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In reply to the discussion: The 1950's were not all that great and they are not coming back [View all]Edit history
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I think large investments in transportation, energy and communications infrastructure
tk2kewl
Jun 2016
#81
Not to mention 1950's diseases like polio, measles, etc. Childhood leukemia was a death sentence.
SharonAnn
Jun 2016
#95
It's not The Bomb and White Citizens Councils that people miss. It's stable jobs with pensions
leveymg
Jun 2016
#8
Did you read his post? We recognize that the jobs are gone. That doesn't mean we can't
rhett o rick
Jun 2016
#14
Again what the hell are you talking about and to whom? this addressed to the Trumps
Peacetrain
Jun 2016
#18
Yes. But, the "'50s type job" (full benefits) and a generous social net is still worth fighting for
leveymg
Jun 2016
#16
How so? Scotland and the Northern Ireland stand to gain by keeping EU membership, even if they have
leveymg
Jun 2016
#20
Did you even reread your own post?..Scotland and Northern Ireland are just as impacted by income
pkdu
Jun 2016
#22
The regions of the English Midlands and South are the one that lost industry and jobs.
leveymg
Jun 2016
#60
The '50s were great if you were white and male. POCs and women need not apply back then though.
brush
Jun 2016
#33
Did your grandmothers not want their own careers? How about you? You want to be a housewife?
brush
Jun 2016
#46
Did you ever ask them if they wanted a careeer, instead of assuming, as men often do, . . .
brush
Jun 2016
#64
Cher couldn't do it, and neither can you or anyone else. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be...
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#70
It took a world war and tens of millions of deaths to make it possible for us
AZ Progressive
Jun 2016
#58
40% of the workforce, in the private sector, was unionized. One unionized job could support a family
demosincebirth
Jun 2016
#59
Change may not be intrinsically "good" (a value judgment), but it IS inevitable and inexorable.
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#71
It is neither good nor bad, it just IS, as the ruling principle of the universe.
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#78
Yes, I suppose it's far easier to just wash our hands of the whole upcoming mess . . .
HughBeaumont
Jun 2016
#83
And, THIS IS REALITY. Too many people refuse to look it in the face and deal with it.
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#66