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YoungDemCA

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2. Where did I imply anything of that sort?

Reply to Brickbat (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 01:21 PM

Feb 2013

The economic boom of the post-war era, for what it's worth, was enjoyed by much of the American population, but by no means all of it, in no small part because of said social attitudes.

I know that a lot of things were better back then for many people, but as I stated above-that by no means applied to everybody.

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To those Americans who pine for the "good ole days".... [View all] YoungDemCA Feb 2013 OP

Holy shit, you're right. If we went back to 1950s-level taxation, unionization and domestic Brickbat Feb 2013 #1

Where did I imply anything of that sort? YoungDemCA Feb 2013 #2

More Succinct than I would have said i el_bryanto Feb 2013 #3

Except that the 1950's economy had very little to do with any of those things Spider Jerusalem Feb 2013 #6

Bringng back old tax rates would not magically iemitsu Feb 2013 #10

Trouble is Cirque du So-What Feb 2013 #4

For me, the good ole days were.. Puzzledtraveller Feb 2013 #5

Embrace the Present. randome Feb 2013 #7

Lots of dunces I know like to cherry pick and conflate old & new Populist_Prole Feb 2013 #8

There were certainly many things about the "good old days" iemitsu Feb 2013 #9