The "safety net" is really a hammock, "folks"

What is wrong with this country?

When I was growing up we were proud that we lived in an industrialized nation. We made things we wanted and that others wanted. We recognized that the labor was labor and that we depended on one another for our various needs. Our dads,and yes moms, for women stayed in the work force after WWII no matter what bs you read, worked eight hour days and sought overtime. They picked up other jobs when they were saving and they were proud of it. Plenty of smart Americans were "shoprats". People actually went to college and then went to work at the factories because the money was good and the hours let them use their education for their own self interests. Growing up I knew plenty of people who were well read, artistic and cultured who also worked at the Goodyear plant. They were not ashamed of this nor were they ashamed that they worked for a multinational corporation.

We used to be proud of this, Zuccotti brats! We should go back to being thrilled by our manufacturing and our industry. The alternative is bleak. Subsistence farming without all the goodies made by the corporations leads to a short cruel life. And if you get rid of the evil big industries, including big food, what you have left is really a life that these same brats would find unacceptable.

I do understand the people who would like to see things made here...and classics majors are just the people to make these things. What things? Textiles, glassware, dishes (Bring back PFALTZGRAFF!..the American made one, not the imposter)electronics, etc. And this time let's not forget how great it is to be a manufacturing society.

And my title was largely to be provocative, but I do think that our safety net encourages sloth