{"id":1421,"date":"2012-09-16T14:24:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T14:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2012\/09\/16\/who-would-have-believed-this-just-25-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2012-09-16T14:24:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T14:24:41","slug":"who-would-have-believed-this-just-25-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2012\/09\/16\/who-would-have-believed-this-just-25-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Who would have believed this just 25 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nRandom thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>\tThe US credit rating has been downgraded again<\/p>\n<p>\tMillions of Americans have lost their jobs. They have little chance of getting another job with the same pay\/benefits<\/p>\n<p>\tOur youth are getting hosed by high flying collegees that blow $$ and overcompensate the faculty. This is financed by a US government Financial Aid and student loan bubble. The students leave school with huge loans and no job prospects.<\/p>\n<p>\tOur boys are being slaughtered by the people they are there to help. Their deaths barely register to americans<\/p>\n<p>\tMost American have no intrest in our troops. They do not even realize they are fighting<\/p>\n<p>\tThe President go to Fund raisers on the same day our Ambassadors body is brougt home<\/p>\n<p>\tWe are sinking into a mountain of debt as we transfer our wealth to every country in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\tWe are stopping Isreal from destroying Irans nuclear goal<\/p>\n<p>\tSingle mom households are the norm<\/p>\n<p>\tGenerations rely on welfare, work is not a consideration.   <\/p>\n<p>\tGANGS have risen through the country.  Their power and influence is growing. The average guy has no idea<\/p>\n<p>\tDiseases  once only known only in remote african villages are appearing in the US (West Nile, Dengey Fever)<\/p>\n<p>\tAlzheimers disease is looming for millions, yet it is funded at a fraction of other diseases<\/p>\n<p>\tPrisons are basically run by inmates<\/p>\n<p>\tIllegal aliens are bankrupting hospitals<\/p>\n<p>\tNewark Mayor Cory Booker wants to give Bodega Clerks Bullet Proff vests (it is like Mad Max)<\/p>\n<p>\tThe free market that was once Wall street is now rigged by Bankers and hedge funds. All the politicians are in on it<\/p>\n<p>\tOur youth (black and white)listen to Rap music which calls women sluts and whores. It glorifies violence.  <\/p>\n<p>\tTelevision which had shows like Gunsmoke, I love Lucy, Hill Street Blues, Bonanza, Andy Griffith now show hours of trash such as NJ Housewives<\/p>\n<p>\tTwo men are running for president with soujdbite campaigns. None give a clear message telling us how thwy will  attack our problems<\/p>\n<p>\tGas $4 a gallon<\/p>\n<p>\tWe treat actors as though they are working on the cure for cancer or world peace. We pay them million while medical researchers are paid a pittance<\/p>\n<p>\tJust what comes to mind&#8230;.. Your thoughts?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Guest on September 16, 2012, 4:46 pm<\/p>\n<div>Great post.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Skinny on September 16, 2012, 6:17 pm<\/p>\n<div>Interesting point in this week&#8217;s Ask Marilyn column:<\/p>\n<p>\tBy 1950, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 34 percent of women (and 86 percent of men) were employed.<\/p>\n<p>\tAnother interesting point: <strong><u><span style=\"font-size: 1120px\">In 87 percent of families, both a husband and a wife were present<\/span><\/u><\/strong>; in those families, 20 percent of the wives were employed.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.parade.com\/askmarilyn\/2012\/09\/16-sunday-column.html\"><span style=\"font-size: 1120px\">Click here to read the entire column<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Guest on September 16, 2012, 6:30 pm<\/p>\n<div>Scan we are seeing a breakdown. Daniel Patrick Moynahan called this reducing deviency down.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Stickman on September 16, 2012, 6:44 pm<\/p>\n<div>I cannot help but respond in the words of a former GTC instructor &#8211; &quot;watch your future end.&quot; Scan, taking your thoughts into consideration, these words ring true.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Dogleg on September 17, 2012, 2:02 am<\/p>\n<div>Amost all the problems go from &quot;oh don&#8217;t worry about it &quot; to &quot; it&#8217;s to late to do anything&quot; so there is never a point to act.<\/p>\n<p>\tfrom the illigal alien problem to the nucleur Iran problem to the housing fannie may problem etc. etc. etc. <\/p>\n<p>\tIt seems to be by design!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>\tI still can&#8217;t figure out why we write checks for billions to the terrorist. I thought they were who we were fighting.  I love the USA and I think we are idiots.  Can you imagine what the ones that hate us think while they are cashing our checks.  We borrowed the money from communist China for Gods sake!!!!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random thoughts: The US credit rating has been downgraded again Millions of Americans have lost their jobs. They have little chance of getting another job with the same pay\/benefits Our youth are getting hosed by high flying collegees that blow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-we-live-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}