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Our standard of living is much higher now than it was in 1962.

From a kids perspective, Mom was usually home when we got home from school, we could go anywhere in town just so long as we were home for dinner, when we got sick the doctor would stop by and give us a shot of penicillin, we could entertain ourselves without needing batteries or electric power by using cardboard boxes, sticks, scrap wood, shovels, hammers,etc, we could go to the movies and get candy all day for less than 1 dollar, drive in movies. As a kid I had much more freedom than my kids ever did.

“Our standard of living is much higher now than it was in 1962.”
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That is quite subjective.
How is the standard of living much higher? From what I see, it is worse.
Is it because you now have cable TV and Internet, or a better car?

I can assure you, public education was far superior then
it is today.
The media was more balanced then it is today.
We did not have an illegal Communist for POTUS.
Premarital sex and homosexuality was in the closet.
Drugs were limited to a small outcast segment of society.
One would never see an illegal immigrant.

I am, of course, speaking only for myself.
If the American culture was as it was in 1980, I would not mind still living there.

Our standard of living is much higher now than it was in 1962. How exactly has the country been in decline?

Because back then people earned their standard of living. Now the gummint gives it to half of them every month. A family on perpetual welfare today has a higher standard of living than our family did in 1962. We had BW TV, one radio, one phone, a record player, no AC. We just got our first car in 1960.

And now people demand it and we hand it to them out of our own pockets.

It's an attitude decline, not a material decline.

Our standard of living is much higher now than it was in 1962.

I'm not sure that our standard of living is higher now than it was in '62. We have more "stuff" but there is also a decrease in quality of life - working moms, daycare, fast meals.

How exactly has the country been in decline?

If you have to ask that question it shows that you know very little of what life was like in the US in '62.

Our standard of living is much higher now than it was in 1962.

So you don't lock your doors when you leave home?

In '62 I was fresh out of college, living in Houston, everybody was excited about NASA and the Astronauts coming to town, and we could drive all over town at midnight without being afraid of breaking down on the freeway. Life was good...and fun. I knew my neighbors by name.

I would go back in a minute without hesitation!

You don't miss what you never had. People actually TALKED to each other without texting!

I don't think our lives are better. Just more things!

AlexW SAID: I was 18 then, and the country was one hell of a lot better then it is today. It has been in a steady decline ever since.
moonshot925 SAID: Our standard of living is much higher now than it was in 1962.

How exactly has the country been in decline?

Were you even alive in 1962, moonshot925? Maybe some half assed statistics say that the standard of living is higher but they lie. I was there, I know. Have you even been aware of the state of the economy lately?

Besides, income does not necessarily determine "the standard of living". We had more freedom then, lots more. Husbands worked, wives stayed home and took care of the children, with only one person working in the family it was possible to buy a house, two cars and such comforts as TVs and radios. Today, even with both spouses working(in Bozoville however they are lucky to have even one working)most couples barely make it, anyone who says the standard of living, which is a poor way to determine how things are, is higher today, is full of sh**.

In 1962 I could buy a gun through the mail, walk down the street carrying one or have one or two strapped to me and no one would stop me or question me. I could ride in the back of a pick up without getting a ticket, I could cut the trees on my property without having to get a permit. I could go on and on about the freedoms we had then and don't have now but why bother? You are obviously an idiot or a troll.

I was 18 then, and the country was one hell of a lot better then it is today. It has been in a steady decline ever since.

Our standard of living is much higher now than it was in 1962.

How exactly has the country been in decline?

When did your spaceship arrive from Mars?