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mona_cox

Greatest Generation sounds off on economic crisis

Feb 28, 2009 11:01

SPOKANE -- They won a World War, survived the Great Depression and they say if we would've learned from history, even read history, we wouldn't be in this economic mess ( Read more... )

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sarmonster February 28 2009, 23:36:13 UTC

Fuckin' A!

Grandmother lived off of unripe grapes during the depression.
One of my clients drives a lexus SUV and lives in one of Seattle's most expensive neighborhoods says she doesn't have enough to pay us.
*stabstabstab* I should put a lein on her house.

mona_cox March 1 2009, 01:03:40 UTC

I don't understand the sense of entitlement that most Americans seem to have now. What happened to common sense??

sarmonster March 1 2009, 01:21:50 UTC

I think it got replaced by bureaucracy, laws, and measures taken "for insurance purposes" and "Safety".
As far as entitlement... It's easy to blame parents, but even poor kids seem to have an "I deserve" complex. Likely a huge combination of the economic climate, business behavior, and the most obvious: people not seeing stock trading as gambling.
We are ALL guilty of taking what we have for granted.

NEVER ask what you deserve. There are better, more moral, harder working people than us in this world. They are living in aluminum shacks and rationed a cup of millet a day.

What do we do about it? This guy has a point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jETv3NURwLc

mona_cox March 1 2009, 12:02:24 UTC

That video is great- i posted it Dec. 19th.