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BuelahWitch

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56. Wasn't there a great deal of optimism in the '20s?

Reply to MannyGoldstein (Reply #39)

Wed Oct 16, 2013, 06:30 AM

Oct 2013

Before the crash? Today is more like early Depression years before Roosevelt.

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Ya know, when I was a kid we put a person on the Moon. [View all] MannyGoldstein Oct 2013 OP

And now the aspirations of too many extend no further than wrecking the budget. randome Oct 2013 #1

And people vote for these nuts. MannyGoldstein Oct 2013 #2

I remember Apollo 1 and the aftermath. SamYeager Oct 2013 #3

I didn't know that. MannyGoldstein Oct 2013 #8

I suggest "From the Earth to the Moon' SamYeager Oct 2013 #12

I did see that MannyGoldstein Oct 2013 #16

I have it on disk SamYeager Oct 2013 #23

By that time, we already had Tang and the miniaturization of electronics. AnotherMcIntosh Oct 2013 #42

Apollo 11 was the first one that landed on the moon DavidDvorkin Oct 2013 #59

Apollo 1 was the one that burned up the astronauts on the pad SamYeager Oct 2013 #60

Correct DavidDvorkin Oct 2013 #61

I hear ya Manny. We use to think our Nation was forward thinking...sad. n/t KelleyD Oct 2013 #4

You think we could put the whole damn Teapublican Party there now…? regnaD kciN Oct 2013 #5

lol - TBF Oct 2013 #58

Exceptionalism wasn't as revered then, and what they did orpupilofnature57 Oct 2013 #6

Amen Trailrider1951 Oct 2013 #19

regan...Kand R KelleyD Oct 2013 #7

Declining Empires lose track of what they were nadinbrzezinski Oct 2013 #9

Regna...sorry. I am 60 years old and in a way am glad I have just a few years left. Scary times n/ KelleyD Oct 2013 #10

You think these are the first scary times? MannyGoldstein Oct 2013 #28

+1000 !!!! orpupilofnature57 Oct 2013 #29

I can think of a few people to send to the moon right about now... The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2013 #11

We put them on the Moon and brought them home again. Bluenorthwest Oct 2013 #13

And now the Republicans are mooning the nation Fumesucker Oct 2013 #14

Was that necessary? randome Oct 2013 #15

Big, round Fumesucker Oct 2013 #21

LOL! MannyGoldstein Oct 2013 #17

LOL, gee, no kidding Trailrider1951 Oct 2013 #22

Wouldn't Boner be more like this? hootinholler Oct 2013 #34

That's what the Repuks are doing...Mooning the American Public...assholes! KelleyD Oct 2013 #18

when i was a kid in the 50`s madrchsod Oct 2013 #20

I wonder what Ike would say about the Rethugs of today. roamer65 Oct 2013 #24

My brush with greatness... MannyGoldstein Oct 2013 #26

He also had enough forsight, and sense of duty to warn us orpupilofnature57 Oct 2013 #30

His best line, when asked about Nixon's contributions: "If you give me a few weeks, I may be able to AnotherMcIntosh Oct 2013 #44

Waiting in the wings, to fulfill hs part of the ' Business plot ' orpupilofnature57 Oct 2013 #54

me too. wow your op made me sad. elehhhhna Oct 2013 #25

On the bright side, it can help us to recalibrate MannyGoldstein Oct 2013 #27

No more big things from the US. al_liberal Oct 2013 #31

Were the 1920s so different from today? MannyGoldstein Oct 2013 #39

Wasn't there a great deal of optimism in the '20s? BuelahWitch Oct 2013 #56

"More than 60 per cent of Americans lived just below the poverty line" MannyGoldstein Oct 2013 #57

Pfft, that's nothing. NuclearDem Oct 2013 #32

The experiment was a failure. randome Oct 2013 #37

correction: SCOTUS put a chimp in the white house noiretextatique Oct 2013 #62

We need to put about 300 more there now Spirochete Oct 2013 #33

Robert A. Heinlein Basically Predicted This Liberal_Dog Oct 2013 #35

There's always Gabby Giffords. WinkyDink Oct 2013 #36

Why bother? School staff and kids are more plentiful for the crazies w/guns. MichiganVote Oct 2013 #38

But when you were a kid did they have the NSA? Demo_Chris Oct 2013 #40

I thought all the freely available porn was progress. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2013 #46

Manny this bunch grew up on KentuckyWoman Oct 2013 #41

But before Cronkite, Murrow et al MannyGoldstein Oct 2013 #43

Nixon reduced all of that into "A Kennedy thing" and he ended it out of petty spite.... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2013 #45

But Democrats were Democrats MannyGoldstein Oct 2013 #48

Well, Clinton once bragged that he was able to raise more corporate money than Republiicans.... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2013 #49

Well, but we had the USSR to scare us into action then.... Moonwalk Oct 2013 #47

We built an interstate hwy system too.. We use to be great B Calm Oct 2013 #50

There was a shared purpose,everyone worked together to move the country forward Rain Mcloud Oct 2013 #51

Okay that did not work,Bob Segar's Making Thunderbirds Rain Mcloud Oct 2013 #52

I was just talking about this today matt819 Oct 2013 #53

Well we know what they thought of high speed rail! B Calm Oct 2013 #55