[river rat]

We may be financially richer today, but I'm convinced we had a better class of human as citizens and neighbors.......excluding the Hippy leftists as usual.

Semper Fi

[Red Badger]

Roger That,RR! Ever since Johnson's Great Society, we've gone downhill, morally and spiritually.......

[micho]

just goes to show you that having material wealth does NOT make you happy. When are we ever going to learn that?

[Gay State Conservative]

We may be financially richer today, but I'm convinced we had a better class of human as citizens and neighbors.......excluding the Hippy leftists as usual.

Agree 1000%.In '67 the typical middle class household was very comfortable and the "median" level of decency and selflessness was much higher....hippies excluded,of course.

[ichabod1]

What you say. Being better off is about more than money.

[hinckley buzzard]

We may be financially richer today, but I'm convinced we had a better class of human as citizens and neighbors

My car today is ten times the car my parents drove in the fifties. But they could and did routinely leave their car in a parking lot with the window down and the keys in the ignition, and never gave theft a second thought. I don't do that and would be a blamed fool if I tried. And that's why we look back at "the good old days."

I was raised totally middle diddle class, and went to a thoroughly ordinary public highschool, where no one- and I mean no one- had ever smoked weed--it was a peculiar drug we learned about in senior health class. And that's why we call them "the good old days."

My graduating class (1964--welcome to the baby boom) lost one kid to pregnancy--and quiet disgrace throughout the community. Most of them went through school with me from kindergarten on up, and everyone spoke English without an accent. And that's why we call them the Good Old Days.

When my brother died in an auto accident in 1965, a Black kid who had been in his class and a teammate on the football and wrestling teams was one of our pall bearers-- and no one ever thought about it for even a second. But that was before race pimps inflamed the body politic--and that's why we call them the Good Old Days.

[cherry]

finacially....sure, our house values are up I suppose, but one doesn't realize that until you sell your house, and you know, you got to live somewhere.....

a few bucks put away?..sure.....

but we will have NO retirement medical benefits and the only pension we will get is from the Pension Guarentee Board.......

thanks to greedy and immoral corportate raiders.....

so all in all, I would agree that life in the 50's and 60's was easier, and the money went farther, and you could actually trust your company not to screw you ......