[Gene Eric]

I guess I’m just a nostalgic fool...

As a former blue collar laborer, I understand the point of moving on, but when it concerns the importation of building supplies, steel, tech, clothing, it’s a different issue.

The problem is the cost of producing essential domestic product exceeds demand. That’s #ed up for a country that’s so damn proud of itself, and has sadly abandoned production for gambling.

[expat_panama]

For me nostalgia has practically become a flippin' disease, I even built an extra entire room for all the old junk I'm too chicken to throw away.   With the nation it's different though and the good old days were just like today, full of change.  My parents were born into a nation of family farms and turned it into a manufacturing power that won two world wars.  Over the past 50 years our lifetimes have had that power increase five fold while we created a service power shift bigger than the one from farms to factories.

We wouldn't turn the clock back even if we could because we owe our kids and their kids the opportunities we and our parents had.