Posted on 04/24/2024 10:32:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Divorce one’s husband and ka-ching you’ve hit the jackpot!
How are you fixed for ribbon? In the early ‘80s, the lab I worked in used a mylar(?) ribbon in our Selectric. Use once only, and the struck letters were clearly visible on the ribbon. Ribbon had to be secured when not in use, and disposed of “properly” when used up.
Some more stats that make you understand how badly our country has been destroyed....
Church membership was 70% in 1992. It is now 46%.
The percentage of families that needed 2 full time workers was 30% in 1970. It is now 60%.
The percentage of children living in 2 parent households was 85% in 1970. It is now 65%.
The rate of “severe obesity” was 10% in 1970. It is now 20%.
The suicide rate was 10 per 100k in 1992. It is now 17 per 100k.
2 dollars for a phone call. That’s pretty pricy. I’ll take todays phone thank you.
Preach it Brother!
(I smoke) ;)
You got that right. The 21st Century is a beautiful thing.
I knew several age mates who went into the Peace Corps. They came back radicalized and anti-American.
Age of Aquarius
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE
In 1962 the Supreme Court threw God out of public life. A year later our President was murdered, riots began in 64, the first widespread drug use started, endless war, crime began to rise, families began to break down, schools started their downward spiral, record inflation, scandels, on and on. Yes, there is a strong correlation to the actions of the Supreme Court and what happened to society afterwards.
I think that was largely its purpose, to create a sort of left’s form of military academy.
Every time I hear someone suggest a national service program that isn’t military I know what it will be, a program to organize and put them under leadership that will indoctrinate the kids and shape them ideologically and who will identify and connect with the more talented ones to steer them into careers of influence, while at the least influencing the lifelong politics and ideals of the rest.
Having lived through the ‘60s, I understand the significance of JFK’s election, but was not the number one cause of the decade, but rather an effect. Demographics was the prime cause of the ‘60s. The huge Boomer generation was coming of age at the same time older people were anxious to move on from the age of Eisenhower and the greatest generation. I actually met Kennedy at a campaign rally he held at Montgomery Blair H.S. A little more than two years later, I was standing outside of the Bethesda Naval Hospital watching his body arrive in a grey ambulance.
The 60s was the decade of the generation before the boomers.
In 1960 the oldest boomer was 14.
If Eisenhower’s veep, the 1960 version of Nixon, had won the election most of the 60s would not have happened and the left would not have had so much raw meat to work with and then the follow up mass 3rd world replacement immigration to keep it going.
No Vietnam, no 1960s era dominated by Vietnam and draft resistance, no Kennedy assassinations, no unionizing of government employees, NO 1965 IMMIGRATION ACT that led to the end of America, no creating of the myth of the JFK Camelot fantasy built into the American Psyche as something that existed and then was killed by the non-liberal ugliness of the American people.
No Watergate, no Bay of Pigs fiasco, a possible President Reagan in 1968 without any Bush dynasty being created, no LBJ, no Goldwater debacle, no creation of Ted Kennedy the Senatorial Giant, no mass transformation of so many institutions such as the left solidifying control over the universities, no war against the mental hospitals, probably no affirmative action Executive Order and so much more.
Bookmark.
Long distance. Expensive back then.
Pay phones were a dime.
yep, it is a fallacy to think everyone had long hair and was a hippie in the 60’s.
Most people still looked like what you think people looked like in the 50’s during the 60’s
I can tell you this: The old coots the press used to run to back then to get their uncool old coot opinion on the latest boomer burning, sit in, riot or perversity were one hundred percent correct in where they said it would all lead…RIGHT HERE WHERE WE ARE NOW.
“”””Pay phones were a dime.””””
Except for Louisiana where they were a nickel, I don’t know why.
“”””yep, it is a fallacy to think everyone had long hair and was a hippie in the 60’s.
Most people still looked like what you think people looked like in the 50’s during the 60’s””””
People don’t realize that the under 30s voted 52% for Nixon in 1972 and were the age group that most supported the Vietnam War.
Great times civility was in season beautiful cars............
Between 1880 and 1960 the inflation rate was 100%. That is 80 years for prices to double.
Between 1960 and 2024 the inflation rate was over 955%, in only 64 years.
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