Bob: You just sent me over memory lane. Growning at home, my mom's refrigerator was a Kelvinator that lasted for 45 years. After our parents died, we gave it away for the metal (still working, but consumed too much energy). Now, we buy a Korean refrigerator every three years (they die after 3 years). In the town, there was a butcher, and we went to buy fresh meat every day; the milk man delivered the milk in a bottle to our door step; the eggs came from Mr. Goshi, who had a farm close by with lots of chickens; the vegetable were grown on our on backyard. Then, they built the freeways, and transportation came in. No longer small farmers, only big corporation farmers, milk are produced in factories (who knows how), etc. etc. Most of the manufacturing jobs (light manufacturing --18%-- are gone to East Asia) are gone and not coming back. The good paying jobs for those who chose a trade are gone, that is why everyone wants college now, and computer programing, etc. The only jobs that pay some good many are nurses, and there are not enough, so we get an influx from Phillipines. My kids graduated around 2008 and have not been able to find a good paying job, even after years of college. Something is happening in the world that need to be fixed. In the meantime, I keep supporting the manufacturing (in England, not Asia) of black boxes with one lens board in one end, and a ground glass at the other end.
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Originally Posted by pepeguitarra
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