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Americans want to 'live big' in the Trump era, Nobel Prize winner says
CNBC ^ | December 21, 2016 | Robert Frank

Posted on 12/22/2016 5:30:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just as the 80s were Morning in America this time will be Making America Great Again. And we need it as we’ve had no hope and no change the past eight years.


21 posted on 12/22/2016 7:04:54 PM PST by ealgeone
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In the mid-eighties I was selling pay phones on the side. There were days when I’d pick up a $30,000 commission check. That’s when a fully-loaded Mustang GT cost twelve grand.


22 posted on 12/22/2016 7:10:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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We’re going back to the Eighties, my friend. Just minus the bad stuff. :)

Of course, we’ll have new bad stuff, but hey :)


23 posted on 12/22/2016 7:15:15 PM PST by txhurl (Chode: a word about taglines)
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I’ve seen so many people driving BMW’s on a Chevy salary it made me sick. Living in six bedroom homes when they only had one kid and struggling to make the mortgage payment every month. Buying Christmas gifts every year as if they had just gotten a cash raise. I couldn’t dig up the courage to tell them what lay ahead because I would be considered an old fuddy duddy. It was as plain as daylight.


24 posted on 12/22/2016 7:23:33 PM PST by B4Ranch (Conservatives own 200,000,000 guns and a trillion rounds of ammo. If we were violent you'd know it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I well remember!


25 posted on 12/22/2016 7:28:06 PM PST by ealgeone
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It’s funny how yesterday’s conspiracy theorists are now the sane ones in the room, and yesterday’s dispensers of the collective wisdom have become wild-eyed paranoid hysterics.


26 posted on 12/22/2016 7:31:53 PM PST by thoughtomator (Purple: the color of sedition)
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H yea!


27 posted on 12/22/2016 8:13:29 PM PST by Rusty0604
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Shiller's comments add to budding sentiment that America's new billionaire-in-chief — with his gold-plated penthouse, private jumbo jet and multiple mansions — could shift American attitudes away from inequality and toward the 1980s-style aspiration and worship of wealth...

LOL! Might as well admit that Obama's fancy fetes and vacations, along with Hollywood's excesses are what they really are instead of slamming folks for enjoying the wages of their labors. They are upset because Communism/Socialism lost in the election.

28 posted on 12/23/2016 3:38:21 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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