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To: defconw
Don't need credentials to agree; that list is a sad indictment. Forgot one item between 5 & 6: the only non-white kid in a wealthy school.

As for the next American generation, so very, very sad. They simply cannot imagine what a luxury a high standard of everyday, commonsense, Ten Commandments-based morality was like. We didn't have a lot of money, but we had a lot of public trust.

As one example, the Tylenol scandal took place only in 1982 -- some evil person put cyanide into some bottles of Tylenol and placed them back on a drugstore shelf, and several people were injured or died. From that point onwards, almost all products started having to be sealed at the factory, driving prices up. Imagine -- for the first 206 years since 1776, an American could buy a container of most any consumer product and just open it up and pour some out.

97 posted on 07/02/2014 9:06:28 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: Albion Wilde
I graduated from high school in 1982. My whole life seems like everything has been in flux. But the the thing I did have that these kids today don't have is parents that stayed married to each other. That we had. We were taken to Church. We had grandparents that were married to each other.

Now it's really no wonder these kids don't get married. I remember having to ask in 1975, what a divorce was. One friends parents were getting one. I had no idea. Now!

Our one great niece by way of example. Her Maternal and Paternal grandparents are all divorced and remarried. Her mother never married her father but did marry someone else whose parents are divorced. She has two sons with a man, whose parents are divorced and remarried and all his grandparents are divorced. Now our niece has married a man who has a child and I have no freaking clue if he's a good guy or not. Can you imagine these poor kids?

I can remember being confused at my dad's large family, but at least everyone was related!

98 posted on 07/02/2014 9:20:48 AM PDT by defconw (LUTFA!)
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