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Usually, but not always, and I do not see one for this vid. But I did watch it, 19 minutes, and it is indeed interesting, Began about 10 minute mark for condensed version.
When I was a senior in high school, 1969, a man could get a job at the cotton mill, milk plant, hardware store, the Amana or Scovill factory - or even pumping gas, and provide for his stay-at-home wife and children.
China was not a competitor then. Most people considered welfare to have a stigma. We had not proceeded down the Cloward - Pivan path as we have for the last almost 60 years.
How much is driven by the Leftists deliberately degrading our society and importing tens of millions of people from the third world?
From my perspective? An enormous amount.
That’s all we is...
;-)
Sent this to almost everyone I know. It ecplains WHY the world operates as it does today. Total money-hungry, completely ruthless bankers.
My home and most others with a working adult had air conditioning.
The tech gadgets had not yet been invented but eventually would have been - and reasonably priced in a Gold Standard world, if they wanted to mass-market them.
Wish-list items were sensibly planned for via Christmas clubs and savings accounts. As a teen, I bought a few items at the Western Auto on a payment plan, no interest.
Only homes and perhaps autos and large home improvements required bank loans. And, for all you say, I guess you use a credit cards(s) for convenience, then pay the bill in full each month.
Receiving food stamps was a mark of shame. Now your EBT card usage is publicized and celebrated online.
...down the Cloward - Pivan path as we have for the last almost 60 years.
Sent this to almost everyone I know. It explains WHY the world operates as it does today. Total money-hungry, completely ruthless bankers.
And that "bulk of the US populace, well-off and happy" lived in a Gold Standard world.
As much as we are proud of Trump, he would be siding with the post-Gold Standard bankers and FED as a “necessary thing.”
I dare say that a man today could still get a job at the cotton mill, milk plant, hardware store, the Amana or Scovill factory - or even pumping gas, and provide for his stay-at-home wife and children, on the condition that he was prepared to hustle, and put in 10-15 hrs of overtime per week.
It would be very minimalistic, but it would suffice.
The big difference is that, today, no woman would consent to marrying such a man.
Women's standards have risen.
Regards,
Review
The PTB foresaw this and made it happen.
Thus, people quite rightly use the term "debt slaves," where, instead of the serf paying the noble as you labored in his fields, workers of today slave for a whole host of "nobles" in the form of various interest payments.
By running up and paying on a properly managed national debt, a country makes its currency more attractive because holdings of cash can be sold for high quality debt issued by that country. In effect, buyers of national debt issued in a country's currency become economic supporters of that country and its currency.
That is why Putin and other adversaries of the US howl and grind their teeth over the dollar's role as the world's primary transaction and reserve currency. They may be adversaries of the US, but due to the dollar's privileged status, they and the rest of the world are subject to American economic and political leverage, even against their long-term desires and interests.
What does America do with her outsize ability to borrow as a country? In part, we finance America's national security through global military reach, which makes the dollar stronger and Americans overseas and the US homeland more secure. We also finance domestic public works and programs. Mostly though, America finances Medicare and Social Security and easier, earlier, and more secure retirement for millions of older Americans.
The net result is that when compared to the rest of the world, ordinary Americans have money, security, and opportunity. When America's political and cultural attractiveness are added in, ordinary Americans become the planet's cool kids. And that is not a bad thing to be.
As for the choices of marriage, that is an entirely different matter - excepting that today’s world awash in punishing debt affects every aspect of everyone’s lives.
Well isn't it?
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Most people considered welfare to have a stigma.
Well isn’t it?
They have been somewhat successful.
It is part of the worldview they promote, that no one is successful or not on their own merits.
My home and most others with a working adult had air conditioning.
Most people did not have air conditioning. Our house, growing up, had wood heat. Wood heat in a northern climate, at the time, took a lot of work to keep the inefficient central furnace in the basement fed.
Someone had to feed it in the middle of the night during winter, so the house would not freeze by morning. Mostly, my mother did the job. I often work up with ice on the inside of the windows. I had lots of friends whose homes were not as nice.
So, geography played a part, cities got electricity before rural areas. Electricity and running water were installed in the home I was born in (same house) just before I was born.
Many more children died in childbirth or of diseases in the couple of decades before 1969. Most survived, but the percentage who died was considerably higher.
The Depression and WWII generation had a much tougher time of it than the baby boomers. In large part, we prospered because of their hard work and sacrifice.
My parent grew up in a period when most farms still used horses to cultivate, electricity or indoor plumbing in the countryside was rare, railroads were more commonly used than automobiles, and a bad crop meant finding other work in the winter or starving.
All of that was under the gold standard. One of the big problems with the gold standard was deflation.
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