[1rudeboy]

... Except, you know, for those first hundred years or so...

Yeah, I miss those days. No electricity, or running water . . . and if you need to get somewhere you rode a horse.

[cuban leaf]

Yeah, I miss those days. No electricity, or running water . . . and if you need to get somewhere you rode a horse.

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Me too. When men were men, women were scarce, and sheep were nervous.

[Resolute Conservative]

What is better times for $1000 Alex?

[Kenny Bunk]

Rudeboy, 100 years ago, you could have taken a fast comfortable train to most of the towns in this country you can name.

Fast, efficient trolley lines served thousands of communities, large and small.

Traffic moved through Manhattan faster than today.

If you needed electricity, you could certainly have had it. Ditto a fine automobile.

If you had a high school diploma, it was proof that you could read and write ... on the same day.

School teachers and civil servants were Conservatives. But, the Republicans were just about ready to shoot themselves in the foot, with Ted Roosevelt (a big government progressive) forming the Bull Moose Party that enabled Wilson to slip into the White House to lead us to war and ruined economy.

Fortunately, people were smart enough then to replace him with Harding, who although much maligned, was smart enough to keep taxes and government expenses low for a brilliant economic recovery.

Nothing much wrong with this country 100 years ago ... compared to the one we live in today under the imperial thumb of a queer African-born marxist dictator who is slowly strangling us.

[NVDave]

You know, there were these things called “carriages” and such. You didn’t need to plant your pampered buttocks into a saddle to get somewhere.