That may have been the case when family values were more than a slogan to get elected and our government didn't have the big dick of corporations stuffed down it's throat. I remember watching TV shows from the 50's that featured the happy family. Dad smoked a pipe, worked 9-5 and was home in time for an early dinner. Mom didn't have to work and was able to stay home, raise the kids and cook Dad that early dinner. And the kids would play outside, not having to worry about getting shot or kidnapped. Gee that seemed like such a swell time to live.
Or how about during the early 70's? Sexual freedom and plenty of damn good drugs. The average CEO only made 40% more than the workers below him (not 400-500% more, remember that so-called trickle down theory I was bitching about before). Heck, even Nixon seemed like the Beav compared to Bush. Wire tapping the DNC, seems like child's play, after the lies and war profiteering we've witnessed with Iraq.
Now we've got bullshit manufactured wars: The War on Drugs, The War on Terror. No one will ever win either war. Man has been using drugs and committing acts of terror ever since man figured out how to pick up a stick and bash it over his brothers head. Cheery, I know.
I guess I'm just a little bitter than almost my entire paycheck went towards the mortgage of a house that is now worth 37% less than what we paid for it. I tried doing the right thing, I got married and bought a house. Only I should not have bought my first house in 2005. I feel for my fellow Americans who are not as well off as I am. I'm blessed to have a great family, good friends and a job that I like.
And a news report has just come in that there was a murder-suicide in my small little town. My thoughts go out to the family and I will shut up and enjoy my time.
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