simme
Old Dumb Guy
It's called responsibility.I suppose it was easier to get by when you could just ride your dinosaur to school.
It's called responsibility.I suppose it was easier to get by when you could just ride your dinosaur to school.
Chalking it up to personal responsibility without acknowledging that circumstances have changed a lot is intellectually lazy.It's called responsibility.
Well we are certainly blessed to have someone of your intellectual ability and work ethic. Yes, things have changed a lot - for the worse.Chalking it up to personal responsibility without acknowledging that circumstances have changed a lot is intellectually lazy.
Economically, yes they have.Well we are certainly blessed to have someone of your intellectual ability and work ethic. Yes, things have changed a lot - for the worse.
Some of us came to the same conclusion some time ago. Your analysis and observation are spot on.Well we are certainly blessed to have someone of your intellectual ability and work ethic. Yes, things have changed a lot - for the worse.
What an idiot! Apparently, I learned a hell of a lot more than you did! We didn't have to have designer clothes. new cars, and $500 tennis shoes to go to college, son. And those who did have them? They worked for them or their parents bought them,. not the taxpayers! I rode a motorcycle my 1st year at UGA, didn't have a car, and I made it just fine!!I suppose it was easier to get by when you could just ride your dinosaur to school.
Well we are certainly blessed to have someone of your intellectual ability and work ethic. Yes, things have changed a lot - for the worse.
With the dinosaur comment in regard to the mid-seventies, I assume the claim is that we have worse economic conditions now than in the seventies. I can't agree with that. I was already an adult in the 70's - some on here probably were not. But I have experienced both the 70's and the present. Around my area, the standard of living is better today. Better housing for sure. Better medical care. Better employment opportunities. Better recreational opportunities. More people in the middle class, especially minorities. Many families in the 70's had only one vehicle. Now, one for each family member with maybe a spare for pulling the travel trailer and the boat and the horse trailer - things that few people here had in the 70's. Better school facilities for sure (not claiming that the education is better, but maybe). Many more service and retail businesses, which I associate with economic improvement.Economically, yes they have.
I have no memory of the 70s at all (or the 80s, for that matter). There are definitely some things that are better now. Affordability of higher education is not one of them. People in my parents' and grandparents' generation could pay for a public school degree with part time work (so they tell me). Not so today.With the dinosaur comment in regard to the mid-seventies, I assume the claim is that we have worse economic conditions now than in the seventies. I can't agree with that. I was already an adult in the 70's - some on here probably were not. But I have experienced both the 70's and the present. Around my area, the standard of living is better today. Better housing for sure. Better medical care. Better employment opportunities. Better recreational opportunities. More people in the middle class, especially minorities. Many families in the 70's had only one vehicle. Now, one for each family member with maybe a spare for pulling the travel trailer and the boat and the horse trailer - things that few people here had in the 70's. Better school facilities for sure (not claiming that the education is better, but maybe). Many more service and retail businesses, which I associate with economic improvement.
Things that have changed for the worse - Obesity. When we rode those dinosaurs to college, people were not nearly as overweight as they are today. Laziness - I think laziness increases with prosperity. Petty theft and home break-ins and respect for the police - way worse now. AND personal responsibility. People definitely want to present themselves as the victim now.
Do you remember the 70's differently? Maybe it is just me that improved my economic conditions - probably due to my sense of responsibility.
Well that explains a lot. A product of the poor me generation. I narrowly missed it as I am in my 40's now or maybe I was just blessed with parents that taught me better. I do have a younger sister in her late 20's who has a college degree she paid for all on her own so I guess it can be done.I have no memory of the 70s at all (or the 80s, for that matter). There are definitely some things that are better now. Affordability of higher education is not one of them. People in my parents' and grandparents' generation could pay for a public school degree with part time work (so they tell me). Not so today.
Some memories may be unreliable - crime rates are generally lower now than they were then:
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Poor me? I'm blessed as well. Paid my own way and debt free. Not everyone is so lucky (and I will freely acknowledge that luck has a lot to do with it).Well that explains a lot. A product of the poor me generation. I narrowly missed it as I am in my 40's now or maybe I was just blessed with parents that taught me better. I do have a younger sister in her late 20's who has a college degree she paid for all on her own so I guess it can be done.
I beg to differ. The line between success and failure is often razor thin, and one does not necessarily have to do anything wrong to land on tough times.Winning the lottery is luck, having a college degree you paid for yourself is anything but luck.
You aren't special. Some people's lives are nothing but the cactus.If you land on a cactus you gonna lay there or get up and pick the spines out your azz? Same difference as hard times, I have encountered both.
You are right. We all live in the same cactus patch. Some cry about the thorns and others make cactus wine. It's all what you make of it.If you land on a cactus you gonna lay there or get up and pick the spines out your azz? Same difference as hard times, I have encountered both.