So many things to respond to
newbury - perhaps we will see a short window of prosperity before it all comes crashing down. A major difference between your reminiscing and today is government. We certainly had corruption in the 70s but today we have the trappings of tyranny. It is difficult to prosper under tyranny.
Ahh yes, the 70's with Spiro Agnew and Nixon.
In the "Good Old Days", things were made in the USA by AMERICAN workers and craftsman. Those things lasted for decades, and when they did finally break, they were easily fixable and could last more decades.
Now, crap is made in China so a few corporate fat cats can be really rich, the crap breaks down, isn't rebuildable, and has to be replaced, so the fat cat can get richer providing work for the Chinese and to **** with the American worker.
Now you tell me, which is better? Are you American, or are you a fat cat or Chinese worker?
Ah yes, the days of the Chevy Vega, when cars would rust out the first year and you tried to make sure your car wasn't built on Hangover Monday or Party Friday.
Tax rates are far below those of the good old days.
https://www.google.com/search?q=us+...raph_of_the_day_for_september_9.html;1288;848
Much of the rat race is driven by the desire to have so many things. If we could live with the things people had in the 1940s it would be different.
Loren
Please don't bring actual FACTS into an argument. Besides, who looks at links when they know they won't like them? It's a lot easier to be right when you ignore reality.
OB...56... missed the draft by a couple of months. Almost joined the Army a few years later but changed my mind after being sent to Ft Polk Louisiana for a weekend(ROTC)....the late 70's was not good to the Army.
About the end of January, 1973 I got called up and told to report to the center in Albany, where if I passed the physical I'd be sure to get a free vacation in 'Nam. The day before I was to report Nixon stopped the draft. Two years later I joined the Army and ended up working at the same SMALL Army lab for 3 yrs enlisted and 34 years as a civilian.
When we were land hunting we looked at a parcel that contained a large family cemetery. It was a large cemetery, not because there were a great many generations buried in the plot, but because so many graves were babies and children. The vast majority of graves were kids.
People forget polio and the polio scares. Pools being closed and such. If you got the flu, you very well might die. My wife and I both have great grand fathers that died of flu. It was just common. Now, the papers talk about how many people are dying from flu because it is shocking. It is shocking that less than a dozen people have died. Years ago, that would have been a drop in the bucket.
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My father had a sister die of chicken pox which she caught from him. Almost unheard of today.
There were child sexual predator's years ago, we had what are now called stranger danger films at school, but the problem just was not talked about that much. Now, with instant communication, you hear of incidents in nearby cities and towns, that years ago you would not hear about. Just this week, there were arrests in Cary and Raleigh about child predators. Years ago, people in my county would not have heard about those arrests. The predators WERE there. We just did not know that much about them.
And furthermore if it's a slow newsday the local media will escalate reporting of ANYTHING that they think will sell ads - fires, traffic jams, bad weather - no matter where it is. Perhaps partially because in major markets local news runs from 4:30 to 7 am, an hour around noon, then from 4pm to 7pm almost 7 hours of "news" for a 24 hour day.
The world is a better place today than it was 50 or 100 years ago. We have our problems but they are nothing compared to what we used to have. My kids do not have Duck and Cover drills in school like I did. They no longer worry about a nuke exchange that would wipe out civilization.
Later,
Dan
Ah, the old "hide under your desk or down in the basement and kiss your behind good-by". But now they have lock down drills because of school shootings
This. I have done some family geneology recently, and was surprised at how many kids just didn't make it. My mom and dad both lost siblings, and my grandparents lost a couple each, and one side, the parents died from flu in 1918. After losing several coworkers to cancer and heart attacks, I decided retirement was a good idea. Good health is merely dying at a acceptably slow pace....
SWMBO suffered 2 strokes in 2 months back in '09, the second one severe (almost buried) and requiring about a year of rehab. Virtually fully recovered now, thank you, but still can't leap tall buildings with a single bound. Small buildings or two bounds now. But that was a wakeup call to retire while we could enjoy life.
Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you're going to miss in the years ahead.:thumbsup:
Like I said before:
Yes, they REALLY were the good old days.
I remember like it was yesterday. Warm, sunny, everything right in the world. But that was back on February 1st, 2014.
That seems so long ago now
