Posted on 07/23/2013 7:26:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In 1975:
1.You could buy an airline ticket and fly without ever showing an ID.
2.You could buy cough syrup without showing an ID.
3.You could buy and sell gold coins without showing an ID
4.You could buy a gun without showing an ID
5.You could pull as much cash out of your bank account without the bank filing a report with the government.
6.You could get a job without having to prove you were an American.
7.You could buy cigarettes without showing an ID
8.You could have a phone conversation without the government knowing who you called and who called you.
9. You could open a stock brokerage account without having to explain where the money came from.
10. You could open a Swiss bank account with ease. All Swiss banks were willing and happy to open accounts for Americans.
There are thousands of other examples.The monitoring is in place all that is required from here is the clampdown.
The differences, between now and 1975 in the business sector are even more prevalent. In recent years, in industry after industry regulations and prohibitions have been poured on top of free markets. It doesn't look like things will get any better in years to come. Eventually, the economy will suffocate and collapse, if this continues.
Cigs are up 1000% and so are cars. So why can I buy a refrigerator now for the same price as I paid in 1975?
I was born in 1975, so this resonates with me. And not for the better.
“You could drain a swamp or fill in a low spot on your property”
Yes! Before the Clean Water Act and the Glancing Goose Hypothesis.
I bought a .22 rifle for my son in early 1980 something.
I guess the guy could tell I was over 18 since I had my son with me.
No ID and no forms to fill out.
Just 8 years earlier, blacks were burning down their cities.
Today, there’s nothing left of Detroit to burn, so they quit that practice.
Libertarians position on illegal aliens is essentially open borders like the democrats. No thanks.
Nope, wine, spirits and any beer I wanted. Then I landed at the San Francisco airport on my way to serve a one year tour in Korea. Couldn’t buy a drop.
When I was a little kid in the 70's, I couldn't tell you how many times I'd be helping my dad in the garden and he'd send me to the corner store for a pouch of Levi Garret. If I'd been particularly good, he'd give me an extra $0.25 for a pack of baseball cards.
lol...if you have a dog, make sure he’s safe and secure elsewhere.....and leave the door wide open so you don’t have to fix it.
When we kids were particularly wound up scrapping buttheads,
Pop came home with two sets of boxing gloves.
He said I am tired of yall wanting to fight!
Yall want to fight?
Here..
Go fight!
Marquees of Queensberry rules..
I guess that is child abuse by today’s standards.
“I don’t think minors could buy cigarettes in 1975.”
Not legally but i bought them when I was 12. I could get away with it because I was 6-0 and weighed 150.
Although I confess I still do that.
For the record we are on the verge of repeating some crappy stuff from 1975.
**** poor economy, High unemployment, Inflation.
If Obama loses the current near zero interest rate, the national debt with explode.
I was born in 1975, and I don’t think they HAD to get me a Socialist Insecurity Number.
I don’t recall ever not having the money. I think his fees must have been in line with most people’s income at that time.
He was well off because he worked 16 hours a day and was called out to deliver babies in the night. He had office hours and made hospital rounds.
Now, doctors charge high prices and hire a PA or NP to see patients. Most don’t go to the hospital.
The population in our county has declined also. But the number of doctors and other health care workers has greatly multiplied.
OMG!
I was churning butter at 5, making cake donuts and working the fields at 7.
When I got bigger I was haying the fields and scraping hogs.
Lordy, Lordy the abuse.
Shhhhhhhhh- NSA, IRS is watching/listening. .....(something they weren’t doing in 1975)
We always had the money, even though we were blue collar, But you knew the Doc personal back then, and barter could be arranged.
Now that is against the law.
We are all gonna deal with a Gov Bureaucracy soon.
It is bad enough already due to Teddy Kennedy.
Soon There will be no family Doc.
It will be the Gov run Walmart clinic.
All grievances to be filed via IRS.
I’ve got about 12 million arguments against #6.
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