[Gay State Conservative]

Who did not know these things? He’s essentially being Captain Obvious.........................

Well,you're surely superior to me because,apart from knowing that *my* family from earlier generations lived *very* difficult lives both in Europe and upon arrival here in the US,it never occurred to me to ponder how the lives of today's middle class compared to the lives of the rich of 100 years ago.

[Red Badger]

There have been many articles and even books (See The Good Old Days, They Were Terrible, 1974) written on this same subject. George Will must be either going senile or has run out of things to write about, rehashing old subject matter.

Were the Good Old Days That Good? NYT 2005,

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/business/yourmoney/were-the-good-old-days-that-good.html?_r=0