You know, our parents saved for a few months to get the $100.00 or so to buy a huge wodden console television for the living room. We sat around the TV at night and watched Roy Rodgers
and cigeratte commercials all for just the cost of the electricity.
somehow, someone who is really smart convinced us to PAY for what comes across the airwaves to us and we still have commercials we still sit in front of the TV and yet we pay for the TV AND the monthly cable bill. The cell phone bill. The internet access.The portable wifi, the downloaded app on the phone, Insurance for job loss equity in your home loss, life and health and everything inbetween. We don't save up and buy cars we make payments on cars that are built to last right up until that last payment. But not much further. We pay for homes that are falling apart and declining in value simultaneously.
Basically our parents paid bills on things that ended. Television to cars to homes that appreciated. The greatest generation had it all. As Hugh Hefner stated that generation won the big one. made a fortune. had the pill but didn't have aids. Our generation has debt for things are parents could not imagine at our age. cell phones, cable, insurance everything cost more and never ends. Our one main asset, our homes is now a diminishing liability instead of an asset. Wow what a difference a few decades makes HUH!
Well I did read the paper on my tablet this morning in the park for free so that was good for the environment and saved me from paying for a paper. Did it ever occur to the newspaper people that with each and every page of faces on the obituary section they have lost that many readers that day. With each page of the birth section are kids who will never purchase a hard copy newspaper or magazine in their lives?
Well it is not too bad
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