Jerrylynnb
8th April 2017, 03:08 PM
Well, Dogman, we are probably of similar age (75) and probably have similar memories of our youth.
Things have changed so much that sometimes I just daydream about how it used to be.
One incident from my youth still sticks in my head.
I had just turned 14 in 1956, I went into a local super market (Minimax) run by a neighbor of ours, and got a job as a sackboy (I LOVED that job and right away was known as the best one there). They had several of the cash registers (the electro-mechanical ones from way back then) apart and another neighbor of mine, who was the local NCR representative, was making changes to them. I asked my boss what was going on, and he told me they were upgrading the cash registers to compute the new 2% sales tax that had just passed the Texas congress. "What's a sales tax?", I asked. He told me and I responded (in a typical Texas rebellious attitude), "HA! THAT won't last - We Texans will never go for that".
Well, here it is 60 years later and I have been proven so damn wrong that it hurts. But I can promise you that there was a time, even before my time, that Texans truly WOULDN'T go for any such gobblydegook as a sales tax, nor 90% of the rest of the overbearing govie interference we've had shoved down our throats since then. What we got now is, as you suggest, better than any place else on this earth, but, (and this is a BIG BUT) even at that, it ain't anywhere near how it used to be before the jews got so much power and have taken over. Stores used to close on Sunday - can you imagine that?
I try to get along with all the posters here, and, especially Patcolo because he got me to come here in the first place (when Spingola went berserk over at RBN with the phony Sandy Hook show).
One thing I can say for this forum - you get a wide variety of opinions and comments - this is the first place I come to when something happens and I want to know the bottom line of it.
Peace.
We're both too old to make new enemies, no?
Things have changed so much that sometimes I just daydream about how it used to be.
One incident from my youth still sticks in my head.
I had just turned 14 in 1956, I went into a local super market (Minimax) run by a neighbor of ours, and got a job as a sackboy (I LOVED that job and right away was known as the best one there). They had several of the cash registers (the electro-mechanical ones from way back then) apart and another neighbor of mine, who was the local NCR representative, was making changes to them. I asked my boss what was going on, and he told me they were upgrading the cash registers to compute the new 2% sales tax that had just passed the Texas congress. "What's a sales tax?", I asked. He told me and I responded (in a typical Texas rebellious attitude), "HA! THAT won't last - We Texans will never go for that".
Well, here it is 60 years later and I have been proven so damn wrong that it hurts. But I can promise you that there was a time, even before my time, that Texans truly WOULDN'T go for any such gobblydegook as a sales tax, nor 90% of the rest of the overbearing govie interference we've had shoved down our throats since then. What we got now is, as you suggest, better than any place else on this earth, but, (and this is a BIG BUT) even at that, it ain't anywhere near how it used to be before the jews got so much power and have taken over. Stores used to close on Sunday - can you imagine that?
I try to get along with all the posters here, and, especially Patcolo because he got me to come here in the first place (when Spingola went berserk over at RBN with the phony Sandy Hook show).
One thing I can say for this forum - you get a wide variety of opinions and comments - this is the first place I come to when something happens and I want to know the bottom line of it.
Peace.
We're both too old to make new enemies, no?