“So, you think you got it bad?”

blog42One of the easiest things to do is complain.  And the people who do it most loudly most often are those who do not read history.  “Why,” they say, “in the old days things were so much better and efficient.”  Really? Here is how you got your mail during the early days of Alaska.  Until the city of Anchorage was founded in 1916 – can you see the “city” of Anchorage in the background – mail only came on ships.  When they came in. Imagine living in a “city” where there was only one doctor – if you were lucky.  Newspapers came out infrequently and everything was incredibly expensive because of travel costs. But giving credit where credit was due, if a public official in “the old days” proved incompetent, members of both parties made sure he no longer held that office. Humm, I wonder if there’s an historical lesson here.

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