We accutually had it better in many very important ways, the food was safe and better, the air was better, the education was better, there were fish in the seas, we had no chance of nuclear biological or chemical warfare, we had far more liesure time, there was signifigantly less diease, less war, less poverty, less homelessness, we have definately had it better even in my lifetime, my time was worth more thirty years ago than it is right now today so what you said is incorrect in many ways, sure there has been improvement but standard of living is not one of them. In my fathers time only one parent had to work, imagine that.
If you watch what is going on with the American economy in particular you'll see that things are not going well at all. The predictions of western culture undergoing abrupt and signifigant change in the coming years are not at all empty alarmist nonesense, it's real and you can try to take it to the bank but there is a very good chance it'll be bankrupt when you get there. Read the Mogambo Guru Kreskin at least you'll get a laugh while you're discovering just how bad things are going to get, the recession has already begun. What in hell makes you think I stay up all night inventing scary stories?:smile: