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Originally Posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts
... if you look back in history, the same could be said for many different points where the future looked very bleak. Examples:
- 1980s when interest rates were 15-17% and the economy was tanking
- 1980s when we thought Japan would eventually buy the entire US
- 1960s during the cold war & Cuban missle crisis
- 1970s with Vietnam and the hippie movement clearly dividing the country
I think one of the reasons why people may be such misanthropes these days is because the nineties was so prosperous...
-Wayne
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Exactly! You guys have just gotten soft. The times that Wayne cites above were much tougher for most Americans.
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