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Hey Warren
Families that had mom and dad, low divorce rate, kids could be kids, they could play outside, walk around and not worry about getting shot, no gangbangers, people had a work ethic and values and morals, no big drug problem, no terrorists after the US, everything was made in America, bought in America, no foreign trade, no real foreign policy, the US wasn't the world's police force, the US wasn't hated. Politicians actually listened to the people (at least for a little while longer), American education was at the top of the heap, The Dollar was very strong, was it better? you decide.
Whose to blame
The people running our cities were voted into office. If you keep voting them back into ofice, no matter what they do, then who is to blame? If the people running our cities don't act in our best interests and most people just sit and complain to themselves and the newspaper, whose to blame? If you hire a person to work for you and they don't do the job, and all you do is just sit and complain about it, whose to blame? Running the city is our business and we hired these people. If they do whatever they want to do, and don't listen to us, and we keep them on the payroll, whose to blame?
And that's the way it was
Yep, that’s the way it was. Pay was $1/hour, no health insurance, no 401(k), life expectancy was about 60, most people died before they retired, little or no welfare, no Affirmative Action, big war in Europe, few people had cars, no refrigerator, no air conditioning, no cell phone, no TV, few if any concerts, blue laws, no cure for polio, and that’s the way it was. Was it better? You decide.
Remembering the 40's
It also comes to mind that Norfolk, where I was born and raised, had a pretty darned good Light Rail system that worked well, cheap.
Then some hotshots thought that we absolutely had to have those stinking Busses or we would not be a modern City. (And of course, we just had to have a modern skyline.)
Now they want to spend lots of taxpayer money on a nitwit route that will only be a ride to the Beach!
How sad that we have dunces running our
Cities!
Ahh Yes!!
South of the border in N.C. in the late 1940's:
Dad would give me a quarter on Saturday:
It cost me a dime to get in the movie and I had fifteen cents left.
I could buy a coke for 5 cents and had ten cents left.
I could buy a box of popcorn for 5 cents and had a nickel left.
I could then spend the last 5 cents for a Baby Ruth or Butterfinger.
Gasoline then was about 17 cents a gal.for regular.
Kerosene cost even less, about 5 cents a gallon.
Loaf of bread was a nickel.
Haircut cost a dollar.
Could buy nice cheap made in Japan toy in Rose's Dimestore for 50 cents.
Hotdog cost about the same as writer stated and hamburger a nickel more.
Could go on but will stop. Doesn't seem that long ago and dollar buys
nothing anymore.