Mayan 2012

Well, the Mayan calender has run out or at least is in the last few days and though in the toilet, the USA has not been flushed yet. I still hold out hope that the Christian, compassionate, rugged, individualist, pioneer spirit that cranked up this nation would somehow come out of hiding and take over. We were a strong, self-sufficient country before (and if you do not like it, sorry) before the immigrants were allowed to set the tone of dependency on big government and other countries for our well-being. When I was a little fellow, some 60 years ago, we did not lock our doors, autos did not have locks, there was no TV or internet, and we sat around a table to eat as a family. Our entertainment was radio and only after all the chores were done. Hmmm?
I was raised for some of my early years on a farm. We worked "can to can't" and as a family. If a neighbor had trouble, neighbors helped. I remember going to help raise a barn where one had burned down. The only purchases made were with real money and only when we had some. Few borrowed personal loans. Loans were for businesses. There was no plastic buy now and hope I can pay latter.
Like the Lone Ranger theme used to say, "The thrilling days of yesteryear." We were not financially wealthy. In fact, by today's standard, we were poor. But, I do not remember feeling poor or needing anything. Of course, when I had time, I made most of what I played with. We did not sit around playing video games or surfing the net for God knows what, getting lazier and fatter.
It is time this nation went to the elderly who remember how it was done when it was better and return to something that worked then and would again.