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You all have been so spoiled you don’t know what it takes to make your own way in the world. No one owes you a job and don’t be surprised when that if you get a job you will start at the bottom. Embrace it and climb that ladder the best you can. Just as we did. Or continue to whine telling us we don’t understand because we are such dolts and such a drag on society. Sounds like class warfare to me. Who do you suppose is losing their homes and have lost their life savings? It sure isn’t you since you are a victim. Grow up.

Grow up? Where did I say I was owed anything?

You started this conversation by stating "I'm owed this", "I'm owed that". "Well I paid in, so now I get."

Bad news buddy: I don't owe you anything. And if that upsets you, go take it up with the politicians who promised you all of that.

I notice you haven't responded to a single point I've made. You're just going in to name calling and wild accusations.

It's okay though. Our government is going to run out of money and when it does, your SS will be gone. Your medicare will be gone. And all the other little giveaway programs you think you're owed will all be gone.

And nothing is going to change that - because there are too many people who think the same way you do.

It's just more Obamaland 2012. :)

Something for you to think about and the point is not the environment.

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own grocery
bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days.”

The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today.

Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.”

She was right — our generation didn’t have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.

We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.

But she was right....

We didn’t have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a clothes line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts — wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right.....

We didn’t have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house – not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she’s right.......

We didn’t have the green thing back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But we didn’t have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.

But isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart ass young person.

Remember: Don’t make old people mad.

We don’t like being old in the first place, so it doesn’t take much to piss us off.