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In Reply to: Nostalgic for the gilded age? posted by hcman on December 18, 2014 at 23:51:04:
Don't tell anyone, but yes: if anyone in the Middle Class longs for the return of a truly free market, they don't know their history.
The first half of the book, "Flags of our Fathers" provides an excellent thumbnail sketch of working life in America in the '30s/'40's before Unions and Gov't investment.
It's just bizarre to me that the generation that benefited the most from Socialism...thinks they "built it themselves."
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- Wow! You said it! - jdaniel@jps.net 06:48:33 12/19/14 (5)
- Well said. It's as if several generations have forgotten Teddy Roosevelt and the chief reason for his immense - tinear 07:48:26 12/19/14 (4)
- It’s too early for a stiff single malt so I think I will need to go and lay down, I feel decidedly faint … - three_sox 16:00:56 12/19/14 (1)
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- RE: Well said. It's as if several generations have forgotten Teddy Roosevelt and the chief reason for his immense - b.l.zeebub 09:24:54 12/19/14 (1)
- Mainly, it's dumb middle-aged (and older) white males. Can't feel sorry for those idiots. nt - tinear 10:00:03 12/19/14 (0)