Thanks again J.M. for sharing your father's life. The chapters are always too short. I think about my own father. He would have been 18 and living the American version of that hell on this side of the pond in '37. He spoke little about it. I know it shaped him into a lifetime frugal Democrat. "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without." I remember him saying. Thanks to his and my mother's experience of life in those times (She was abandoned by alcoholic parents and lived many years in an orphanage.) I lived a good young life. My parents didn't want me to live like they were forced to. Oh I wasn't born with a silver spoon up my ass, but I had good shoes, clean clothes, a hair cut and I was never hungry. Never missed a day in school, unless it snowed, and graduated college, back when an average kid could afford to do so. With a bit of help from mom and dad. That's all going to hell now. Every institution and enterprise is price gouging the shit out of us here. Inflation is rising because companies are combining and those that aren't are sharing pricing information to raise costs. Especially in the oil and gas fracking industry, the grocery sector and housing. All have lost lawsuits and still have lawsuits pending. We can sue their pants off but they won't stop!
I could go on and on. I can't wait until May. I've got to read that book. Hurry up 😄
Sounds very like where Britain is headed again. I think the Tory politicians would see it as a blueprint for the near future
Thanks again J.M. for sharing your father's life. The chapters are always too short. I think about my own father. He would have been 18 and living the American version of that hell on this side of the pond in '37. He spoke little about it. I know it shaped him into a lifetime frugal Democrat. "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without." I remember him saying. Thanks to his and my mother's experience of life in those times (She was abandoned by alcoholic parents and lived many years in an orphanage.) I lived a good young life. My parents didn't want me to live like they were forced to. Oh I wasn't born with a silver spoon up my ass, but I had good shoes, clean clothes, a hair cut and I was never hungry. Never missed a day in school, unless it snowed, and graduated college, back when an average kid could afford to do so. With a bit of help from mom and dad. That's all going to hell now. Every institution and enterprise is price gouging the shit out of us here. Inflation is rising because companies are combining and those that aren't are sharing pricing information to raise costs. Especially in the oil and gas fracking industry, the grocery sector and housing. All have lost lawsuits and still have lawsuits pending. We can sue their pants off but they won't stop!
I could go on and on. I can't wait until May. I've got to read that book. Hurry up 😄