Posted on 01/23/2004 4:02:12 PM PST by ZGuy
Indeed. One car is now two at least, kids used to sleep at least two to a bedroom. One TV, one phone, no VCR/DVD or computer, no cable.
Food was bought as ingredients and assembled at home. Few kids were involved in after school activities that required a cash outlay and nobody belonged to a gym. Clothing was often handed down from one child to another and if your sock had a hole you mended it instead of buying a new one.
That is so true! My new baby Rat Terrier is sleeping on my collar bone right now. I'm in love.
That's because you're in NC. They should move to PA, where we have among the highest paid teachers in the country. In our school district, I believe the AVERAGE is currently 64,000 for teachers. Administrators get 6 figure salaries...
The Democrats' sense of social justice won't be satisfied until the top 5% pay all the taxes and the remaining 95% pay none.
But what better way to ensure that the wealthiest among us will have the greatest influence on the government? After all, authority always comes with responsibility (like the responsibility to pay the government's expenses). He who pays the bills will be listened to.
Liberals don't understand that taking up responsibility is liberating because it is empowering. If liberals want the average Joe to take this country back from the fat cats, then the average Joe should pay a greater share of the taxes, not less. How's that for ironic!
And yet on some level liberals do understand this. Just look at how the mid-century feminists used the language of liberation to persuade women to go to work: no longer will your husband be your unquestioned king, because now you can pay your own way. Your increase in responsibility for the family finances for will give you increased authority in the family and the marriage relationship.
Well, it's the same thing here, it seems to me, except that Democrats are on the other side of the issue. They're telling the Average Joes to just let the Fat Cats pay the bills. And if Average Joe decide this is the way to go, then he'll be moving toward the role of chattel housewife and complaining about how the fat cats are running the show.
Democrats are always being hamstrung by these sorts of ironies. I think it's because they're always going around trying to shake their fist at the natural order of things. I wouldn't be surprised if the presence of irony is a special flag or indicator that you've broken the natural law in an especially flagrant way.
Thank goodness we've got the Republicans standing in there and keeping things from going off the irrational (but well-intended) cliff. A Democrat universe would have us all suffering under its ironies.
Kids owned neither unless they built it themselves or inherited it.
A watch was something you got for a graduation present.
"Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest." -- Professor Irwin Cory
As far as the numbers go, I'll go with IRS figures as opposed to some anonymous internet poster with an apparent jealousy problem.
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