07-14-2016, 02:08 PM
You know, the Leave it to Beaver years.... Before Archie Bunker screwed it all up by saying on TV what people were hearing everyday in real life.
Making America Great Again
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07-14-2016, 02:08 PM
You know, the Leave it to Beaver years.... Before Archie Bunker screwed it all up by saying on TV what people were hearing everyday in real life.
07-14-2016, 02:14 PM
1945-1968
07-14-2016, 02:46 PM
OK, I'll bite.
When a family could live comfortably on one income. When they could afford to take vacations. When the wage-earner had a good pension and could retire without working until s/he was 70. When there were good American production jobs. When people had good medical benefits, like Blue Cross/Blue Shield, covered by their employers. So t-RUMP is going to bring jobs back here and restore pensions across the board to all workers? RIGHT.
07-14-2016, 03:55 PM
His supporters don't (or refuse to) understand "You can't go home again."
That is, the "home" of the past you long for no longer exists. It's not a place you can go back to.
07-14-2016, 04:21 PM
Deux is right, that America left you long ago.
I was a right in the middle of that era. As a teen, I could school and work (after a 90-minute bus trip) part time at the not so local Stop & Shop for the astounding benefit of $1.25/hr. So long as I lived at home and didn't need to pay for anything else I could save up enough to buy a 1953 Buick Super Convertible outright for a mere $300. No insurance, seatbelts or inspections needed. I could then buy 18-28ยข a gallon gas and not worry about the 5-6 MPG average and cavort throughout New England listening to WooWoo Arnie Ginsberg at the Adventure Car Hop. Fun was stuffing 3 buddies in the trunk while buying two tickets at the Meadow Glen Drive In, better fun was leaving them there for the first 1/2 hour of whatever horrible movie was being shown.
07-14-2016, 05:57 PM
Looking back from a white, middle-class perspective, I'd say the fifties were "great". Yeah, yeah, it's not true but it certainly feels true if you were a kid back then.
07-14-2016, 08:19 PM
My guess would be some time before the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
07-15-2016, 02:43 PM
Obviously the only answer is when Pres. Ronald Reagan was in office.
$tevie wrote: FTFY.
07-15-2016, 03:16 PM
Speedy wrote: FTFY. I had already covered white in my previous sentence. All the sentences in the post were related to each other.
07-15-2016, 03:24 PM
Redundancy provides emphasis.
$tevie wrote: FTFY. I had already covered white in my previous sentence. All the sentences in the post were related to each other. |
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