That's right kids, rub it in. I'm keepin' an eye on the likes of you!
That's right kids, rub it in. I'm keepin' an eye on the likes of you!
My dad was 12.
Yall are a bunch of antiques!
Interesting post though. Seems that 1971 was a switch that started something.
Yall are a bunch of antiques!
Interesting post though. Seems that 1971 was a switch that started something.
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Hmmm i was 14 then and doing chores around our small ranch and hoeing peanuts during the summer which wasnt to bad the owners daughter was a looker and always wore a bikini to the feilds and i made sure to stay one row over and behind her.
It's funny...look at these lardbellied kids these days. No one wants to see most of them in a tube top or a bikini....
Some students just didn't learn....
In 1971 I had been out of the Army for 2 years. 1971 was the first year I earned more than $10k, which was pretty good back then. I quit that job to go to college on the GI Bill. I had a wife and 2 kids and lived in a 12x70 house trailer.
A lot of today's 23 year-olds live in their mom's basement, but some of them are hard workers and expect more out of life. The hard workers expect:
a 3500 sq.ft. "starter house"................compared to my 840 sq.ft. house trailer
a couple of 85" 4k TV's........................compared to my 13" black and white set
eat out 6 or 8 times a week..................compared to my daily sandwich lunch and, Sonic, maybe once a week
$1,000 cell phones, $150 concert tickets, expensive vacations, microwave ovens, gigabit internet, and a lot more I can't think of right now.
There are certainly a lot of young people who struggle, but there are also a lot of them who expect/have way more than I ever dreamed of at that age. Maybe what you should be looking at is, how many welfare, freebie, government giveaways are encouraging a large percentage of today's young people to be non-productive. Government intervention results in the less qualified and less productive being educated, hired and promoted because they fit a certain demographic. If you promote bad policies you should be prepared for bad results.
A lot of today's 23 year-olds live in their mom's basement, but some of them are hard workers and expect more out of life. The hard workers expect:
a 3500 sq.ft. "starter house"................compared to my 840 sq.ft. house trailer
a couple of 85" 4k TV's........................compared to my 13" black and white set
eat out 6 or 8 times a week..................compared to my daily sandwich lunch and, Sonic, maybe once a week
$1,000 cell phones, $150 concert tickets, expensive vacations, microwave ovens, gigabit internet, and a lot more I can't think of right now.
There are certainly a lot of young people who struggle, but there are also a lot of them who expect/have way more than I ever dreamed of at that age. Maybe what you should be looking at is, how many welfare, freebie, government giveaways are encouraging a large percentage of today's young people to be non-productive. Government intervention results in the less qualified and less productive being educated, hired and promoted because they fit a certain demographic. If you promote bad policies you should be prepared for bad results.
I was 7 years old and to this day I still don't expect or want . I lived in a 14'x 80' house trailer for 16 years after I got married.
Which one of us is growing senile? You were only 14 or 15 in 1971.
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