Posted on 05/18/2005 9:07:02 AM PDT by LIConFem
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50-years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned...
HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
AND while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
When I was about 4 years old, I acquired a little hand saw. I sawed wood, lots of it. There was a wooden table in the family room, and all around the edge of it were saw cuts, about an inch or two deep.
I got my first pocketknife when I was eleven. I carried it to school. I still carry a pocketknife--two, on some days.
"Boomers will rob everything they can from the future until they are outvoted around 2014 by which time the damage will be done."
You may be certifiable making this kind of statement. It is the progressive, liberal agenda to make sure as many people are dependent on government as possible. Me being born in 1957 does not make me a blood sucking boomer. You need to get a grip pal. Most of us middle aged conservatives would like more than anything to do away with these welfare programs. Sounds to me like you are worried the funds will run out on you. Socialist are you?
Well the boomer R's have the Senate, the House, and the Presidency. And what do they do with it? Free Drugs for Boomers, Easy Housing Money for Illegals, Free Drugs for Africa, etc.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure X/Y would be equally rapacious looters (especially considering their upbringing). It just so happens the Boomers have literally voted themselves more entitlements than ***all privately held wealth in America***. So the situation should come to a head in the next decade or so.
I think you underestimate the scope of the problem. Dollars will not be a safe store of value in a bankrupt kleptocracy. Nor will stocks in a market corrupted by false government incentives for malinvestement. The intergenerational pranging thats coming will result in an aggregate reduction in economic activity which will be to nobody's benefit.
Two words, real estate. Albeit, maybe not a good time to get into the market in some areas. I've done well in this area and should be fine with a rather debt free situation (working hard will do that). Plus some other liquid assets and property. I'll be fine and hope you will be too. I'm responsible for me, not my government. I hope that the citizens of America will wake up and stop this train wreck we call Washington DC.
Ping on your use of big words in your last post though. I'm done with this thread, take care and thanks for the rebuttal.
Er, real estate depends on supply, demand, and available credit.
The pol's have been using the (bankrupt) GSEs to pump the world's savings into America's housing market in order to keep the boomers happy.
I've done well in this area I'm responsible for me, not my government
LOL. Real Estate is the most Government Manipulated Market on the planet. Why do you think Fannie is incapable of issuing an accurate financial statement for the last 3 year?
I hope that the citizens of America will wake up and stop this train wreck we call Washington DC.
Too little, too late.
I remembethe days when a kid could go to the grocery store and buy cartons for the parents and it was nothing.
My mom would say "Get over it!" if we had a problem, and we did with no problems hahaha......try to say that now and watch the shitstorm hahahaha
Another thing I remember is in church if you started to act up there was the nudge, then if you kept acting up there was the pinch.....rarely a child went past that because that meant a spanking "outside."
Yet we never had a problem with it either. Try that now and you go to jail....
and I had to wear my suit and bow tie to church....it was such a "perfect world" LOL
I already live in a socialist country.
You on the the other hand will probably stay home (mom's?) and blame government for all your troubles.
I make decent money, several times the national average.
will go the beach this weekend, have some cold adult beverages,
Grew up on the beach....Motorcycle the Stans for amusement...tho next summer, I'm thinking of killing some cape buff.
I don't see why a realistic world view need be depressing.
move to a socialist country, Meanwhile in my capitalist bliss,
Its certainly better and safer than the willful self-delusion evinced in the statement above.
In fact, that's the problem with boomer R's. Always capitulating to Socialism and then pretending they haven't.
Ick.
AdamSelene235, you will realize unfortunately, how irrelevant you are when you no longer inhabit this earth. I hope you have other revelations before your unfortunate demise. Your self importance is going to be a big mistake. Good luck to you and good bye.
Ha. I've had plenty of opportunities for an unfortunate demise to the point where any future demise could only be counted as fortunate.
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I remember playing "Smear the Queer" in elementary school, if kids played that today they would at least be expelled and probably prosecuted for hate crimes.
Lovce that movie by the way, and growing up in the 50's I still wax nostalgic when I watch Andy or Leave It To Beaver. Was such a good time to live when we didn't have a bunch of anal retentive clods telling us how to live our lives, our childrens' lives or our grandkids lives.
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