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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 08:23 AM Original message |
Does anyone recall it ever having been this bad before? |
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BigDaddy44 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 08:26 AM Response to Original message |
1. Read up about World War I |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 08:45 AM Response to Reply #1 |
11. I think the Civil War was worse |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 10:12 AM Response to Reply #1 |
32. So would you say that Democrats are more dangerous than Republicans |
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ananda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 08:26 AM Response to Original message |
2. agree, it's critical |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
3. This is the worst I've seen personally (at 58). |
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Carni (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 09:19 AM Response to Reply #3 |
16. What galls me is the bush voters... |
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mikita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 08:28 AM Response to Original message |
4. Frankly, NO |
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appal_jack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 02:10 PM Response to Reply #4 |
37. I see that you are a neighbor... |
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0007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 08:29 AM Response to Original message |
5. I was hardly eating during the great depression. Yes, I remember! |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 08:33 AM Response to Original message |
6. I thought the gas line era of the Carter years were bad |
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asjr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 08:33 AM Response to Original message |
7. I can honestly say in my time |
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crikkett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 09:55 AM Response to Reply #7 |
24. . |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
8. The 1980's |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
9. Yes.... |
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zeemike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 08:42 AM Response to Original message |
10. you are right it is the worst ever |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 09:11 AM Response to Original message |
12. Mid-1970's saw huge inflation, mortgage rates up to 17% APR, gas rationing, and |
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OwnedByFerrets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 09:26 AM Response to Reply #12 |
21. But we still had our democracy and |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 10:03 AM Response to Reply #12 |
29. No gas rationing in the mid-70s, just gas shortages. |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 10:17 AM Response to Reply #29 |
33. It was a form of rationing: buying gas only on certain days based on your license number. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 10:20 AM Response to Reply #33 |
34. I agree ..... it was de facto rationing |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 09:13 AM Response to Original message |
13. Depression must have been bad. |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 09:15 AM Response to Original message |
14. I think we feel it is the worst because we are in it |
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Sheets of Easter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 10:10 AM Response to Reply #14 |
31. You nailed it. |
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Triana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 09:16 AM Response to Original message |
15. Nope. And my Mom who lived through the depression says she's never seen it.. |
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Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
17. I know it's a typo, but I just love funny ones: |
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gatorboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
18. I heard that Black Plague stuff sucked. |
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crikkett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 09:56 AM Response to Reply #18 |
26. LOL |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 09:21 AM Response to Original message |
19. Bad but different |
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OwnedByFerrets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 09:25 AM Response to Original message |
20. Not in my lifetime..... |
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Gidney N Cloyd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 09:42 AM Response to Original message |
22. Plenty of harsh times in human history but these days there's so many different >>>>> |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
23. Yes and No. |
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Roxy66 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
25. During the Reagan years I recall it being pretty dismal. |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
27. The Arab Oil Embargo 1973-1974 (I was 9 years old) |
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Career Prole (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
28. Nope...and as much as I love my kids and grandkids |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
30. On a personal level |
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Brigid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
35. No, I can't. |
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catnhatnh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
36. Nope-and that's because of the wide spectrum of problems.... |
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