Freeper email from my mother [View All]

[EstimatedProphet]

who is no freeper by the way...I don't think she got the context of what it really said. Anyway, it's an old one. I'm sure everybody's seen it. I've got my reply at the bottom.

Those Born 1930-1979! This is hilarious and sooo true! My - how times have changed!


TO ALL THE KIDS
WHO SURVIVED the
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!


First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.


Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.


We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we
rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.


We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.


We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and


NO ONE actually died from this.


We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank koolade made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because .


WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING !


We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.


No one was able to reach us all day.


And we were O.K.



We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down
the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.


We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms.......
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!


We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents.


We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.


We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,

made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang
the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!


Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!


The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.


They actually sided with the law!


These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!


The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.


We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned


HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL!


If YOU are one of them . . . CONGRATULATIONS!


You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as
kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives


for our own good


And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.


Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:

"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks,"Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"

My reply:

Hmmm...

Has the government made it illegal to drink from a garden hose? Does every cut and scrape result in a lawsuit?

I'd really have to ask the person who put this together which country they live in. It's true in my opinion that parents today are too overprotective - I was outside every day it snowed! - but that's the result of a scaremongering media and paranoid parents, not the government.

Government regulations gave us the 40 hour work week. Ask the author how they'd like going back to the days of the rail barons, and work 7 days a week for 16 hours a day.

Government regulations gave us the minimum wage. Ask the author how they'd like working those hours for 5 cents an hour.

Government regulations gave us the Clean Water Act. Wouldn't drinking truly toxic polluted cancer-causing water be fun?

Government regulations gave us the Civil Rights Act. I can guess what the author of this crap thinks of that.

Government regulations got rid of lead-based paints. The author thinks that's a bad thing. I think the author reasons as if he ate some of those paints.

The government has done a lot of things that are undeniably good. All the things above, plus they have made it possible for me and people like me to get an advanced college education, they've made it possible for many citizens to own a house, they've worked to improve the health of citizens and people around the world. The government represents us. The government IS us. Wonder why tghe author hates it so much, even after it's clearly done well by them?