for those of you who have lived through the 60's through present as an adult...(adult =18 plus)...what is your opinion of our current state of affairs?
vietnam...gas crunch and general shittiness of the 70's, the reagan era....are we living in the shittiest of all of the previously mentioned times? is this
as bad as it has been in the past 50 years?
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a question for posters of a "certain age"
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a question for posters of a "certain age" |
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Posts: 622 (10/05/08 7:43 PM) Registered user |
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goner1 |
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Posts: 5623 (10/05/08 7:57 PM) Registered User |
IDK...likely worse? Was Joe Sixpack back then really carrying the credit burden he is now? Likely not. I'm a bit younger than you're looking for (*bats
eyelashes*) but I do remember the late 70s and people dumping their gas guzzling cars in favor of Chevettes and Pintos.
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Posts: 15860 (10/05/08 8:36 PM) Monkey tamer |
this thread has CBR written all over it
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Mister Slippery |
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Karl Pilkington wrote:Hang on. It's gonna be a bumpy Millenuium |
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Loki |
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Posts: 15862 (10/05/08 8:43 PM) Monkey tamer |
old AND fat^^
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FineWine2 |
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Posts: 462 (10/05/08 8:51 PM) Registered user |
I'm afraid the worst is yet to come. |
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Loki wrote:and your point ? |
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Loki |
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Posts: 15863 (10/05/08 8:58 PM) Monkey tamer |
um,
Loki 1 Slip 0 there's my point? |
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Pahrump Mania |
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Posts: 1939 (10/05/08 8:59 PM) Registered user |
The economy isn't as bad as the late 70s and early 80s, but the potential is there for it to get a lot worse.
The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars aren't killing as many Americans as the Vietnam War did, but they don't look like they're ending anytime soon. Aids isn't getting worse, so that's a small victory. Race relations seem to be better, but I'm a white guy so I guess I can't say for sure. Cancer is more treatable every year, and we understand and treat heart disease better, and we smoke less, but we're getting fatter all the time. We're still debating whether people who are here illegally belong here. China and Russia still aren't as scary as the USSR was. Americans still love to work, and as long as we do our standard of living will remain high. |
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I have a hard time answering those questions. I was at a different point in my life and every age brings different problems. It makes comparison difficult.
I remember driving across country from San Diego to Norfolk for a job change in the early 70s and worrying if we would be able to find gas along the way, gas lines, every other day gas purchases, doubling the price at the pump because most pumps were not equipped for gas prices over 99 cents. We currently don't have double digit inflation, but I don't know what is coming. Viet Nam was fought with a drafted army, there was a lot more resentment towards the war because of that. I have to believe that with an all volunteer army that people are joining knowing that they could be sent to war and therefore believe in the cause. How the stock market was behaving then, I haven't a clue. I didn't have any investments then. Now that I am less than four years, seven months and one day away from retiring and my IRA is in the market, it scares me. |
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Loki wrote:Darling, I believe that the only reason you might now that I'm FAT is because I told you so. You can count your fantasy points any way you want. Doesn't change the price of tea in china! |
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Posts: 5626 (10/05/08 9:08 PM) Registered User |
OMC! THE PRICE OF TEA IN CHINA HAS SHOT THROUGH THE ROOF!!!
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Loki |
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Posts: 15864 (10/05/08 9:09 PM) Monkey tamer |
you told me you were fat? Cause I was just joking.
fine fine Loki: 1 Slip: lame Chinese Tea: priceless |
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goner1 |
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Posts: 5627 (10/05/08 9:09 PM) Registered User |
And I'm all out of tea
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Mom HOLIO wrote:Between Drugs, Aids and The War the resulting toll was devastating. But we are a resilient people, and despite the negative effect of sharing a border with canada I think we'll be ok. Would anybody like some tea? |
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Vicconius |
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Posts: 13787 (10/05/08 9:27 PM) I want "this won't end well" too. |
The 60s are romanticized too much.
A war that killed tens of thousands of young people. A draft of said young people. Assassinations - JFK, RFK, MLK Cold War Cuban Missile Crisis Race Riots Political Riots Kent State (just barely after the 60s) Bell bottoms and paisley Lack of bathing But the music was good. |
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Posts: 16993 (10/05/08 9:27 PM) |
I'm sorry, but I don't remember tough economic times in the late 60s or 70s like there is now. Early 80s for a bit, I remember.
Then again, agreeing with what MomH said, being at a different time in your life for each of these brings a different perspective. What we're experiencing now is far more scarier to me. |
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Posts: 21726 (10/05/08 9:29 PM) MESS member |
I was against the Vietnam War and detested LBJ
No gas crunch in the 60s - it came in the 70s and I remember long lines to get gas - I was a poor college student so it really took a bite out of my budget Credit wasn't as common back then and it was hard to get a real credit card back then. I don't think they had mortgages that didn't require a lot of money as a down payment. Even college loans weren't that common. I had to work my way through college. On the other hand, I don't think that there was this sinking feeling in the 60s that the economy was going downhill. The generation of the 60s/early 70s thought they could make a difference and life was open to all sorts of possibilities, but then we were young, naive (way more so then the current generation) and eager. I don't remember the 30-40 somethings of the 60s/70s as being that worried about the future. Most of the 30-40 year olds when they got jobs expected to stay there the rest of their lives. Minorities are now way more integrated into society - you very rarely saw a white man with a boss who was female or a boss who wasn't white. 60s/70s was also when women began to be more that nurses, secretaries, teacher, librarians and foord service workers. However, I'd say that the great depression was the worst time of this decade - we don't yet have the degree of unemployment and people barely making it that we had then. My parents were born and had their early childhoods then and everything I've read or heard about from that time is far worse than we have at this time. |
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Loki |
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Posts: 15865 (10/05/08 9:30 PM) Monkey tamer |
^^ told you
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Bernard Wrangler |
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Posts: 9952 (10/05/08 9:33 PM) this won't end well.
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loki: 2
the rest of us: not so much |
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Mister Slippery |
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Vicconius wrote:X on the over romanticized 60's All you have to do is visit the Haight Ashbury to remind you how bad Hippys smelled (still smell). And our generations music is STILL good! |
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