(11-16-2021, 07:02 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(11-16-2021, 05:41 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: Can you back up the part in bold?  Because I know that my wife and I preferred for her to be home with our children.  Also, we never used daycare, at the very most we hired a babysitter on occasion.  Our children were our responsibility, not anyone else's.

I think that the "lifestyle" that far too many people want and pursue is high speed internet, the latest and greatest smart phones for everyone in the home and late model automobiles.  Rather than sweep the floor or monitor the washing machine they want a "robot" to do it for them and a "smart app" to tell them that the washing machine is done with their clothes.

As far as gas prices or fuel prices in general, it impacts a lot of people particularly those in rural communities and in mid-america.  For us personally we have to make a 15 mile trip just to get to a grocery store and a much longer trip to get to other stores.  We require diesel fuel to run the tractors that we use on our farm.  That impacts the little bit of income we make from our small operation.  Expand that to farmers in Iowa, Kansas, etc. who travel miles just to get from one field to another.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/267737/reco...aking.aspx

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