Post by ck4829 on Jan 6, 2017 12:30:29 GMT
Good grief, I get so tired of reading letters from those who want to go back to the "good old days" when each family was responsible for their elderly relatives, which if you were rich was fine, but not if you were living from paycheck to paycheck, or having no paycheck as many did in the 1920s and '30s.
Do they also wish to go back to long lines at soup kitchens and folks trying to sell apples on the street corner? Suicide rates were very high, families disintegrated as looking for any kind of work sent them to unknown places.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt instituted the Civilian Conservation Corps just to employ men and boys, he not only provided work but as a byproduct, many of our national parks and dams and electrical grids were built all over the country. When he instituted Social Security, many folks who managed to live until they were 65 had a little money between themselves and starvation.
Yes, I know it has become in some instances, a Christmas tree to hang goods and services on. I am not opposed to most of these. As a couple in our 80s, we are thankful for some of these services. We are also blessed with having worked for the state and having pensions, which allow us to buy medications without choosing food or medicine.
Now the Republicans and Trump want to undo all that and go back to the "good old days" when the rich got richer, the poor poorer, and there was no middle class.
www.goskagit.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter-the-not-so-good-old-days/article_8b9cac38-03dd-597a-9646-d0157a603d0a.html
Do they also wish to go back to long lines at soup kitchens and folks trying to sell apples on the street corner? Suicide rates were very high, families disintegrated as looking for any kind of work sent them to unknown places.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt instituted the Civilian Conservation Corps just to employ men and boys, he not only provided work but as a byproduct, many of our national parks and dams and electrical grids were built all over the country. When he instituted Social Security, many folks who managed to live until they were 65 had a little money between themselves and starvation.
Yes, I know it has become in some instances, a Christmas tree to hang goods and services on. I am not opposed to most of these. As a couple in our 80s, we are thankful for some of these services. We are also blessed with having worked for the state and having pensions, which allow us to buy medications without choosing food or medicine.
Now the Republicans and Trump want to undo all that and go back to the "good old days" when the rich got richer, the poor poorer, and there was no middle class.
www.goskagit.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter-the-not-so-good-old-days/article_8b9cac38-03dd-597a-9646-d0157a603d0a.html