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A_MinionThere is no reason in hell for that. In the 60's I made a minimum wage of $1.25hr. It was a living wage. I went to collage $5.00 for a student body card & books. I worked, went to school & had enough for a beer after. The great majority had enough to live on, & as AOC says should be able to go on vacation. That economy needed to be for all but as we see today the artificial barriers. Business made money, people made money, it promoted small business. Most everyone was getting a share.
What we had was called the "Liberal Consensus". When congress worked for most all people. What AOC & Mandami , Biden/Harris are all trying to give us. Are we going to blow it off again?
This is not simply MAGA, it is what the GOP has been working toward since the 50's. Any Support for the Right will keep this bullshit that we have. I've watch it from the beginning. Absolute Control has been the GOP's agenda all along it why they aren't fighting for Us the People.
The Right is right because their Right. Only they are right, even tho if you examine how the people were treated under a far more Liberal administration we were the most creative & productive of any nation in the world. There were things wrong we were fighting to change those. Till Tricky Dicky got elected, using Fear the same as Reagan the same as Trump. Now we really do have something to fear.
Peace! No matter what it takes.
NoaNope.Between WWII & 70's congress was in fact working for "we the people". That time is when most of what you see around you was created. We had the best public school in the world, a route to college that was affordable, the entirety of the Hwy system. I remember I5/99 as a 2 lane road. Airports. Minimum wage was $1.25hr a living wage. All done under what was called the "Liberal Consensus". We worked to get it for all people, abortion, women & minority rights, then came the GOP.
Was it great, no. We could buy a house, go to college, vacation, & much of what you are yelling for. Did it need improvement, damned straight. We could even afford medical care. I keep saying this for no other reason but so folks like you can understand what we had & what we should have now. Some of our Republicans were more liberal than many liberals of today. I watched it all happen, There is no F-ing reason you shouldn't/couldn't have the same today & more.
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@A_Minion @redsad you're talking about what you had access to as though everyone else did too. Women, native Americans, & Black people couldn't even vote during most of the period you're talking about, & were denied access elsewhere too (from credit cards & loans to public & private spaces).
Yes things improved, but it's not like Congress was willingly doing so. People had to fight & die for those improvements you're uncritically crediting Congress for.
And Those battles were being fought. If you notice I'm not advocating for all of then. Yes people had to fight for a number of those things. But we were in the process. I'm well aware of what wrongs. If you compare those wrongs to those from WWII back . . Civil Rights, do you know about the sitin's, Rosa Parks, MLK, Malcolm X. How do you think women's right to abortion came about. Under God & In God We Trust were added in the '56.
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Christians abounded and fought for many things that just didn't fit into a new era.
I can probably tell you far more about the bad, then you can imagine, that women needed to be spanked just like children, women were too flighty to handle any money. spare the stick, spoil the child. Up until fairly recently (stonewall riot) LBGQ was totally illegal, under Reagan Aids was the gay disease & didn't need to stop or be researched. The race situation takes far far more than 500chars.
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John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺There's a very simple reason: The Revenue Act of 1964 lowered the highest nominal income tax rates, which shifted the tax burden to the working class and enabled those with the highest incomes to hoard more of it. That caused the average annual rate of inflation to go up like a hockey stick and remain around 4% since then.
That $1.25/hour minimum wage would be worth $13.15 in today's money, but the national minimum wage is hardly more than half that.
Workers have been getting squeezed.
There is no economic reason that we can't have all that we had before. IIRC that was started by JFK.
We were no longer in a war at that time tho that was changed fairly quickly, the buildup in Vietnam was 65.
The real end to that whole economy started with Nixon. He married the GOP to Fundies & HardHats. They went after education with 10biggies in school & becoming members of school boards everywhere, but the time Reagan showed up to complete the task we were screwed.
BTW when that was lowered it was brought to 40% as an average.
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Magnus Ahltorp@redsad worker: goes on strike
businesses: ok, here's your money
businesses: ok, here's your money
@as a renter myself, landlords know full well what the rental rates are in the city or town you live in, so they are almost all in agreement to raise the rent annually these days. Where I live is a very old apt building and since moving here in mid May 2022, it has gone up from $850/mo to next month, $1095/mo. Not happy, but they know it is tough to move.....
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@redsad "listen here you little shit" is so accurate and realistic.