In article , Swingman wrote:
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Basically, this is NOT the same country I grew up in ... if you weren't
here 50 years ago, you have NO idea how much it's changed, arguably, but
IMO, for the worse!

Isn't that the truth. My home town is Muskegon, Michigan, a city of some 60K
people, I think, when I lived there in the 1960s. I remember frequently going
downtown to the library, on the bus, *alone*, at the age of six or seven. It
was perfectly safe.

Any parent who allowed a child to do that now would be facing an investigation
by Child Protective Services.