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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 08:06 AM
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The golden years of the post WWII boom were an aberration.
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I mean the years of approximately 1945-1970. When GOOD jobs were plentiful (at least for white males) and a family could live what we would today consider a modest lifestyle on one income. When a majority of Americans could expect their standard of living to continue to rise, and for many it did.

Those days are gone with the wind, and I don't think things will be like that again in this country. I would love to be proven wrong, but I don't think I will.
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  -The golden years of the post WWII boom were an aberration. raccoon  May-23-08 08:06 AM   #0 
  - Ot was a bref moment in history,  Jackpine Radical   May-23-08 08:12 AM   #1 
  - Don't neglect the role of progressive taxation in the prosperity of those years  Cirque du So-What   May-23-08 08:36 AM   #2 
  - Good point. I'd like to see that progressive taxation again.  raccoon   May-23-08 08:59 AM   #4 
  - Great Point  ProfessorGAC   May-23-08 09:04 AM   #6 
  - I can recall my mother ranting about "confiscatory taxes".  Tracer   May-23-08 09:07 AM   #7 
  - You won't see that again, ever.  sinkingfeeling   May-23-08 08:55 AM   #3 
  - I think a lot of it had to do with the  logosoco   May-23-08 09:02 AM   #5 
  - I agree--The USA was the only game in town back then....  michigander3   May-23-08 09:20 AM   #8 
  - I got married...  GTurck   May-23-08 09:53 AM   #9 
  - Another factor  90-percent   May-23-08 10:48 AM   #10 
  - Back in the '50s and 60's, the economy was more local. You wanted to buy a house, you went to  sinkingfeeling   May-23-08 10:51 AM   #11 
  - I agree  LucyParsons   May-23-08 10:54 AM   #12 
 

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