- Stocking up for emergencies - 2 Updates
- On "The Decline of Thrift in America," boomers, and their parents - 2 Updates
| ggggg9271@gmail.com: Jan 24 12:30AM -0800 On Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 10:26:17 AM UTC-8, CJ wrote: > week or two supply. I figure if things aren't back in shape after that > much time, we're all screwed anyway.... > CJ https://www.keloland.com/video/study-finds-majority-of-americans-dont-save-for-emergencies/4270504/ |
| ItsJoan NotJoann <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: Jan 24 04:05PM -0800 > > Maybe this belongs in some survivalist newsgroup, but I figure I'm more > > likely to get rational answers in the consumer-oriented newsgroups. > > CJ - - - - Content snipped for brevity. - - - - > https://www.keloland.com/video/study-finds-majority-of-americans-dont-save-for-emergencies/4270504/ Bore shitless, eh? Dragging up fourteen (14) year old posts to reply to. Good grief. |
| ggggg9271@gmail.com: Jan 24 01:08PM -0800 > "But holes began to appear in the thrift ethic during World War I. Tucker says the damage was done mostly by two forces that had been around in a primitive form for years, but that suddenly became sophisticated and widespread: advertising and credit." > (The idea of thrift pretty much disappeared from American media and schools in the 1970s. D. said that T. said that one small ray of hope for the future lies in the Keynesian economists dying off.) > Lenona. https://www.google.com/search?biw=1366&bih=657&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=860qXpudHIne-gTkrKzABg&q=fortune+cookie+sayings+%22your+fortune+is+in+another+cookie%22&oq=fortune+cookie+sayings+%22your+fortune+is+in+another+cookie%22&gs_l=img.3...84137.91401..91735...0.0..0.447.5003.14j22j1j0j1......0....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i67j0j0i8i30.lrhEOuPAtOE&ved=0ahUKEwjb4qDm65vnAhUJr54KHWQWC2gQ4dUDCAc&uact=5#imgrc=6RPN9ASyiOypuM: |
| ggggg9271@gmail.com: Jan 24 02:22PM -0800 > We are probably the only members of society in the history of mankind for which the younger generation has so little respect and has demonstrated such a shameful lack of regard. > Senior citizens are constantly being criticized, belittled and sniped at for every conceivable deficiency of the modern world, real and imaginary. > Upon reflection, I would like to point out that it wasn`t the senior citizens who took the melody out of music, or the beauty out of art... - Atonality was the great barrier reef on which modern music shattered, as the stream-of-consciousness was the torpedo that sank the novel and abstraction the anesthetic that put painting to sleep. Bernard Levin |
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