Taxes are killing you, and you don't have a job? Gas is expensive and you're living in the US? Funny.
Now how about supporting a little sacrifice on the home front to support the brave men and women overseas, like a BTU tax?
Al Gore, is that you?
I lived during that time and believe me I realize we are not retreading tires and having to use an ice box because the old fridge broke down...I know we don't have to ration visits to check on grandmother because of gas rationing..kids don't have to walk to school and the movies...Fudge was made once a year as Hershey's had gone to war..We worked a big victory garden and we raised the chickens we ate.
I don't idealize it..It was necessary..There was a world war going on...and our national debt v GDP was horrendous.