[Tijeras_Slim]

He wasn’t an easy man; he was down on America, too, even after we gave him asylum. He thought us decadent before we really had become decadent. What did he know that we didn’t?

What Tom Paine knew over 200 years ago.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.

[miss marmelstein]

And yet we fought the Civil War, WWI and WW2! Was that cheap? On the other hand, it does seem to me that life after WW2 may have been too easy. Our parents gave us too soft a life because they didn’t want us to experience what they had gone through. Although, again, 59,000 men (a lot of baby boomers!) died in Viet Nam so that didn’t come too cheaply either.

Color me confused, Slim.