PUNK RECESSION TALK

I sure don't have all the answers, but I've been around the block a few times.

If you think punk times in the '70s were way cool, you either weren't there or you were some pampered person. I remember all the '70s as being a very dark and negative time. I left the Rust Belt in the USA for NYC, which was worse in many ways (but an educational life challenge). My first visit to England in 1980 was pretty shocking. It was a very bleak time, and a lot of people were already quite off the rails.

If you think America used to be the land of plenty, I don't know where you are coming from. I've always known America to have harsh periods of civil unrest, a people in bad health who had a hard time paying for treatments and who could be fired for being sick (I was, also for taking a honeymoon and a vacation), no rights for workers or scant ones, and I lived for a time under martial law there, which was really traumatic (don't even try to put me in a room with anyone with the National Guard). Americans have such short memories, or don't pay attention. Many of them, anyway. Sorry if any of this insults any of you.

If you are in an okay situation, think about likely harsh or lean times ahead, which could be just your getting older and your health failing, but you ought to plan. I love to be happy and spontaneous but tend to worry about tomorrow in the form of trying to plan for it best I can. I don't want to be a burden on anybody because I know there is no one to rely upon! The last people you want to depend on are family. I continue to see people who complain they are not the right gender or skin color or whatever to make it, that they don't have the connections. This is likely to be true only to a point. If you don't have the brains or can think outside the box, you will not survive, nor do you probably deserve to. This might seem rude or superior to some of you, and I apologize like crazy if that is the case. Mais je parle vrai.

These things being said, I have made the most colossal errors in my life! Usually, I trusted people too much and was essentially lazy. Yes, lazy. I usually want to kick back and have an easy time of things. People who drive themselves into the ground with work, discipline and have bloated senses of obligation and distorted ideas about duty, I feel sorry for, but some basic planning and discliple are required. If you are not up to it, get a good servant.

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@RustArtRed And I really enjoy your pleasant comments!

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@RustArtRed I had contact with three different people in the American military who were on short pay in 2011 and I heard about a food stamp failure to deliver in Florida last year. The whole benefits thing is a teat people suck on and they give up on life, on initiative. I continue to have contact with people whose only income is food stamps. I don't know how they let themselves get into that situation. Many admit they should have planned better. Too late now!

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@RustArtRed Whoah, big change!

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@RustArtRed Why not? 

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@RustArtRed Thank you! I feel really sorry for people on Welfare.

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@slobomotion I am 36. 30 Years in New York City, now Rural Georgia.

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@slobomotion I look to you as a mentor, if you will accept this positive thought ?

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@slobomotion I have never been on Welfare. There always Is a way out, thru hard work, and deep thinking.

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@slobomotion Favorited this Video. I feel here in America, Welfare will run out by 2022. Just a guess. Happy, I am doing ok. Peace

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@riseingstardust Glad you saw this. I am quite all over the place with various issues raised here and this was extemporaneous. My farmer family had their land seized from them by the govt so it did them no good, most of them, and the other half ran a saloon, a family place which brewed beer and Prohibition got them. People are just astonished when I tell them there are no food stamps in Farnce!