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Here is a question that I've never been able to figure out about you libertarians, who is your voting base? You can forget about the minority vote and any liberals. The only people I see even being interested in your party is rich white people?
Come on, I bet if I sent you back to the 1800s you'd be singing a completely different tune on best years for the standard of living. One trip to the outhouse on a cold winter night and you'd be begging to come back to your nice climate controlled modern home.
Indeed.
Not to mention the fact that the average life expectancy of newborn in 1850 was a mere 38 years.
In 1900 it was still only 48 and even by 1920 it was still only 56. A big improvement over 1850's 38 but still nothing to crow about by todays' standards (roughly the same as places like Ethiopia and Botswana today).
I assumed the rich lost the most during the last recession too. I mean I've not looked it up or anything but it is often pointed out that the wealthy have far more of their net worth invested in things like the stock market, and that dropped from what 14k to 6k? Be an interesting thing to look into.
Come on, I bet if I sent you back to the 1800s you'd be singing a completely different tune on best years for the standard of living. One trip to the outhouse on a cold winter night and you'd be begging to come back to your nice climate controlled modern home.
Here is a question that I've never been able to figure out about you libertarians, who is your voting base? You can forget about the minority vote and any liberals. The only people I see even being interested in your party is rich white people?
Patriots, that have a national sense of identity as to what America used to stand for, liberty.
Cool post and pretty links but I certainly didn't claim anyone was or was not hurting. I'll try again, take your time with it:
Bentbow was implying this recession was different than previous because back then it was the rich who lost the most. I speculated that is the case this time too, just based on assumptions of where they park their money. I never said they were hurting, just that their net worth likely went down by a higher amount than your average Joe.
Yup, only one completely out of touch with reality would consider the lifestyle in the 1800s the high watermark of quality of life.
Cool post and pretty links but I certainly didn't claim anyone was or was not hurting. I'll try again, take your time with it:
Bentbow was implying this recession was different than previous because back then it was the rich who lost the most. I speculated that is the case this time too, just based on assumptions of where they park their money. I never said they were hurting, just that their net worth likely went down by a higher amount than your average Joe.
Do you disagree with that?
What an odd way of expressing yourself. I think I grasp what you are trying to say, they lose more in net worth because they have more, however it affects them less. Pelosi's investments are worth 62% more, as of 2010, so she isn't losing, she's gaining plenty. When the gov't is this involved in private business, if your in the favored category, you make out very well. GE Immelt comes to mind. Is Soros worth less? It all depends on who you are, and who you know.
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Here is a question that I've never been able to figure out about you libertarians, who is your voting base? You can forget about the minority vote and any liberals. The only people I see even being interested in your party is rich white people?
So minorities don't enjoy freedom? Interesting..and matter of fact I do believe we have several folks that voted Obama in 2008 that wanted Ron Paul this year.
So minorities don't enjoy freedom? Interesting..and matter of fact I do believe we have several folks that voted Obama in 2008 that wanted Ron Paul this year.
First off, not everyone here is a Libertarian. Which has nothing to do with this topic anyway.
He keeps keeps repeating that along with some bizarre off topic connection to Darwinism. (I think he just likes the word maybe.)
Secondly minorities don't all vote democrat.
If he is referencing Paul, both he and his son are Republicans, not Libertarians.
Here is a question that I've never been able to figure out about you libertarians, who is your voting base? You can forget about the minority vote and any liberals. The only people I see even being interested in your party is rich white people?
Well, I can assure you, I may be white, but I'm not rich, so way to once again generalize and paint all libertarians with a broad brush!
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Originally Posted by claudhopper
Patriots, that have a national sense of identity as to what America used to stand for, liberty.
Shhh claudhopper. You might wake some of the sheeple up from their slumber! Don't ya know liberty is just crazy talk, and that the Constitution is just an outdated document!
Indeed.
Not to mention the fact that the average life expectancy of newborn in 1850 was a mere 38 years.
In 1900 it was still only 48 and even by 1920 it was still only 56. A big improvement over 1850's 38 but still nothing to crow about by todays' standards (roughly the same as places like Ethiopia and Botswana today).
The only thing worse about health and life expectency back then was the infant mortality rate because there were no incubators. The percentage of people that suffered chronic and degenerative diseases and wasted away the last ten years of their lives with a low quality of lives practically bed ridden was next to nil. If they lived past the child hood diseases, they lived until their late 70's; 80's 90's or later and died healthy in their sleep! That kind of health and quality of life is a rarity today -- not the norm like it was back then. If you take out the people who died as infants or toddlers. Don't average in their ages at death and or instead look at the MEAN age which would show the age people were when death was most common, you'd see it was a LOT older than it is today. Our standard of living was NOTHING l.ike Ethiopia. That is THE MOST PREPOSTEROUS THING I'VE EVER HEARD!
LOOK AT THIS LADIE'S HOME JOURNAL ARTICLE FROM BACK THEN AND (GET AN EDUCATION). LOOK AT THE BUNGALOWS YOU COULD GET FOR AS LITTLE AS $5! You'd be lucky to pay $400k for one today average! Back then a loaf of bread was the equivalent of a few cents. Are you KIDDING ME!????! More people lived a higher standard of living than EVER BEFORE in this country's history then. http://www.historichousecolors.com/d...owBasicLHJ.pdf
Look at the clothes they wore back then. You'd pay thousands of dollars per outfit to dress like that today.
Look at what kids wore. They were hardly your cheap Walmart or JC Penney specials. Rather more like high end Saks Fifth Ave. style and quality. Look at the quality in these kids clothes from the 1870s.Children in Costume History 1870-80 - Victorian Fashions for Girls
Look at the ladies' hairstyles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX1PC...=results_video Those must have taken hours to do. Look at what this person goes through to do one today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N7_7...eature=related Who today has the luxury of taking that kind of time on their hair. The answer of course is FEW because all women today are out slaving away working to help their husbands pay the outrageous mortgage on their cheap cookie home that's nowhere near the quality they would have had in those days on just one income.
Back then more people had style; class; education; panache; manners; intelligence and it was the norm rather than the exception the way it is today. Just look at this description of a Victorian Era Dinner party: http://www.angelpig.net/victorian/di...y-conduct.html
It was also the era when Culinary Schools first were established in the United States.
Here's a video of what a Victorian Summer Camp was like and lots of kids of today seem to think it might have been kind of special being a kid back then. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfmfO...=results_video
The big difference between then and now was that luxury was a LOT more accessible to a LOT more people than it is today ---and it all happened because there was NO CENTRAL BANK. The free market determined the purchasing power of the dollar. I'd gladly go back to stress free care free days like most people had back then where their biggest worry was getting ready for afternoon tea.
Need I go on????
BTW that life expectancy argument is so WEAK. Even a mentally challenged person can figure out walking through any cemetery and reading grave stones that people who lived back then lived a LOT longer than 38 years.
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