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In reply to the discussion: A lot of people here experienced the Good Old Days very differently than my family did, I guess [View all]alain2112
(25 posts)71. Thanks for the story
This has absolutely nothing to do with you, you are great, but I am actually shocked by the people around here who are more interested in arguing with the monsters that live in their own heads than they are interested in reasoning together with a person of broadly leftist views who might (might) hold slightly different opinions on some matter.
Is everyone really this quick on the draw around here? A habit of launching pre-emptive scorched earth counter offensives does does not bode well for advancing the Left agenda.
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A lot of people here experienced the Good Old Days very differently than my family did, I guess [View all]
Recursion
Jun 2016
OP
If you were a child in the seventies (I was a starving adult) you were in the throes of
MADem
Jun 2016
#2
You blame the unions and ignore the murder just like the trade deals do. How quaint....
think
Jun 2016
#64
The unions are failing because we send our jobs to countries where union leaders are murdered.
think
Jun 2016
#68
Never had that problem in my father's Union... they busted up the 'busters' at Turkey Point Nuclear
Ghost in the Machine
Jun 2016
#44
I very much hope those responsible spent the rest of their lives in prison.
Donald Ian Rankin
Jun 2016
#91
These are stories that I heard when I was growing up. I neither condoned, nor condemned them,
Ghost in the Machine
Jun 2016
#106
Well said. Posts like the OP do nothing but advertise ignorance of others' experiences. nt
vintx
Jun 2016
#86
Graphic and eloquent testimony to the dubious value of "back in the day" nostalgia. Thanks for this.
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#9
It's an astounding coincidence that the apogee of popular music was my senior year in college
Recursion
Jun 2016
#23
OK, but the 50s and 60s economy was entirely based on keeping non-white non-male labor cheap
Recursion
Jun 2016
#21
The meme that really irks me is "a high school graduate could support a family of four"
Recursion
Jun 2016
#38
That was true here for the lucky ones that had family either in management or union positions
doc03
Jun 2016
#80
I think that's the secret behind the paradox that real wages are much higher now
Recursion
Jun 2016
#104
I can't speak for everyone, nor would I try to. I also can't speak to your own situation. But
silvershadow
Jun 2016
#43
As one who came out of active 4yr duty in the Navy in '64, I had a choice of three places to work...
dmosh42
Jun 2016
#55
Nixon and Ford were both hamfisted Republicans who thought 4% inflation was a holocaust
Warpy
Jun 2016
#62
It depended on where you lived too. If you lived in some areas in FL there were no real jobs
Seeinghope
Jun 2016
#108