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JDPriestly

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10. So long ago. We worked young back then.

Tue Jan 3, 2012, 05:45 PM

Jan 2012

Gingrich waxes nostalgic about all the child labor of earlier eras. Fact is, the workplace has changed a lot since that time. I would not want a kid to work in today's workplace at the age that I started. We worked in family businesses or for friends. It was a great place to gain confidence and learn to finish the job and get there on time. Ah, being young, what more could we have wanted than just to be young?

Back then, we trusted the promise behind Social Security the same way as we trusted our family doctor or pharmacist or our dad's friends how paid us to babysit their kids or mow their lawns. And now, today? Big business treats Social Security like a joke and not the solemn promise that it was made to kids not out of high school.

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Do you still have your first Social Security card and the brochure that came with it? [View all] JDPriestly Dec 2011 OP

Yes I have it. Graybeard Dec 2011 #1

Mine is dated just a couple of years after yours. JDPriestly Dec 2011 #7

Yikes - I don't think I even have my current card let alone my first one! Peregrine Took Dec 2011 #2

Yes, from about 1962, first job. bemildred Dec 2011 #3

Still have original card........ Scottybeamer70 Dec 2011 #4

Oh good grief, that would have been in 1944.. Zoigal Dec 2011 #5

Actually, my mom held onto it for me. It was stuck in a box along with other mementos JDPriestly Dec 2011 #6

Yep... Bob Wallace Dec 2011 #8

So long ago. We worked young back then. JDPriestly Jan 2012 #10

Yes, I still have my original card housewolf Jan 2012 #9