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**Tactattcahhaw** · 01-18-2011, 08:12 PM

I think that if one can look at the decline of the US objectively, it is clear that we got to where we are today, due to Repubs coming back into power, and changing up the goals of our economy. We moved from enriching ALL to concentrating on only enriching a few, having embraced trickle down economics. I have no doubt in my own mind that our decline lies with the fact that both Dems and Repubs deserted the economic model that created the America of the 50's and 60's. And I have no doubt that we cannot save ourselves unless we go back to what we know works, and while it would not be perfect, it is a damn site better than what the Repubs have given us. Their ways don't work! The evidence is all around us and is clear. If one puts the objective lens in their glasses.

You've got to ask yourself what was so different from the 50's-60's, than from immediately before and since.

Basically you've got the greatest generation at their peak. They grew up in the depression, and survived the war. Now that they were home they where building homes, having families, going to the Moon, building cars and highways, waging the Cold War, ect. The costs of the New Deal/Great Society didn't seem to be a big deal because, hey, look at all these kids. They knew what was real, they saw what really mattered during the war.

Of course in the 30's everyone was scared and cornered and not terribly rational. They wanted hope, and didn't much care about the long term costs. The 70's featured a bunch of spoiled and drug addled baby boomers who knew little of the struggles of their parents. If you go as far back as the 20's you find the first true urban generation who lack the natural protections of the self sufficient rural life. No doubt that is why the depression was so deep. Fast forward to the 80's and you've got baby boomers at their peak, living off the infrastructure their parents built, and still contributing far more to the entitlement system than it needed. Going foreword, one technological advance after another kept us busy. But most of it was so far removed from what was real and what kept things humming. Fat pensions, fat entitlements, ect.

The American people are waking back us to what is real. The regime is trying to cling to what isn't

01-18-2011, 08:12 PM	#18
Tactattcahhaw Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 564 Senior Member	I think that if one can look at the decline of the US objectively, it is clear that we got to where we are today, due to Repubs coming back into power, and changing up the goals of our economy. We moved from enriching ALL to concentrating on only enriching a few, having embraced trickle down economics. I have no doubt in my own mind that our decline lies with the fact that both Dems and Repubs deserted the economic model that created the America of the 50's and 60's. And I have no doubt that we cannot save ourselves unless we go back to what we know works, and while it would not be perfect, it is a damn site better than what the Repubs have given us. Their ways don't work! The evidence is all around us and is clear. If one puts the objective lens in their glasses. You've got to ask yourself what was so different from the 50's-60's, than from immediately before and since. Basically you've got the greatest generation at their peak. They grew up in the depression, and survived the war. Now that they were home they where building homes, having families, going to the Moon, building cars and highways, waging the Cold War, ect. The costs of the New Deal/Great Society didn't seem to be a big deal because, hey, look at all these kids. They knew what was real, they saw what really mattered during the war. Of course in the 30's everyone was scared and cornered and not terribly rational. They wanted hope, and didn't much care about the long term costs. The 70's featured a bunch of spoiled and drug addled baby boomers who knew little of the struggles of their parents. If you go as far back as the 20's you find the first true urban generation who lack the natural protections of the self sufficient rural life. No doubt that is why the depression was so deep. Fast forward to the 80's and you've got baby boomers at their peak, living off the infrastructure their parents built, and still contributing far more to the entitlement system than it needed. Going foreword, one technological advance after another kept us busy. But most of it was so far removed from what was real and what kept things humming. Fat pensions, fat entitlements, ect. The American people are waking back us to what is real. The regime is trying to cling to what isn't
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