Wrongo!!! Higher standard of living, yes, reward for their hard work.
Rising property values occured along with everything else but was not the goal in itself largely because people stayed put. Speculators and flippers were the “big boys”. In previous generations the stock market was limited to market nerds and big money. All that stock stuff was printed in the newspaper, really time consuming and specialized. Totally different mindset from today.
Social security was a trap set for the “something for nothing” crowd from the beginning. People who were paying attention hated FDR and his socialist policies.
Life kinda works the way it did during the American Revolution. Approx: One third of the people fought like hell. One third of the people were pro-royalists. One third stayed home and didn't give a damn.
We occasionally go to the big city, Santa Fe, New Mexico. We don't stay long...it's an enclave of every liberal, new age, old hippy, pagan religion, odd ball thing you can imagine. It's an embarrassment to the rest of us. I never went to college. I went to work in San Fransisco after high school in a downtown cafeteria. Wonderful place to see people, 1966. The hippy movement was exploding out of SFSU, and into the Haight Ashbury, free love drug culture. It was like it happened overnight! What a freak show! Big hair, weird clothes. I would look up from carving meat and laugh out loud at some of my customers. Where did these people come from? How did this happen? How could this foment in our universities and nobody notice? WHERE WERE THEIR PARENTS? It's a long boring story, but our public schools were already full of godless, liberal teachers deliberately undermining American history, Christian faith, morality, truth and patriotism when I was in Jr High and High School. The bottom line is, man apart from God is hopelessly selfish and evil. The hope of cure for any disease is the right diagnosis, in this case it's sin. Really living, real life is the never ending fight for truth. Always has been, will always be.
A very interesting post. A hearty AMEN to your simple, but totally accurate, conclusions.
“What a freak show! Big hair”
Afro
Hebro
Waspro
Wopro
Did I miss any?
The thing that sticks in my mind is military men from Letterman Army Medical Center in brand new uniforms, fresh haircuts, and bandaged wounds, some with crutches and wheelchairs, walking up Haight Street with looks of bewilderment. They had faced a deadly enemy with courage, but on Haight Street they found an enemy who might really pull their country down.
“weird clothes.”
IMO, those weren’t clothes, but costumes.
“The bottom line is, man apart from God is hopelessly selfish and evil.”
Busted. Just when I thought I was going to make it to the border, too.
“Really living, real life is the never ending fight for truth. Always has been, will always be.”
Sometimes the never-ending fight to keep a roof over your head and food on the table distracts a person from that.