Count Your Blessings: Common folk live better now than royalty did in earlier times

Washington Times ^ | 12/24/2014 | Richard Rahn

[SeekAndFind]

Where?

[SeekAndFind]

[heye2monn]

Or Ferguson, Missouri, with an extra bonus for looting.

[MinorityRepublican]

Beautiful!

[terycarl]

The average low-income American, who makes $25,000 per year, lives in a home that has air conditioning, a color TV and a dishwasher Where?

virtually everywhere in America that you look

[workerbee]

I have no doubt you’re right. The more home-made, the better (usually!)

But my original point stands. You do this as a choice, not a necessity. Therein lies the difference, insofar as “surviving” goes.

[Blue Ink]

Americans who still have jobs spend every waking moment either at work, commuting, and emailing at night and on weekends.

At least when everyone farmed, you had to knock off at sunset. And you were already home.

And Big Business has very cleverly used a couple of highly placed female CEOs to guilt every single mother in America into holding down not one but two full-time jobs (office and motherhood). Quit complaining and “lean in,” ladies! Sleep and one day a week off are so overrated.

So since women have been yoked into the eighty-hour harness (by other women!), just like working men, all men and women in America are now on the same treadmill.

Oh, and other people are raising your kids.

How is ANY of this better?

[ansel12]

I’m just not sure that fresh baked bread, natural grains and cereals, and home churned butter, should be listed among the horrors of the past.

[Lizavetta]

If you’re stressed now, it’s because you make up s#!^ to worry about because your brain is wired to cope with stress and will invent it just to have something to cope with.

Is this true ?

[CommieCutter]

I’ve noticed it, yes.

But the people I’m talking about DON’T do these things.