This too shall pass. I remember when I was a kid and my rural relatives, only sixty miles from the city, couldn’t get many many things that were freely available there. The best they had was Western Auto where they could go and order things from the catalog. When the price of fuel “necessarily skyrockets”, and “that man” puts price controls on, nothing’s going to move.
Now, I’m not arguing with you. You’re correct, and I suspect you were thinking in very specific lines, nothing you “NEED” you can’t get from the village. I’m just saying we’re going to have to go backward for a while, and who’s to say that won’t be good for us?
Young people need to learn the virtue of making do with what they have. I have so much “stuff” that I’ve bought over the time of our prosperity, that my attitude is that I have to play with the toys I already have rather than go out and buy new toys. I remember my father, upon so many requests from me saying “That Costs MONEY”, which didn’t make much sense to me — of course it cost money, everythng costs money, and he had the magic wallet that always had money in it. Now *I* have the magic wallet, and the only way it has money in it is if I don’t spend it.
and 0bama is the 0ne to teach them right?
Dude, don't worry, they will come for you too. You can sit there all smug 15 mi from nowhere but death is coming down the track.
“Who is in charge of the clattering train?
The axles creak and the couplings strain;
And the pace is hot, and the points are near,
And Sleep has deadened the driver's ear;
And the signals flash through the night in vain,
For Death is in charge of the clattering train.”
Quoted by W. Churchill in “The History of WWII”, Volume 1, ‘The Gathering Storm’, pg 123.
Your parents might have been poor but at least they were free.
I want to be free. Not to be ‘taught’ the value of a dollar.
Go to the re-education camps yourself. Not me.
I re-read your post and it has to be the most screwed up post on this thread.
#1. Who cares what your rural relatives had back in the day.
#2. “We are going to have to go backward for awhile?” Backward is what? I’ll tell you what. It is called backward in FREEDOM.
#3. “Now *I* have the magic wallet, and the only way it has money in it is if I don’t spend it.” This is the most laughable. Guess what. 0bama knows you have the magic wallet. You won’t be able to say ‘No’ to him.
You seem to delight that misery is coming by way of communism. It’ll teach us young whippersnappers a lesson won’t it. Teach us the value of a dollar won’t it? Don’t you get it?
What matters is FREEDOM. Not whatever crap you have piled up in your garage that you wasted YOUR money on.
A Sam Adams quote is good for you.
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” Sam Adams