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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 1831266" data-attributes="member: 3099"><p>I hear what you're saying. It could be done gradually if executed properly. I just keep comparing my grandfather's generation with today's. My grandfather was born in 1918. He was newly married when the great depression hit. He was very fortunate to have a job that paid $5.00 a day, most folks made less than half of that. One day he was at the movies with his cousins and they were horsing around afterwards, I don't know exactly what happened but he ended up getting his foot ran over by his cousin's car tire and broke his foot all to heck. This is why they wouldn't take him when he volunteered for military service at the start of WWII. Anyway he was in the grocery store where he ran a tab that he always paid and the grocer asked him about his foot. He also noted that since he couldn't work with the cast he would not be able to run his credit line until he went back to work. My grandfather went ahead and paid his tab that day since he went in there to do so anyway and he had a couple of dollars left over. So he bought a big sack of beans and a sack of cornmeal. His neighbor cut him a deal on milk from his cow and some eggs. He and grandma ate beans and cornbread 3 times a day for over two months while he healed up. Back then there was no disability, no unemployment, no nothing. But they survived with no help, grampa was too proud to take any. And he never ever spent his entire paycheck again as long as he lived, he always put something back even if it were only a few cents, "for a rainy day" he used to call it. And as long as I can remember back he never borrowed a dime for anything. If he wanted something he saved up for it and paid cash. He bought and paid for his own insurance. Grandma worked and saved for a long time to buy him a Browning Sweet 16 for an anniversary present. $400 bucks was a chunk of change in 1962. He lived until 1 month before he was to turn 90. I look at today's generation and what they do in similar situations. Quite a contrast of responsibility since the first place looked to is for a handout of some sort. Man it makes you wonder how anyone ever survived. Pretty pitiful state of affairs we live in today...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shadowrider, post: 1831266, member: 3099"] I hear what you're saying. It could be done gradually if executed properly. I just keep comparing my grandfather's generation with today's. My grandfather was born in 1918. He was newly married when the great depression hit. He was very fortunate to have a job that paid $5.00 a day, most folks made less than half of that. One day he was at the movies with his cousins and they were horsing around afterwards, I don't know exactly what happened but he ended up getting his foot ran over by his cousin's car tire and broke his foot all to heck. This is why they wouldn't take him when he volunteered for military service at the start of WWII. Anyway he was in the grocery store where he ran a tab that he always paid and the grocer asked him about his foot. He also noted that since he couldn't work with the cast he would not be able to run his credit line until he went back to work. My grandfather went ahead and paid his tab that day since he went in there to do so anyway and he had a couple of dollars left over. So he bought a big sack of beans and a sack of cornmeal. His neighbor cut him a deal on milk from his cow and some eggs. He and grandma ate beans and cornbread 3 times a day for over two months while he healed up. Back then there was no disability, no unemployment, no nothing. But they survived with no help, grampa was too proud to take any. And he never ever spent his entire paycheck again as long as he lived, he always put something back even if it were only a few cents, "for a rainy day" he used to call it. And as long as I can remember back he never borrowed a dime for anything. If he wanted something he saved up for it and paid cash. He bought and paid for his own insurance. Grandma worked and saved for a long time to buy him a Browning Sweet 16 for an anniversary present. $400 bucks was a chunk of change in 1962. He lived until 1 month before he was to turn 90. I look at today's generation and what they do in similar situations. Quite a contrast of responsibility since the first place looked to is for a handout of some sort. Man it makes you wonder how anyone ever survived. Pretty pitiful state of affairs we live in today... [/QUOTE]
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