We live in a unique period of time, with our very own set of new problems, right? Well, maybe not so much..... As this sampling of headlines from past issues of The New York Times would seem to indicate.

HEALTH CARE BILL HELD UP OVER FEAR OF LOSS OF JOBS - April 7, 1971

DEMOCRATS DIVIDED ON HEALTH CARE BILL - August 11, 1964

INQUIRY INTO HIGH SALARIES PRESSED BY THE GOVERNMENT - October 29, 1933

THE SIEGE OF KANDAHAR - August 19, 1880

HOW BIG A NATIONAL DEBT CAN WE STAND? - January 27, 1952

GEESE CRASH INTO AIRLINER - January 4, 1961

'TEA PARTY' MEETING FIGHTS NEW TAXES - July 30, 1935


Source - Newsweek, March 1, 2010

good listing Gus. I had someone ask me a while ago if I thought these recent events in the US were a sign of the end times and I laughed. I'm only in my 30s but even I know there has been far worse events in US history in the last 100 years than this; not to mention in the millenia of world history. Good grief, has everyone forgotten the centuries of European history that were termed "The Dark Ages"? I know things can seem bad because we are experiencing them first hand, but they really are a dripping faucet compared to what's written in history. And there will always be a common set of problems that each generation experiences.

I think we should be thankful at least we're in a time where there is a general sense of equality and freedom. I can't imagine living even before the civil rights movement. There is a guy that lives down the street from me who is in his 80s that told me about how he used to have to sit in the back of the city bus. That stuff blows my mind because it feels like he's describing another planet and yet it was the same country I live in less than 50 years ago.