to be useful, he was put to work on the farm until he reached age of majority, then was turned out to find his own way. He was fed and clothed at the farm, but barely adequately, and said he was always hungry. It was slavery, pure and simple.
He received no education at all except in farm labor. He's nearly 90 now and still completely illiterate. He unsuccessfully tried to count on his fingers to tell me how much rent he pays currently for his squalid room, and he can't even read street signs.
He worked all his life as a farm laborer because he didn't know anything else. He has a friend nearby who brings him food every day and looks out for him. Without that friend and Social Security, he'd be another old man living on the streets.
Our society leaves a very great deal to be desired in terms of basic decency, and the damned TeaGOPers want to flush people like Mario and millions of others down the toilet.
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