Dub
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Hey Boomers, what do you think?
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Dub
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HughW2
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There is no doubt the greatest generation of Americans was born in 1920-30. They were toughened by the challenge of the great depression and were capable to face the challenges we faced in WWII. I am a late boomer and happily reaped the rewards and prosperity of this great country through what I consider our greatest years 1974-84. I think we started faltering as a society around 84-85 and ever since it has been a down hill slide that only seems to be accelerating. Every great society has its rise and its downfall. I hope we are not going to allow our country to follow the Northern European model.
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Redbow
Senior Member
With what I have seen in this life our great society really started slipping downward in the last half of the 1960's. Its been steadily happening ever since. Everyone has their opinion about things, just my .02 cents worth.
fishfryer
frying fish driveler
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notnksnemor
The Great and Powerful Oz
Batjack
Cap`n Jack 1313
O.K., just go ahead and blame it all on me. That's the year me, the falcons, and the braves all got to Atlanta. Everybody all had big plans for all of us.....
GeorgiaBob
Senior Member
I got my first paying job at 12 years old and was thrilled to be able to work less and get paid! My high school years included keeping a thirty year old car running, working two jobs, still doing my chores, helping my brothers, taking care of a 135 pound German Shepard, sharing one dial phone with three brothers and my parents, music, rifle team, Scouts, Order of DeMolay, ROTC, the regular school work, and trying to find time to go steady. My schedule was little different from my friends. If you weren't some spaced out dope fiend from San Francisco, the 60's were busy.
I see very few teenagers who even attempt such a schedule these days. I think one of the problems today is the kids have it FAR TOO EASY.
oldfella1962
Senior Member
Don't blame me - I was only a toddler!
Baroque Brass
Senior Member
In what ways?
Liberty
Senior Member
Unless the corrupt Johnson Administration drafted you and sent you to Vietnam against your will.
notnksnemor
The Great and Powerful Oz
We were in 'nam way before Johnson.
He just said "hold my beer".
1eyefishing
...just joking, seriously.
FWIW- There was plenty of us boomers climbing trees when I said out loud, "If we ever teach those messicans how climb and rig trees and run a chainsaw we're gonna be in trouble."
Dont blame the illegal immigrant problem on the business owner class.
The government gives them driver's licenses and welfare and let them vote. The banks give them loans and realtors sell them houses.
Why should it be up to the business owner to discern? Who is here legally and who is not. I say that's a number one role of the government. And they are not doing their job.
I always tell my kids, now in their early 50s, they were the last generation of "free range kids". Now children have there whole childhood scheduled and mapped out.
Being born in the late 1940s to the early 70s put you in the best decades in which to grow up. Life was just simpler. Didn't have much materially but we built a lifetime of memories. I fortunately live in the same town I grew up in. I am reminded every day of the great childhood and childhood friends I had. There wasn't any "rec dept." You got up and did your chores then went off to gather up a ball game or a dirt clog war. Best days were just after they dug the ditches and clogs were fresh and exploded when they hit the target. Sling shots and green dates from the palm trees the dotted the town. Amazingly we never put any ones eye out. But it was hard to explain to Mama where the whelps came from.
We led a modern day version of Tom Sawyer.
Being born in the late 1940s to the early 70s put you in the best decades in which to grow up. Life was just simpler. Didn't have much materially but we built a lifetime of memories. I fortunately live in the same town I grew up in. I am reminded every day of the great childhood and childhood friends I had. There wasn't any "rec dept." You got up and did your chores then went off to gather up a ball game or a dirt clog war. Best days were just after they dug the ditches and clogs were fresh and exploded when they hit the target. Sling shots and green dates from the palm trees the dotted the town. Amazingly we never put any ones eye out. But it was hard to explain to Mama where the whelps came from.
We led a modern day version of Tom Sawyer.
Kev
Senior Member
I Didn’t blame the problem on the business class. I was just stating a fact. I worked in the tree removal business and then in the pipeline business for years and 75% of the employees in the field were illegal.
1eyefishing
...just joking, seriously.
And it wasn't that way in the eighties and early nineties.
Kev
Senior Member
I would be considered a millennial and that’s how we lived. I use to stay out roaming all day and then if it got late at night I would often hear my dad whistle extremely loud. That meant get your tail home.
I would say technology is the number one thing to ruin kids in America and then second would be the dramatic increase in population in a lot of areas.
livinoutdoors
Goatherding Non-socialist Bohemian Luddite
Lil fellers can climb a tree mo better. Makes sense.
1eyefishing
...just joking, seriously.
I knew how to take advantage of my height, my extra reach, and my ability to leverage further away from the cut I was making.
livinoutdoors
Goatherding Non-socialist Bohemian Luddite
I will put a notch in about any size tree you want and fell it. If i have to climb it more than tree stand height im done.I knew how to take advantage of my height, my extra reach, and my ability to leverage further away from the cut I was making.
