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One income would pay for a home, a car, and send the kids to college ...

It still can.

2 posted on 07/06/2010 12:11:29 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)

In 1950 anyone who would get up and go to work could make a descent wage. Get a job that same week. One income would pay for a home, a car, and send the kids to college.

But it is completely inaccurate to suggest that scenario was any sort of norm for America. It resulted from our victory in WWII and the ruin of the rest of the developed world's industry. Those times aren't coming back, except in the wake of another major war.

Union bosses make the same error, though for them it is a deliberate lie.

4 posted on 07/06/2010 12:23:35 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)