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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (4097)	6/1/2001 1:37:06 AM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 74559

<A greater percentage of the population experienced poverty, hunger, and disease. > Poverty... you mean spiritual or material? Hunger... what population.. U.S.? Dis Ease... really? More people are experiencing dis ease? <What was ahead for a person our age in 1913? The Great Depression sandwiched between two major world wars. People born in this country after 1950 are easily the most fortunate, prosperous, and healthy individuals to ever walk this planet.> Well, sure... but what's the point... how do you know that's not just a random event??? Or perhaps overconsumption and abuse of the planet to be paid for by future generations... I assume you mean this in a purely materialistic sense? DAK

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (4097)	6/1/2001 2:26:57 AM
From: Rolla Coasta	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

People born in this country after 1950 are easily the most fortunate, prosperous, and healthy individuals to ever walk this planet. That depends on what kinda classes people are in. Those who fought in wars during 50s and 60s weren't so lucky. Those who were considered as elites who had some sorta built-in capabilities to control some other people were considered to be the luckiest. Also, I remember one has said that every new-born in everyday is being welcomed by saying "Happy Birthday", while those who are born in a doomsday will be welcomed by saying "Happy Doomsday". Just a joke.

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (4097)	6/1/2001 10:04:57 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

You're right, but you're probably wasting your breath. They never learned about 5 1/2-day 10-hour workweeks. They never learned about child labor. They never learned about silicosis for mine workers, byssinosis for textile workers, tuberculosis for city dwellers, on the job injuries and deaths for farm workers and industrial workers, hard work, low pay, early death. They don't know what the literacy rate was in 1913. They don't know how few men actually lived to age 65 when Social Security was enacted. If they wanted to know, they'd probably already know by now. Anyway, what difference does it make? The important thing is what we face going forward.