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To: ProtectOurFreedom; All

” I feel sorry for her, but there’s a bell curve distribution for success in life and earnings. Sounds like Cathy is at the left end of the bell curve.

Not everybody gets to grab the brass ring in life.”


The problem with this thinking is the idea that today one can’t even aspire to the middle class life of the the 1950’s or 1960’s blue collar guy - unless you are “above average” for White collar advanced degree.

Approx 12 percent of the. population of the USA has advanced degrees. And you are saying only the top half of them get as good or better than the blue collar guy of the 1950’s ?

What kind of “conservatism” do you think you are going to get with 90+ percent of the population facing less than that.

Who is going to be invested in “conserving” a system like that ?


72 posted on 05/09/2024 10:21:55 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Reverend Wright

The 1950s in the USA was boom time because the rest of the world was eith
1. Recovering from wartime devastation
2. Post colonial
3. Under communism

That changed in the mid 60s and 70s when western Europe and Japan caught up. The rest of the world caught up in the 90s.

The halcyon days of 50s aren’t coming back


83 posted on 05/10/2024 12:11:32 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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