Dirt Racer
DP Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 25, 2012
- Messages
- 1,747
- Reaction score
- 938
- Location
- Illinois
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Conservative
When I was a kid in the 50s everyone except movie stars and Randolph Hearst lived in modest homes, drove modest cars and took modest vacations. Mom and dad loaded all 4 of us kids in the station wagon with the 16 ft Terry behind us and we went camping. Now you see people in 200K motor homes "camping". Houses are now huge and having a maid to clean it and a gardener to mow the lawn is common. Kids wear $200.00 tennis shoes, I wore PF Fliers. I could go on and on and give example after example but I think you get the point. IMO opinion Americans have become greedy, spoiled,voracious, rapacious consumers and I get sick of hearing people whine about not having enough. We have developed an entitlement mentality, "I am an American and I deserve to have everything I want". Makes me sick.
I gotta say I do see a lot of spoiled people who believe because someone else has something they are owed it too. I am going in the opposite direction. I want away from all this technology rat race. We are 3 months from being completely debt free. I plan to stay that way. House is getting sold to buy a place in the woods.