Reply #10: That was the Golden Age of America. Prior to about 1945 none of those things were true.

[Speck Tater]

Go back to the mid to late 1800's and the media was openly and blatantly biased. There were Republican newspapers and Democratic newspapers. Objectivity was NOT the order of the day, pushing the party line was.

There were no unions to speak of and the robber barons pretty much treated the workers anyway they pleased, including firing them without cause and without warning.

The time you speak of was a very short-lived period in American history when the possibility of continued economic growth and prosperity still existed. Now those conditions no longer apply. Resources are running short, population is booming everywhere in the world overloading the labor markets, globalization has priced the American worker out of the market. The reason why things are not so rosy today is simply that they very special conditions necessary to support that way of life only existed for a brief span of time, and those conditions are gone, never to return.