How many of us had parents that came through the Great Depression (the first one, not the Obama one), World War II and the Cold War and lived lives of self reliance, frugality, sensible consumption and freedom from debt as a natural way of life?
My parents held those values, learned through those hard years, and taught them to their children. And though I have occasionally strayed, it was never far and I have always returned to those basic tenets. I now thank my parents for the valuable lessons I learned from them and that I now try to pass on to the next generation and the one after that. These are values that lead to true freedom and have helped insulate us from past economic downturns and will do the same as this Depression and the socialist assault on the middle continues to worsen.
Because of my parents gifts of knowledge and skills we have never allowed ourselves to accumulate consumer debt and have no credit card balances. With the exception of our home, if we didn’t have the cash to buy something we didn’t buy it. We literally were uncomfortable owing money on our home and paid our mortgage off as quickly as possible.
We now only buy necessities along with tools and other goods that will be needed when the consumer economy and the worthless Obama dollar collapse.
If a miraculous intervention takes place and the Republic is saved from Obamunism, the food we store and the tools we own will still be just as valuable and useful.
Re: “How many of us had parents that came through the Great Depression (the first one, not the Obama one), World War II and the Cold War and lived lives of self reliance, frugality, sensible consumption and freedom from debt as a natural way of life?”
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Yes, I’m one of those ‘kids’ of Great Depression parents — our motto here was “use it up, make it do,”yada yada yada — I can’t remember the rest of it.
But yes, though I have spent freely over time, I come back to my fiscally conservative roots at times and this is certainly the time.
Funny story: While wandering local mall yesterday I spied a desk at Restoration Hardware — on it was a silver stapler for sale for about $30. It was the flimsy knock-off of an ancient stapler my father had from the fifties. It’s still here, with me, at my house!
The Obamabots I know are always spending every dime; then crying poor. Sickening — they are not broke but love to whine about their situation after they have spent $200K redoing their house, or another one has spent thousands on travel and high end meals and souvenirs. Please...
These people don’t understand why I don’t spend more but I say I’ve spent on what I NEED (without telling them what I spend ON, of course, like a giant safe and ammo...)