Posted by NCWayne on April 24, 2008 at 18:11:26 from (166.82.206.74):
We all talk about rising gas prices, work being sent overseas or across the border, and on and on and on. Funny thing is when we talk about things like this it"s like it"s the first time in history these kinds of things have happened. The world is an ever changing place and I know it has changed alot just over the course of my lifetime. Something that never seems to change though are the things that people, in general, worry and fuss about. Why do I say this you ask. Well awhile back I found alot of old newspapers with dates starting in 1954 and going through the early 60"s right after Kennedy took office. They had been used as insulation/padding under the carpet in my Aunt and Uncles house. It"s a shame that all I got to salvage was what didn"t burn when the local VFD torched the house for practice...but that"s not the point. My point is I"ve read alot of the articles in these old papers and people way back then had the same concerns we have today. I remember distinctly one article from like "58 talking about how all the good American jobs were headed overseas and everyone here would be out of work before it was over. There were blurbs here and there about the price of gas and groceries, which though cheap by todays prices, were still comparibly priced when you looked at the average income. There were articles about the minimunm wage needing to be raised so the lower class could survive. There were the articles concerning racial tensions, classifieds offering houses, services, etc to only the whites and then others offering the same things to the "colored" folks. Articles about the youth of the day and how they were nothing like the kids when the writer was growing up. Basically if it"s an issue today, from the things I read, it has been around, in some form or version, for at least the last 54 years. While the times have changed things somewhat, I"m sure the same issues that were had back then, and are had now, will still be around in another 54 years in some form or another. The world changes, we all fuss about how good it used to be and how bad it"s gonna be, and I know I"m as guilty of that as anyone on here when it comes to that. We can fuss all we want to about this and that, we can be happty or sad about the way things are, but what it all boils down to in the end is that life goes on and no matter what happens in the world each of our lives is only as good or bad as we choose to make it. But that"s just my opinion for what it"s worth....
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