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Originally Posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts View Post
... 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
Exactly! You guys have just gotten soft. The times that Wayne cites above were much tougher for most Americans.
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