Maybe we Needed This?

[JudasGoat]

We've been living high on the hog and beyond our means for so long now, maybe we needed a stiff wake up call. I'm not bashing America and I'm not one of those douschey class-war mongers. I'm just trying to question some positives.
Even in the midst of this financial crisis, game sales are still up. Really? I remember a few years ago people whining about not finding work yet continuing to get coffee at Starbucks every morning. :rolleyes:
Maybe this will bring a hard reality check for people across many lines. POlitical, financial, personal responsibility etc. Maybe it'll help the family unit. Families will be broke to the point of spending more time and depending on each other more. People will learn how to budget things. They'll learn the difference between wants and needs.

[USAF Medic]

JG,

You might be right.
Many Americans have been living the illusion of prosperity through credit for a long time.
Now they (we) are paying the piper and he wants his due

[USAF Medic]

JG,

You might be right.
Many Americans have been living the illusion of prosperity through credit for a long time.
Now they (we) are paying the piper and he wants his due

Ray

[JudasGoat]

JG,

You might be right.
Many Americans have been living the illusion of prosperity through credit for a long time.
Now they (we) are paying the piper and he wants his due

Ray

yes, much like V.I.N.C.E.N.T. said in The Black Hole; "If one dances, one must pay the piper..."

[MrShotShot]

For those of us with elderly friends and relatives who lived during the Great Depression, we (me included) often snicked when they saved things like rubber bands from the newspaper, twist ties from bread, bread bags, washed and resued paper towels, darned thier socks, etc.

Perhaps we should have been learning a thing or two from them all of these years.

[Dreamy]

For those of us with elderly friends and relatives who lived during the Great Depression, we (me included) often snicked when they saved things like rubber bands from the newspaper, twist ties from bread, bread bags, washed and resued paper towels, darned thier socks, etc.

Perhaps we should have been learning a thing or two from them all of these years.

I could not agree with you more. I remember the stories and not getting it. I think we all need to learn some life lessons.

[LouC]

There is merit to what you are saying.

Two things from this past week tell me you are on to something.

"When the officer told her this was not an emergency situation, Goodman is reported as saying, "This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn't have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don't want one. This is an emergency."

And this.

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk296/bigoldfartdude/poorwithphone1.jpg

Our First Lady serving meals in a D.C. Soup Kitchen while the paparazzi "poor" take her picture with their cell phones.

[BillBrown]

We've been living high on the hog and beyond our means for so long now, maybe we needed a stiff wake up call. I'm not bashing America and I'm not one of those douschey class-war mongers. I'm just trying to question some positives.
Even in the midst of this financial crisis, game sales are still up. Really? I remember a few years ago people whining about not finding work yet continuing to get coffee at Starbucks every morning. :rolleyes:
Maybe this will bring a hard reality check for people across many lines. POlitical, financial, personal responsibility etc. Maybe it'll help the family unit. Families will be broke to the point of spending more time and depending on each other more. People will learn how to budget things. They'll learn the difference between wants and needs.

If this becomes no worse that the Great Depression, I agree with you, to an extent.

We will not learn the political lesson, though. We will continue believing that the problem was not enough government regulation over the marketplace. We will think that the government did not do enough.
That will set it up to happen all over again.

[Dreamy]

If this becomes no worse that the Great Depression, I agree with you, to an extent.

We will not learn the political lesson, though. We will continue believing that the problem was not enough government regulation over the marketplace. We will think that the government did not do enough.
That will set it up to happen all over again.


So very true. I worthwhile caution and wisdom so few get.

[JudasGoat]

There is merit to what you are saying.

Two things from this past week tell me you are on to something.



And this.

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk296/bigoldfartdude/poorwithphone1.jpg

Our First Lady serving meals in a D.C. Soup Kitchen while the paparazzi "poor" take her picture with their cell phones.

unreal. my cell phone is a 5 year old model, with no camera. that guy's camera is nicer than mine. but then, maybe that's why he's 'poor'.