Posted on 12/24/2014 7:27:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Add ‘my kids’ to the list of ‘tired of hearing it’. But they do (kinda) get it.
Our poor live better than kings...even 100 years ago...
This is something the elitist left would like to “correct”.
It’s not enough that they’re rich beyond historical imagination.
There’s not enough “difference” between them and the “common folks”.
Recently I read a biography of Mary Queen of Scots. Talk about a hard life. Her young years were a gift but once she married and became Queen (in name only, mostly) it went down hill quickly. Years of imprisonment, then torture and the block.
I would not trade places. God has placed me where He wants me in his work, I humbly accept my place in life. Some days are harder than others, of course, I am only human.
Yeah, it was rough — CRT TVs, rotary dial phones. Aaack!!
What is wrong with grinding wheat to have fresh bread, some of us do, or have done that and see it as just fine.
When your life is your own, you have a different pace to life and can find pleasure in doing things, today instead of making bread in the morning, we eat some cardboard that pops up out of the toaster and rush off to an office to sit for 8 hours selling cable TV, and do it to afford our taxes.
The same kind of person of 300 years ago that would have spent their waking hours worrying about how they were going to die, is doing that today.
Today, being ourselves is a captured moment, a rarity, today, our thoughts are constantly about government, from our local traffic cop to Obama, we are constantly being reminded that we are mere worker bees, drones to serve the state, and it is only going to get worse for future generations, they will have central heating and a microwave, but it will be more and more the life of a well taken care of farm animal or the pampered poodle in the Manhattan condo.
Most laws being pushed by the Left - no school vouchers, draconian searches before using air transit, carbon cap and trade, limits on electrical and plumbing devices, limits on “McMansions”, no cell phone use in cars etc, etc., are designed solely to keep the elites separated from the middle class.
Our betters grow increasingly frustrated and react with laws when they see the life of the middle class approach that of the rich. Technology is the great equalizer, and the Left despises it.
Two words: indoor plumbing.
Two more: modern dentistry.
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Well whether the person disagreed with me knows it or not I was homeless in another life and I didn’t even own a vehicle to live in so he’s I know exactly what it feels like to live out in the elements, have a hole burning in your stomach barely eating enough to stay alive on for the week, being poorly clothed with threadbare shirts, pants, and holy socks through no fault of my own because of the death of my parents and not because of alcohol or drug problems without the modern conveniences so yes I DO know the difference. The mental pressures of the modern life create a different type of hell that you don’t have when you are just trying to stay alive.
I don't think so. Feel free to provide an example of this frustration in words or deeds...
sanitation
clean water
safe food
Of course, to have those things, you need economic and political stability, which is what the challenges of the third world always come down to. Even in this country, before we had those things, diseases, hunger, poverty, shorter life spans, all were the norm. But we (and others) beat those because we had what many don't, and that is the power inherent in a free people and the willingness to pay the price to preserve that liberty.
I totally agree with you.
How many times have we all said something like, “I wish I could go back to the __(pick a century)__ days, just to see how it was!” I’d be willing to bet within 24 hours we’d all be clamoring to come home! People who opt (in Western culture, anyway) to haul water or grind wheat and the like, make that CHOICE, a far cry from a life and death necessity.
They pass laws. They enact policies. Do you really think the whole "Global Warming" charade is about the environment?
It's a movement meant to keep the middle class in its place and siphon off its resources.
One assesses the reactionary elites by what they do, not what they say.
Nor did they experience the greatness of Pong.
I was a speaker at Career Day at my son's middle school last week. I showed them my firsts:
First job: scorekeeper at a bowling alley.
First calculator: a slide rule.
First computer: an original Compaq, a real speed burner: 256K that I paid $3K for in 1983.
I also told them they have more computing power in their Ipads than NASA had to send our astronauts to the moon and back.
It is a golden age.
IN the US, the poor don’t starve - they have a problem with obesity.
Everybody has TVs, cellphones, adequate clothing. Only a very few are without shelter. Crime is relatively low. Entertainment is everywhere, 24-7.
This is probably the reason that we aren’t shooting yet; we have so much to lose.
*****....if you had to hunt for your food, build your own shelter, sew your own clothes, make your own heat, etc,****
Have you noticed however, that men still hunt hogs, deer & ducks, build their own campsites, women plant vegetable, herb & flower gardens, sew & knit clothes and families still cook food over open fires, plus chop wood for their decorative fireplaces.
We humans still retain our God given abilities to feed, clothe and shelter ourselves. It is not torture, it is the survival instinct. Comparing early man’s victories over adversity to modern man’s stresses of life is a wash.
Grinding your own wheat is part of good cooking, you should taste the fresh bread when you only grind the flour when you need it, and it sure makes for good homemade pasta as well.
Sprouting the wheat berries is also tasty and good for bread making.
which is why he built the biltmore mansion in the mountains of north carolina
Drs. Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams make this point all the time. The things the poorest in our country have would boggle the minds of royalty and the wealthy of ages past.
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