My parents were born in 1902 and 1904 so I grew up with parents who were in their 40's when I was born and the story of onion sandwichs were talked about often. I am one who always has enough canned goods for a bad storm. I was very uneasy when I bought a car that was not paid for with cash. Quinta
Don't get your girdle in a knot! A lot of us "old folks" don't have houses (although I've now been approved for a modest home loan) and many of the pensions people thought they were going to have are now non-existent. If you want to blame somebody (and there's certainly enough blame to go around), add to your blame list the lenders who encouraged people with bad credit and spending habits to borrow beyond their means and borrowers who couldn't tell the difference between what they needed and what they wanted. They may have wanted that new SUV and the 5,000 sq ft house, but did they really need them? Were they all Republicans? I'm sure that many of those borrowers and lenders were Democrats or of no affiliation. One thing for sure, greed and bad judgement are not the sole purview or raison d'etre of Republicans. Blaming is easy, ferreting out the truth is hard. My parents were children of the depression. I grew up in a very fiscally conservative home. Debt and borrowing were discouraged at my house. I'm not sure who raised this generation who thought they were entitled to run this nation into debt, but it wasn't my generation. Life is easy; comedy is hard!
