Posted on 07/23/2013 7:26:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In 1975:
1.You could buy an airline ticket and fly without ever showing an ID.
2.You could buy cough syrup without showing an ID.
3.You could buy and sell gold coins without showing an ID
4.You could buy a gun without showing an ID
5.You could pull as much cash out of your bank account without the bank filing a report with the government.
6.You could get a job without having to prove you were an American.
7.You could buy cigarettes without showing an ID
8.You could have a phone conversation without the government knowing who you called and who called you.
9. You could open a stock brokerage account without having to explain where the money came from.
10. You could open a Swiss bank account with ease. All Swiss banks were willing and happy to open accounts for Americans.
There are thousands of other examples.The monitoring is in place all that is required from here is the clampdown.
The differences, between now and 1975 in the business sector are even more prevalent. In recent years, in industry after industry regulations and prohibitions have been poured on top of free markets. It doesn't look like things will get any better in years to come. Eventually, the economy will suffocate and collapse, if this continues.
Quite true. Incrementalism is the leftists' method of choice.
That and division.
Keep em baffled with BS.
your a young un, I use to buy them for my mother at 19 cents a pack....:O) but the couner store use to make you have a note from your mother...Like a 7 year old smoked...rules were rules back then..back in the late 40’s...
Unless you dated the girl that had the father that came after me. ;)
I used to go to the store and buy chewing tobacco for my dad back in the 60s. By the 70s I was buying my own.
Also, a whipping at school meant you got another one when you got home.
I will say that when I refused to submit to undeserved corporal punishment at school, my dad believed me (I was telling the truth) and backed me up. I was in 7th Grade, and I'll always remember it as the day Dad treated me like a man for the first time.
I think he was a little proud of me for standing up for myself to adults... and it took some courage for me to do it.
In 1966 I rode my bicycle downtown with my best buddy George. We went to Diamond Hardware and I bought a Winchester 30/30 1866 Centennial Rifle with my mowing money. The gun was $125.00, a fortune. I was eleven. I carried it home in the box tied across the handlebars.
I still have the box and the gun.
Wow. $125 was indeed a fortune. Not just for a kid... that was serious money for ANYBODY!
Dad was a federal employee. Did OK but we were certainly not well off like they are so often now. We had medical insurance of course but it was not for everything and anything. Like you, we paid our own doctor bills out of pocket. Insurance was for the hospital.
I was always sick with tonsillitis and must have taken gallons of penicillin. I remember going to Rexall Drug and Mom getting the medicine. Never remember any real heavy concerns about the cost of the doc or the medicine.
Yeah, things have changed and not for the better. We had a Carnegie Library that was warm in the winter and cool in the summer with lots of books and a bike rack out front. We went there all the time to read. I read science books and Popular Mechanics and my friend read nature books. I became and engineer and he became a doctor. My buddy and I could ride our bikes just about anywhere in town, to the stockyards and to the airport. All the kids walked to school and played all the way home. We threw our paper route early in the mornings before school and raised the flag in our Cub Scout uniforms. When we went to the stockyards on Saturday we always got a hamburger and then went in to watch the auction. Two kids 7 to 9 years old at the counter on bar stools with all the ranchers and in our high top sneakers. We were hot stuff. People would see us around town and call our Moms to tell them where we were and that we were OK. We frequented the feed store to look at the Allis Chalmers tractors, the train station to see the people change trains from the Katy to the MoPac, the water plant just to watch the water being filtered, the Pepsi bottling plant to get an Orange Crush, the theater and later the bowling alley and the ice plant in the summer to cool off. We would pick up pop bottles to buy a Popsicle. When we got older we raced slot cars at the track downtown across from the barber shop.
It was dang near a Norman Rockwell childhood. That part of my life I’d do over every day and twice on Sunday! I’d give a lot if kids today could have that kind of childhood. If only America could be that way again.
Well I can tell you that when I was 13 I was buying my own cigs in just about any gas station in town:)
I see others refuted that well before me. Sorry for the redundancy! But heck we could buy liquor when we were teens as well. Moslty from the mexican ran liquor stores or arab gas stations.
Actually, you could:
a) put the coins in the cigarette vending machine, choose a brand, and pull the lever.
or, b) you could tell the clerk "they're for my Dad,"which didn't work all the time, but lot's of time, it did.
11. You could walk or bike outside your home ANYWHERE with expectation of privacy.
12. You could drive ANYWHERE in the USA with expectation of privacy, and you could drive car without a black box recording everything you were doing/everywhere you were going...
13. You could travel to Mexico or Canada without a passport.
14. You could buy ANY goods & services with expectation of privacy.
15. You could checkout ANY library book with expectation of privacy.
16. You could go to ANY physician with expectation of privacy
17. You could SAY WHAT YOU WANTED WITHOUT FEAR OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS....
18. You could PRETTY MUCH LIVE YOUR LIFE AS YOU SAW FIT
Anyone remember the Southwest Airline commercial “You are now free to move about the country”?? Well, not so much now...Hmm have not seen that commercial in a long time :(
I was 6 In 1975 and if it was summer I left the house after breakfast, found whatever friends were out, stopped playing for lunch and was back out again. After dinner was with the family and/ or kids came over to my house. We road our bikes to buy cheap candy and stayed out in the dark catching fireflies and playing hide and go seek.
I wish my kids could have one day where I felt I could say just go with your friends wherever and have fun. But I have to put a limit on them for safety reasons, and I only grew up about a half mile from where I presently sit.
No it just ain’t right it used to black long and flowing but most of it just flowed down the drain what is left is gray and spikey LOL Still I wouldn’t be young again for all the tea in Boston Harbor - I like being ....mature LOL
Mel
Ya have to laugh there’s too much crap in the world that makes you want to hate or be too angry for too long or be bitter. Laughter really is the best medicine!
Mel
Wrong, the feds have always tapped the phones, even going back to electro-mechanical switches in the 30's.
Bell Labs in NJ, a branch of AT&T, gave the feds the keys to the switches and there has been a funnel of technology and information from the phone companies to the feds for 80 years.
Kids could ride a bike without a helmet, play on jungle gyms, sliding boards and see saws on public school play grounds, swim in creeks and play outside all day.
This is very similar to the way I grew up. I’ve talked to friends recently about how innocent our growing up years were. It is so sad to see the youth of today living in this horrible culture.
I pray the Lord will fix it soon.
Actually because it generated so many comments, I will note many people said it wasn’t legal for minors to buy cigarettes but it wasn’t enforced, or you could get them from a vending machine, or with a note from your parent, or because the store owner knew you.
Sooo, were minors free to buy cigarettes in 1975?
In any event, I would not tend to judge the level of personal freedom on what kids could do, especially whether they could get cigarettes or booze.
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