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I stated that WWII did lower unemployment and it continued in the post war period.

You are falsely concluding cause and effect. Ultimately, unemployment decreased despite WWII, not because of it.

The baby boom generation of the late 1940's and early 1950s were not disadvantaged by women in the workforce.

You are asserting that the moral decay of the '60s and '70s had nothing whatsoever to do with the major decrease in mothering that took place post WWII. And you know this because you are omniscient? On what basis is your assertion to be received as authoritative?

IYO - should legislation be passed restricting the use of the $60 billion in taxpayer-provided relief monies for hurricane Katrina *only* to contractors, builders, craftsmen, corporations, etc. hiring *only* United States Citizens?

There is already over $100 billion set aside for reconstruction coming from insurance companies and the federal government.

(In other words - should *any* of the cash windfall from Katrina go to employers hiring illegal aliens on their construction crews?)

You are falsely concluding cause and effect. Ultimately, unemployment decreased despite WWII, not because of it.

How can you make that assertion? There was an obvious cause and effect relationship on the rate of unemployment from WWII. The rate went down from 14.6% in 1940 to 1.2% in 1944. How can anyone with a straight face state "unemployment decreased despite WWII, not because of it." Are you saying that if WWII had not occurred, the unemployment rate would have decreased even more? LOL

You are asserting that the moral decay of the '60s and '70s had nothing whatsoever to do with the major decrease in mothering that took place post WWII. And you know this because you are omniscient? On what basis is your assertion to be received as authoritative?

The same basis as your assertion on women joining the workforce after WWII that, "It was unarguably a bad thing for the children of the nation, however."

What does a decrease in mothering mean? Time or quality? What happened in the 60's and 70's had more to do with the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, not a lack of "mothering."

I don't know what you define as moral decay, but I don't share that assessment. Much of what occurred in the 60's had to do with idealism and a rejection of racial and other forms of discrimination, segregation, and war as an instrument of settling conflicts. Watergate helped undermine the confidence in government and our leaders.

I graduated high school in 1961. When did you graduate?