Carlisle Cash !@#$%^

[anlauto]

..........and then you die...........

[dodj]

I for one love the USA, and i love today's economy as well.   Yep..thats what I said.   Oh for the record i hate Trump and his embarrassing mouth and shoot from the hip attitude.

So, when people say the 60's, 70, 80's, 90 etc were great and its all terrible now, i say bullshit.   The system works !!   Work hard, don't live extravagantly and you can live a good hopefully long life.     

again

I don't think there has ever been a better time to be alive than now. The 'good old days'?...You can have'em. I can understand being nostalgic for certain things, but overall, everything is better today imo.   

Except for Trudeau and Trump.......that's not better...lol   (meant as humour...if too politically sensitive, mods please remove)

[MEK-Dangerous]

I don't think there has ever been a better time to be alive than now. The 'good old days'?...You can have'em. I can understand being nostalgic for certain things, but overall, everything is better today imo.   

Well put. I love reminiscing about the old days. I do miss the nostalgia.

Do I want shag carpetting? Do I want to adjust the points, or carry an extra ballast resistor with me for my Mopar? Not really.   

[Skid Row]

I think "Orwell" missed it by exactly 40 years.

[Bullitt-]

I don't know that I would want to live the 70's-80's as a 60+ year old
but I certainly wouldn't want to live my teen's-twenty's these days

   

[70 Challenger Lover]

When I was a kid 40 years ago, I heard all my elders talk about the good old days. They apologized to me that I'd have to grow up in a hell hole, that we'd be out of oil before I could drive, doom and gloom and so on. Well I'm 50 now and looking back, things have been pretty great. I still have lots to gripe about (mostly about my state of California) and I find myself worrying about the same stuff they did even though I know it's overblown.

As a point of comparison, I have worked in law enforcement for 29 years now and watched all sorts of changes for the worse. Never has the profession been so hated. And I ask myself why anyone would want the job. Yet every time we hire, we have 200 people applying for every opening. That has not changed in 29 years.

So here is what I tell myself when I dwell on gloomy stuff:

1) No matter how bad something seems, it really isn't that bad.
2) No president is going to destroy the country. CNN and late night TV wants you to believe that but it isn't true.
3) The economy is rocking and a big recession is not on the way. Sure a trade war doesn't help but it won't wreak the economy either.
4) The housing market is not going to crash like before. We may see a slowdown or even a mild dip but those things are healthy fluctuations, not something to dread.
5) California is not going to go bankrupt. The state has weathered seriously bad stuff before and will do so again because it's a massive economy. Giant companies still want to be here. I don't understand why but they do.
6) Our kids and grandkids are going to grow up happy and content with the American dream. Those of us who are older and lived through different times think everything is in decline but it's really just change. Younger people don't have the same point of reference so they will pay their taxes and live life as best they can.

The beautiful thing about being American is the freedom to change things in my life. I do not like what California has turned into but I alone cannot change that. I am not going to beat my head against the wall trying. Instead, I am going to sell my average house for a mountain of money to some family who thinks California is the place to be. I'm going to take my pile of money to another state and live out the rest of my life, hopefully with lots of land and space in between me and my neighbors. Almost every Californian I know tells me there is no better place in the country than California. God bless them. I need people like that to prop up the California economy so I can take my equity and my California based pension out of state. I am not about to tell them that there is beauty outside of California or that your dollar goes 50% farther.

[js27]

I REALLY want out of this socialist hole. SC is where I'd like to go.

I moved to SC from PA 17 years ago and love it here. After 45 years of shoveling snow I was done with it. Summers are hot and humid but the other 9 months are great. I guess that is why we have 48 people a DAY moving to the Charleston Area.
JS27

[Brads70]

I REALLY want out of this socialist hole. SC is where I'd like to go.

I moved to SC from PA 17 years ago and love it here. After 45 years of shoveling snow I was done with it. Summers are hot and humid but the other 9 months are great. I guess that is why we have 48 people a DAY moving to the Charleston Area.
JS27

I was in Summerville  last week. Nice town ! My wife enjoyed the downtown shops..... yes it sure was hot and humid but I'd take that over what I have to deal with anyday! I'd prefer more inland though....  We did drive thru Laurens and looked at a house I liked on Zillow.

[HP_Cuda]

This thread kinda reminds me of the Billy Joel song "We didn't start the fire"