07-09-2016, 11:13 PM
(07-09-2016, 10:33 PM)taramarie Wrote:(07-09-2016, 10:14 PM)Galen Wrote:(07-09-2016, 10:08 PM)taramarie Wrote: Sorry just catching up now. It was late and had to go to bed. I just got back from work today. Will get myself sorted and check on your link. Yes well the kiwi is trying to part truth from fiction. What works and what doesn't. What is sustainable and what is not. Great recessions and city destroying earthquakes do that to people as reality smacks you across the face. I will bet the GI's also went through the same transition. brb.
Yes, they did. Many of them went on about it at length. The need for survival tends to focus the mind wonderfully.
Wow. I wish I could have heard what they said. The remaining GIs at my work place are beyond talking about their past due to dementia or other age related conditions. Except for one and even she drifts off occasionally. Quite sad to see.
One thing I can tell you is that they did not respect those who simply gave up. They were willing to help if you payed attention to what they were saying. Got a bit of a different perspective about the Great Depression than the Lost had but then they were getting started at about that time. In many ways they were more sympathetic about what Generation X was facing in their twenties than the Boomers were.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises