In the old days people would dust themselves off and do it again. Never quit, never give up. The safety net is to big now. If you fail, you just whine and take handouts.
Milk and ice were delivered in horse drawn wagons along with the junk man that when down the alley blowing his horn and you would take stuff out that he could pick up. (not garbage). Parents worried about Polio in the summer and one time our house was quarantined because one of us kids had either measles or chicken pox...The doctor came to the house and put the sign on the door. My father couldn't come home for over a week...
Compare that to what we live with today and I'd say everyone is too blame....Kids want to start out today with a house the size that it took there parents 30 years to pay off...how many TV, phones, a/c and computers are in the homes of those that want to blame those born before 1960. I had 2 sisters and 1 brother and we lived in a 2 bedroom home in Detroit when it was the 4th largest city in the country.
Brother slept on a day bed in the dining room and 4 months out of the year my grandmother lived with us. Mother and her brothers took care of their mother, no nursing homes for her. I slept in a crib until I was 5. We were typical middle class of the day.
Our generation is not the one's that need all the goodies that those born after the 60's want and have...
Just what the government promised in the 1940's...But the government added more and more receipents to the SS rolls. It started out as strichly a small pension for the elderly. In those days there were still old people homes, not the greatest place to live and most that did were elderly women...Men died first, just like today.
To those that complaine about SS quite paying it, tell the government to go to hell and see how long you stay out of prison...we didn't make the rules.
Some sound as stupid as ex senator Simpson that call the elderly greedy geezer and he has sucked off the taxpayers all his life. As senator, with a lush retirement plan, all the graft he could aquire during his tenure as senator and he never had to pay SS. The taxpayers, you and me gave his his lush life....A few of the freepers on this thread sound just like him...he was a rino after all....