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I miss America of the mid-1960's when it was not unsusal for a man with only a high school education could make enough money that he was able to buy a nice house in a nice safe neighborhood in a nice town with good public schools for less than $20,000 and buy a nice new late model family car for less than $3,000, take a 2 week vacation each year, take the family out to dinner for a good meal at least once a week and also on special occasions, and still be able to provide for his family on one sole income a nice, comfortable middle class lifestyle while his wife can be a stay at home mom and raise the kids.
I think that's when America was really great, and it wasn't all that long ago, less than 60 years ago. If you're young, 60 years might seem so far away that you kinda think it's never gonna get here; But let me tell ya, if you haven't been paying attention, 60 years will have gone by and you'll be asking yourself, "oh my gosh, where have the years gone?
Now everything is so out of whack, no way an average 3 bedroom ranch style house in a modest middle income neighborhood should cost $350,000 or a mid sized family car for $25,000.
Part of that is just inflation - a simple monetary problem caused entirely by central bankers.
Another part is Marxist ideology that pushed women out of their family homes and into the workforce. Which employers applauded since they now got twice the workers for less than twice the cost.
A true lose-lose situation arose for the American family.
The last part of this trifecta is mass immigration since 1965 which is responsible for adding about 75M to the population of the United States, or roughly 1/3 increase in just that last 50 years.
It seems that the people who never really learn that lesson are the numbskulls who keep putting republicans or those pretending to be, in office. It's not hard to understand why those from that party, as well as other sorts of criminals, would want to be in positions to loot our country for their own benefit. They are what they are, but the misinformed voters have no rational purpose for electing them.
Oh I’m sure plenty of voters learned their lesson because that’s were Democrats lost their votes!
And pleassse you act like Democrats Politicians are saints. Both sides have their fair share of corruption. How many of you believed all of Hillary’s lies? Talk about gullible!
Ironic how you talk about hate and yet you have one the most hateful posts I’ve ever read in this forum. If Obama was so loved, Hillary should have easily won the election. You realize a good chunk of those Trump voters voted previously for Obama right?
I can vouch for that. I'm a registered Democrat. Voted for Clinton, voted for Gore, voted for Obama, voted for Trump. I know many that did the same thing.
I can vouch for that. I'm a registered Democrat. Voted for Clinton, voted for Gore, voted for Obama, voted for Trump. I know many that did the same thing.
Conversely I don't know one Democrat who voted for Trump. In fact the only people I know of who voted for Trump are white.
Conversely I don't know one Democrat who voted for Trump. In fact the only people I know of who voted for Trump are white.
They must be terrible people. The vast majority of White people voted for Trump. No surprise as they have been leaving the Democrat party for years. In just over 20 years the Dems went from winning 49% of the white vote to 39%:
"Bill Clinton won 49 percent of the white two-party vote in 1996. Al Gore won 43 percent in 2000. John F. Kerry won 41 percent in 2004. Barack Obama won a slightly larger share in 2008, but then dropped to only 39 percent in his 2012 reelection bid. Hillary Clinton got the same percentage as Obama."
In a way, I actually do miss some things about pre-Trump America, and here's why:
I miss being able to watch award shows and late-night talk shows just for entertainment, good music,and genuine humor, instead of having to have the latest politically correct viewpoints of B-list celebrities shoved down my throat. Which, doesn't really happen anymore I guess, because I no longer watch award shows, or late night talk shows, for explicitly that reason.
I actually miss pre-1980 America, but there's not going back - ain't that a shame.
"I miss being able to watch award shows and late-night talk shows just for entertainment, good music,and genuine humor, instead of having to have the latest politically correct viewpoints of B-list celebrities shoved down my throat."
The political climate has gotten nastier, no doubt about that. That said, this is not new to Trump - this is the second President in a row, not the first, to enrage half of America by only being a President for half the country and having an honesty problem. The deepening of political fissures is a problem, but this has now been going on for a decade, even if many Democrats had their head in the sands as to what was going on when the shoe was on the other foot.
If Clinton had beat Obama in the Democrat primary back in the run-up to the 2008 election we'd be living in a far more politically civil country right now (for all Republicans don't like her she would have likely been a far less divisive president once in office), and Trump would not have had a chance in the Republican primary in the runup to 2016, but that's history at this point.
"The political climate has gotten nastier, no doubt about that. That said, this is not new to Trump"
Many on here are too young to remember the John Tower hearings, where at the end he said. "Where do I go to get my reputation back" after being so brutally attacked by dems.
Or Clarence Thomas who said after his hearings were over, "a modern day LYNCHING" by the dems
The clinton war room to go after the women who made sex accusations against bill to "TRASH" them and ruin their reputations. After all, they were just "trailer trash"!
The dems have been doing it for DECADES! All the while for NOT going after ted kenndy after he killed Mary Jo.
I miss America of the mid-1960's when it was not unsusal for a man with only a high school education could make enough money that he was able to buy a nice house in a nice safe neighborhood in a nice town with good public schools for less than $20,000 and buy a nice new late model family car for less than $3,000, take a 2 week vacation each year, take the family out to dinner for a good meal at least once a week and also on special occasions, and still be able to provide for his family on one sole income a nice, comfortable middle class lifestyle while his wife can be a stay at home mom and raise the kids.
I think that's when America was really great, and it wasn't all that long ago, less than 60 years ago. If you're young, 60 years might seem so far away that you kinda think it's never gonna get here; But let me tell ya, if you haven't been paying attention, 60 years will have gone by and you'll be asking yourself, "oh my gosh, where have the years gone?
Now everything is so out of whack, no way an average 3 bedroom ranch style house in a modest middle income neighborhood should cost $350,000 or a mid sized family car for $25,000.
" no way an average 3 bedroom ranch style house in a modest middle income neighborhood should cost $350,000"
Depends on where you live. Always has, always will.
"The median home value in Brunswick County is $235,100"
In all seriousness though, Trump is a ticking time bomb, and he’s being played by dictators who are much smarter than him. I just hope that we can get through this without having a serious war!
More like a STORM
Quote:
I am going to take the power from Washington DC. and return it back to you, THE PEOPLE
Promises made
Promises kept.
You guys better hurry up and try to kill off this guy, like you have been talking about for the last 2 years, before America is Great Again.
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