06-03-2012, 07:23 PM
Hell, I remember when kids were expected to succeed in school and if they didn't they were flunked. They were given a chance to catch up in summer school but many weren't able to.
I remember when "love affairs" between people where one was less than 18 weren't considered a crime punishable by ruining the life of the older person. Back in those by-gone days congress critters weren't doing anything that moved while the president stuck cigars in interns and lied about it.
I remember where virtually everyone graduated high school and even the few who didn't could read and write. I remember when illiteracy was rare and I didn't have to punch 2 for English. I remember when the hardest thing about directions was that they were translated from Japanese. I remember when the grocery store sold actual food with the actual price stamped right on it and that's what you actually paid. That was back in the days that most people weren't yet sporting an earl butts. I remember back when rich people had to pay onerous taxes and didn't set their own wages. There was a time when a CEO who destroyed a company was run out of town on a rail rather than given a golden parachute and a promotion. I can even remember when most stocks were owned by individiuals who cared whether the company ever paid a dividend or not. Now they just give anmy profit to the CEO and the institutions that own the stock bid the price higher since the company must have the best leader in the business and a fine parachute.
I remember a world much different than today. A world where screwing widows and orphans to make extra money wasn't considered good. It was a world where people might not lead the finest lives but were expected to maintain a little decorum and not get caught. If you got caught like MF Global you went to jail instead of getting a promotion.
It seems like a million years ago. Sputnik made us want to excel rather than sit and let someone else do it.
Maybe it really was a million years ago. In my defense I was young when I started paying attention to the world like the Suez Canal problem and it was in Egypt.
I remember when "love affairs" between people where one was less than 18 weren't considered a crime punishable by ruining the life of the older person. Back in those by-gone days congress critters weren't doing anything that moved while the president stuck cigars in interns and lied about it.
I remember where virtually everyone graduated high school and even the few who didn't could read and write. I remember when illiteracy was rare and I didn't have to punch 2 for English. I remember when the hardest thing about directions was that they were translated from Japanese. I remember when the grocery store sold actual food with the actual price stamped right on it and that's what you actually paid. That was back in the days that most people weren't yet sporting an earl butts. I remember back when rich people had to pay onerous taxes and didn't set their own wages. There was a time when a CEO who destroyed a company was run out of town on a rail rather than given a golden parachute and a promotion. I can even remember when most stocks were owned by individiuals who cared whether the company ever paid a dividend or not. Now they just give anmy profit to the CEO and the institutions that own the stock bid the price higher since the company must have the best leader in the business and a fine parachute.
I remember a world much different than today. A world where screwing widows and orphans to make extra money wasn't considered good. It was a world where people might not lead the finest lives but were expected to maintain a little decorum and not get caught. If you got caught like MF Global you went to jail instead of getting a promotion.
It seems like a million years ago. Sputnik made us want to excel rather than sit and let someone else do it.
Maybe it really was a million years ago. In my defense I was young when I started paying attention to the world like the Suez Canal problem and it was in Egypt.
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