I hear all the time that the 90's were such a simpler, peaceful time, especially compared to now. I have to laugh at this, because back during the

actual 90's people talked about how awful the 90's were and how much simpler things were in the 60's and 70's. As I recall there was a lot more crime in the 90's. School shootings started happening. There was very little discipline in the homes, at least according to teachers. The "everybody is disposable" attitude became the norm within most companies. In fact things really started going south in the 90's. They are absolutely right about one thing though, life was very affordable and affluent as far as money goes. I remember the 90's and early 2000's as being a very cushy time to live in as far as money and material things go.

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SandWitch · 26-30, F

Really? The USA unilaterally invaded Iraq in the early 1990's in search of weapons of mass destruction which never materialized, yet cost the American taxpayers $1million dollars per day to be over there, despite the USA losing that war when the US military finally retreated and went home empty handed.

That US Intel-gathering catastrophe was followed by economic recession in the 1990's in the USA which saw unemployment swell to 7.9% after a faster than average economy growth of 3.4% in just one year.

They were prosperous times on the surface or so it appeared, but in reality, the economy in the USA was setting itself up for a drastic fall which of course followed. The 1990's in the USA were no different really than the boom-times of the 1920's which then led to The Great Depression of 1929.