Just Thoughts and Nothing Else

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This has been around before and you may have seen it .. but it is worth a second look! Lots of memories here.  :) How's This For Nostalgia?  | | All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? | |  It took three minutes for the TV to warm up? | | | Nobody owned a purebred dog? | | | When a quarter was a decent allowance? | || You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?  | | | Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces? | | | You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot? | | | Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box? | | | It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents? | | | They | | threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and they did it! | | | When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady? | | | No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never | | locked? | | | Lying on your back in the grass with your friends? | and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '?  | | Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? | | | Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger? | | | And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today. | | | When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home? | | Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat. | | . .as well as summers filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with | | sugar. | Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'? | | | I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on. To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. | | Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody  | and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow knows, Nellie  Bell ,  Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.  | | | How Many Of These Do You Remember? | Candy cigarettes | | Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside. | | | Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles. | | Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes. | | Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum. | | Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers. | | | Newsreels before the movie. | | Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(  Yukon   2-601). Party lines. | | | Peashooters. |   | | | Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records. | | | 78 RPM records! | | | Green Stamps. | | | Mimeograph paper. | | The  Fort   Apache  Play Set.  | | Do You Remember a Time When… | | Decisions were made by going | 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'? | Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'? | 'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest? | | | Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening? | | | | It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best | | Friends'? | | | Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot? | | Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures? | | | 'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense? | | Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? |   | | | The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team? | | War was a card game? | | | Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? | | Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin? | | | Water balloons were the ultimate weapon? | | | If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived! |

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I've just learned something again about the economy and our government who is handling everything, and I don't mean Obama for you haters out there, I mean about Congress and the Senate.  I mean about what the politicians and what they think is appropriate to do or say to "The President of the United States" .
I don't believe the disrespect I see to that office or our President!

I knew that if in this election more Republicans got into office that there would be things happening as far as fighting the democrats, but what does that mean to US?  It means that now that you've done this and voted for this upset in the house and Senate, you will watch our government only vote on the things that will benefit them!  There will be a stalemate when it comes to running our government!  Will there be anything done for the ordinary people who keep losing their jobs, or their homes, absolutely not!  They'll be too busy fighting anything that comes through from our President and the Democrats!  Will the elderly get the care they need?
Will people on Disability get what they need?  Will Medicare be taken off the freeze so the elderly and disabled can now afford the higher insurance payments that they have been plagued with while members of the house and senate keep giving themselves raises?  ABSOLUTELY NOT!

Will my friends and family members get their jobs back?  Will we continue to see outsourcing within our companies to the extent that all the Americans who have been born and raised here lose thier jobs?
I have a friend and a few family members that have lost their jobs just recently and one of them was due to outsourcing within the company, and she was working in this company for 23 years!  The big corporations have managed to hire people from India to do the work that Americans have done for years and now after all this time and now that she is older (50's) she loses her job and has to start over again!  This company is Jewel/Osco that was bought out by Albertson's. 
Then other family members have lost their jobs because of lay offs and companies needing to downsize.  But they lay off people that are getting older and making them start over again as well.  Especially when they are in these companies some of them since their 30'S
They all have families!  What do we do anymore, do we continue to just go with the flow of things and let our government keep pushing us around?
People losing homes, people losing respect for our government (and truly understandable in a sense), people with children to take care of.   Then what will ever be done now that they have decided to fight everything that we need to push forward in our economy? 
I know that I am at a loss and I don't have the solution either, but maybe if I had a real say in things my suggestions would be to Fire them!  Every last one of them!  Start over and have common folk run our government because they truly know what the people need and want because they've had to live with what our government keeps doing to us and all the while they are doing these things, they keep giving themselves a safe and secure future while the American people keep getting the shaft!

This is my opinion and one thing I am sure of, I am still entitled to that!
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I don't know about you, but when I sit deep in thought, I think it would be kind of fun if someone could actually know what I'm thinking and share with me too.
I love people, I love to watch them, and I always love to share!
I also understand that thoughts are Private, and maybe we are better off not knowing, but it's also an interesting concept.

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