COMMON SENSE
COMMON SENSE is no longer "common"...if we are going to be "PC" (politically correct) today I am changing it to "Uncommon Sense"!
"Google" George Carlin and his "Paradox of Our Time" for a favorite comedic writing of mine filled with truth. (While I am too lazy to copy it for you here...get to it...it is "Homework" from Birge) It is "G" rated and for him that was rare.
AMERICA PRE-INDUSTRIAL
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2. 14% OF HOMES HAD A BATHTUB.
3. 8% HAD A TELEPHONE!
4. 8,000 CARS & 144 MILES OF PAVED ROADS!
5. 95% OF ALL BIRTHS TOOK PLACE AT HOME.
6. 90% OF ALL DOCTORS HAD NO COLLEGE EDUCATION.
7. AVERAGE PAYCHECK WAS 22 CENTS PER HOUR!
8. WOMEN WASHED THEIR HAIR ONCE A MONTH WITH BORAX & EGG YOLK.
9. CANADA PASSED A LAW TO STOP "POOR PEOPLE" COMING IN!!
10. 6% OF AMERICANS GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL.
11. CANNED BEER AND ICED TEA WERE NOT INVENTED YET.
12. FIVE TOP WAYS AMERICANS DIED IN AMERICA:
(1) Flu & Pneumonia (2) TB (3) Diarrhea! (4)Heart Disease & (5)Stroke
13. 230 MURDERS in the entire U.S.A.
14. PRINTED word only some 250 years ago
15. Periodically entire groups of Lemmings would jump off a cliff!
AMERICA 2015 Life expectancy: 80
We have always had evil hating good. The Huge difference is that today the weapons are more lethal, abundant and we are the only "species" on this planet with the capacity to eliminate ALL species from the world!
"Google" George Carlin and his "Paradox of Our Time" for a favorite comedic writing of mine filled with truth. (While I am too lazy to copy it for you here...get to it...it is "Homework" from Birge) It is "G" rated and for him that was rare.
AMERICA PRE-INDUSTRIAL
1. 9 out of 10 people were Farmers
2. Took 12 hours to go 100 miles!(had to change horses every 10-15 miles
3. Only a few Americans could read OR write.
AMERICA INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (1730-1800)
1. Hunger, disease, filth, ignorance, overcrowding & Violence every day.
2. Americans usually lived, worked and died where they were born.
3. FEVER & SMALLPOX wiped out whole families.
4. Garbage & "waste" dumped in the streets in a center ditch and into the drinking water.
5. 3-8 people to a BED (all ages)...washed sheets and bedding once or twice a YEAR.
6. NO "child Labor Laws"..young as 4 years old worked...died or lost limbs to unsafe machinery.
AMERICA 1909
Life expectancy is 4777
2. 14% OF HOMES HAD A BATHTUB.
3. 8% HAD A TELEPHONE!
4. 8,000 CARS & 144 MILES OF PAVED ROADS!
5. 95% OF ALL BIRTHS TOOK PLACE AT HOME.
6. 90% OF ALL DOCTORS HAD NO COLLEGE EDUCATION.
7. AVERAGE PAYCHECK WAS 22 CENTS PER HOUR!
8. WOMEN WASHED THEIR HAIR ONCE A MONTH WITH BORAX & EGG YOLK.
9. CANADA PASSED A LAW TO STOP "POOR PEOPLE" COMING IN!!
10. 6% OF AMERICANS GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL.
11. CANNED BEER AND ICED TEA WERE NOT INVENTED YET.
12. FIVE TOP WAYS AMERICANS DIED IN AMERICA:
(1) Flu & Pneumonia (2) TB (3) Diarrhea! (4)Heart Disease & (5)Stroke
13. 230 MURDERS in the entire U.S.A.
14. PRINTED word only some 250 years ago
15. Periodically entire groups of Lemmings would jump off a cliff!
AMERICA 2015 Life expectancy: 80
We have always had evil hating good. The Huge difference is that today the weapons are more lethal, abundant and we are the only "species" on this planet with the capacity to eliminate ALL species from the world!
Lemmings may ALL jump off a cliff at the same time...but they do not take US with them.
"IF YOU DO NOT STAND FOR SOMETHING...YOU WILL FALL FOR "ANYTHING."
MRS.B.
