General Discussion

Just as there was 'no comparison' to my day as opposed to my parents or grandparents day. (If I had shown my eight year old father a reel to reel tape machine, which they did have at the time, he would have sat there with a very confused look on his face. Assuming he didn't start up with yelling about 'the devil!'. I mean, all he knew was 45 speed records and the radio where they played 45s. Different time.)

There are specifics that are different, but to borrow and paraphrase a line from the first 'Men In Black':

"There are always 'worse times', or 'bad periods' or 'historically rough times' in every generation."

And, I will remind you that I specifically said I did not have to deal with the dangers of school shootings, and therefore had no frame of reference for that.

I was/am always a ball of stress and anxiety. I am very glad that you were not.

Growing up poor is growing up poor. So far, that doesn't seem to be different from generation to generation.

But, if they decide to cut their losses from that program, it won't matter to myself. I don't have that long anyway, and Social Security has already told me to eat a big one twice. So, they can go for it.

But, the constant blanket blame game, especially when someone like myself, growing up on a farm in the middle of nowhere, had no way to have had anything to do with that, just gets a little old is all.