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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (114816)	10/12/2011 9:27:12 AM
From: HPilot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

We have cars with these things now which is one way current cars are better. No way, especially if you consider that new cars are so boring. I hardly use the new gadgets except cruise control, which actually you could get in Caddies back then. You are not proving anything showing the reduced prices of electronics, this will always be true and doesn't prove a thing. We do not need these electronics and argueably our lives might be better without them. Not as many go to live concerts for example, is that a good thing? We used to go out to bars to meet each other rather than online dating services. Perhaps the booze was a bad thing, but we had to have better social skills to pick up broads. Your food expenditure as a share of disposable income seems inexplicable to me. How can food expenditure be part of disposable income? Is this just the snacks that make us fat? Your appliance chart also doesn't prove any thing. Many of these things were simply not available in the past, or were not as reliable. My parents hardly used the washer and dryer because she had service from the local laundry. It was used mostly when we wanted to wear a particular item that was dirty or when she had a large amount of dirty clothes. She only used the diswasher when we had guests and a large amount of dish's, because it didn't clean them as well, and broke down a lot. We spent more money on trips, sporting events, concerts, dining out, movies, etc. But perhaps you are right in a way, maybe its not the economy but our expensive phone and cable bills, they are about ten times higher then they were back then, in fact there was no cable bill at all.