Why do people do what they do? I think that those who long, shouldn't, they may just get it.

I don't know how things went in the "olden days" not sure I even know when the "olden days' were.  It seems everyone I ever meant, all my life, talked about them but when my 93 year old great grandmother spoke about them they weren't the same time as when my mother speaks about them.  So the "olden days" must be a lot like the "they" that knows so much about everything.  All joking aside I think the "olden days" is surely a romantic remembrance of the days of someones past or what they perceive as a better time.  I can't count how many people I know who say 'I wish I was born a hundred years ago' or 'I should have been born in this era.'  Really?  Did they stop and think what they are saying or do they really even know anything about the time they long for.  For the most part the woman a hundred years made the most industrious person you know look lazy.  The people I hear, most often, saying this are generally not the most industrious people I know.  Yes, it was simpler back then and maybe longing for simplicity is a good thing, but if you want simplicity go out and get it but you aren't cut out for the shear hard work, isolation, hunger, and no safety net that was the reality of life a hundred years ago.  Oh, I know they have romanticized it but there were no food banks, no welfare, no food stamps and no supermarkets, so if you didn't grow it, store it, smoke it, and work your tail off, you didn't eat.  I can't imagine some people even putting their canner on the stove and turning it on so how could they have managed?  Did they forget they would have had to chop the wood, bring it in, keep the stove going, take care of the kids, hoe the garden, do the laundry in a wash tub with a scrub board, milk the cow, the goat, feed the chickens, slop the hog, and then get breakfast on the table before they started their day?  Do you really know many people in this day and age of cars, computers, coffee shops, mega stores and instant gratification that could live up to that want?  I don't?  I think God knows who to put in what time and he didn't make a mistake at your house anymore than he did at mine, we are too lazy and complacent to have lived a hundred years ago or in any of the "olden days or the good old days". 

I see so many people now that cheat others and go on about their day like nothing happened and think it is totally acceptable.  Why is it that people think it is perfectly acceptable to live together and both claim head of household on their taxes, isn't that tax fraud?  Why do the people think it is acceptable to live together and count only one income to get food stamps and medicaid, medicaid fraud? or both use the food bank as single parents, then have money for all the extras that make their world go round.  These people are committing theft at our expense,  most of us know someone doing it and we don't complain, we let them cheat us, don't we pay the taxes that fund the agencies they cheat?  Our age has made it so people can steal and go on about their way with out even thinking of it as stealing.  I read about a mother last week in Zootown that was arrested for leaving her 16 month old at home, when did it become acceptable behavior for a mother, or any parent, to leave their infant at home to go shopping, and don't tell me 'they were sleeping.'  What about the daycare worker last year in Texas that left boiling oil on the stove went to the store and returned to find the fire department removing 7 bodies from her home, she fled to another country.  Why would anyone do such a thing, isn't your infant, your toddler, your child the most important thing in your live if they aren't they should be.  People get real.  Where is our conscience? where is our sense of fairness and honesty? where is our sense of responsibility? These are but a tiny few of the things that we do in this day and age what they wouldn't have done in the "olden days".  Really, do we hang men from trees because he was the wrong color and talked to a girl of a different color?  Do we work our children 16 hours a day because they can crawl into a smaller mining hole that is in danger of crumbling?  Do we let men beat their wives and kids with a stick the size of his thumb, as long as he doesn't kill them, because he is their owner?  All ages have their problems, short falls and dangers, it is a romanticism that that other time was surely better than mine.  It is a bit like a mother and child birth, a mothers mind forgets or never considers the pain, when she looks at that new child and as we idealize that place in time the "olden days:.