Posted on 04/02/2016 7:24:52 AM PDT by Macoozie
. . . what's most striking to the chart above isn't the spread between Trumpists and Clintonistas (though it is stunning, to be sure), it's that only a bare majority of the latter feel things are better now than they were 50 years ago.
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So, WAS life better 50 years ago? Even given the constant advances in technology and efforts to make our lives healthier and easier, I think it was a better time back in 1966. Less complicated, more optimism about the future and good economic times.
I celebrate my Half-Century high school reunion this fall in Tempe, AZ. Our class motto said it all: "We Have Fun. We Have Kicks. We're the Class of '66!" My former classmates and I will celebrate that period of time in our lives with nostalgia and fond reminisces and memories at our 50th reunion in October. Why? Because it was a better time for us, looking back on the totality of our whole lives.
But we can't go back. Today is what it is. We control what happens next.
Absolutely it was. As I have aged and reflected on life, I am aware that our town was divided: colored town and white town. Coloreds did not have it so well - very poor, worked for nothing. However, I have noticed that AA are much better off now but their morals have deteriorated just like the whites. That part is the saddest part of change and progression
I well remember 50 years ago, and one thing I know is that there was more personal freedom. Actually had small banks where the people knew your name and your parents. $10,000 was a large mortgage and even a fumble finger like myself could fix the minor stuff on his car. Medicine was not as high powered but a lot cheaper. College tuition cost the equivalent of $1500 a year and not $15000.
Senior class boomer here, b. 1945.
“Well 50 years ago the ads for medicines didn’t run 50% of the ad time with the life threatening side effects. LOL!”
Government mandate. We need to get government OUT of medicine.
You know, in some respects, that is right...
But think about this...
50 years ago and earlier, we were finding “cures” for ailments...Once cured, you didn’t have any more problems with the illnesses...
Today, we are finding “treatments”...These treatments are ongoing and what you paid one time for a “cure” back then is now continuous payments for “treatments...
The pharmaceutical companies have figured out that one-time “cures” aren’t as lucrative as continuous “treatments”...
Just my opinion...
Hell no. I want to know that my left breast may fall off if I take Areaolizitimate (I made that up) for my arthritis. :-)
There were a couple of famous unsolved kidnappings in Chicago in the 1950s, the Peterson-Schuessler boys circa 1955 and the Grimes girls around 1959. All of them found dead under suspicious circumstances.
You could’ve done like me and quite a lot of others...Go in the military, then go to school on the GI Bill...Worked for me. Two Bachelor’s and a Masters....
This from an 85 year old person, life was much better 50 years ago and I was working for a living at that time and saving for this time in my life.
Shortly before he died, the great Joseph Sobran suggested the only thing that got much better is the car stereo.
“Today, we are finding “treatments”...”
yep. That’s been my war cry against medicine. Treatment of cancer is a multi-billion dollar business. The cure would result in much lower revenues. Medicine is a churning, repeat business industry. We no longer desire to cure anything.
I’m with you. Big Pharma has run out of new cures so they are forced to come up with semi cures that have horrible side effects but might do some good. Frankly I’d rather just have the disease based on most of the ads.
I have osteoarthritis. It runs in the family and we all get it starting pretty early. I’m not even planning on taking Celebrex if I can help it. Most of the time I just ignore it and I started taking turmeric about 6 mos ago. Its unbelievably effective. I have half the pain I used to. Mr. GG2 orders the organic turmeric online and we put it in the capsules ourselves. Take two capsules a day and you see a difference in a few days. No side effects.
50 years ago men were men and women were women. We all knew it. They all knew it.
Today—nobody is sure.
Vatican II ruined everything.
“Gillespie is 52 years old.” (just a kid)
Nuff Said, science is settled !......LOL
*ROFL* Oh Lord, I saw your nickname and age...That is clever...You have a great sense of humor!!!!!
50 years ago our country had not yet legalized the savage murder of millions and millions of pre-born human beings. We also did not have a legal way for perverted men to "marry" other perverted men, or for perverted women to "marry" other perverted women.
You also did not have to worry about censoring every single word that came out of your mouth, lest you get in big trouble with the dictatorial speech and thought police.
I could go on, and on, and on, endlessly, but life was definitely much better 50 years ago, in so many ways.
50 years ago?
Anyone at 18 yrs old, and able to hear thunder and see lightning, could get a good paying job that would support a family.
You could buy full sized Ford 150 4x4 for less than $3K.
Queers hadn’t invented AIDS yet, and were kept in the closet by normal people that beat the piss out of them if they ever got out.
The summer of love was still a couple years away, but I’m here to tell you the girls were Auditioning for the part!
Yeah, life was good!
I will second that-——from a 93 year old WW2 combat vet
On long trips I have been known to sleep on the package shelf in the rear window. My sister who was older got the seat. On at least a few occasions a quick stop sent me rolling off on top of her. I can remember sitting on my dad’s lap and steering wheel while he worked the peddles. I guess I was his airbag of sorts.
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