09-17-2010, 02:06 PM
KathyH - Work ethic was probably the gist of my rant and I somehow went astray.
There is little work ethic - that is IMHO what saved people in the 30's.... people did what they had to do. In the 2010's, (many not all) people think some one will rescue them if they lose it all. In the 30's there was no welfare, there was no unemployment insurance, there wasn't any food banks, and yet people banded together and survived.
Shirley Issacs (with her husband George) who at one time owned much land between Kohala and Kona, took a train from Michigan to California in the 30's - rode like the hobo's - with a ham, and carrots from their garden (she never wanted to eat them since). Went to work at a retail store in LA....married then widowed, ...few years later met George... worked hard... amassed property piece by piece ... built a house in Hawaii Kai on the ocean.... built a $13M house in Kohala...
Those are the stories I like to hear. From nothing through hard work. She once told the cleaning people and I saw her do this - "I am not going to ask you to do something I wont do" - as Shirley scrubbed the toilet out when she was about 65.
There is little work ethic - that is IMHO what saved people in the 30's.... people did what they had to do. In the 2010's, (many not all) people think some one will rescue them if they lose it all. In the 30's there was no welfare, there was no unemployment insurance, there wasn't any food banks, and yet people banded together and survived.
Shirley Issacs (with her husband George) who at one time owned much land between Kohala and Kona, took a train from Michigan to California in the 30's - rode like the hobo's - with a ham, and carrots from their garden (she never wanted to eat them since). Went to work at a retail store in LA....married then widowed, ...few years later met George... worked hard... amassed property piece by piece ... built a house in Hawaii Kai on the ocean.... built a $13M house in Kohala...
Those are the stories I like to hear. From nothing through hard work. She once told the cleaning people and I saw her do this - "I am not going to ask you to do something I wont do" - as Shirley scrubbed the toilet out when she was about 65.
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me."
-Dudley Field Malone
-Dudley Field Malone