Originally Posted by Typhoonpilot
I'm with you prelude. All one has to do is look at the America of today versus the America of the 60s and 70s. I grew up in an America full of middle class suburbs and proud workers who generally had security and a good life. They weren't going to get rich, but who really cared as long as you enjoyed your life. Then CEOs only made 4 times the average employee's wages.
Fast forward to today and CEOs are making hundreds of times the average workers wages and no middle class worker, and especially no tradesman has much security working for a corporation. It's sad to see how greed and avarice have destroyed the American dream. Pilots, mechanics, flight attendants, gate agents ,etc are paying the price for this and have suffered a steadily declining lifestyle where they work harder and harder for less and less.
I far prefer Norman Rockwell's America to that of Carl Icahn, Frank Lorenzo, Stephen Wolf, etc.
Typhoonpilot
I remember listening my American Government prof tell us how interesting it was that people will paint a rosey picture of the way things were back in the 'good ol' days.' The point he made was that things wern't that much greater back then, just different. I obviously can't speak for everywhere, but middle class America is still alive and well throughout much of the nation.
I agree completely. Freedom From Want and Freedom From Fear...
Freedom from want and fear??? I was just a twinkle in my parents eye when the Cold War was going on, but my understanding was there were some pretty tense moments during those years. Our desires as humans are, and probably always will be insatiable. As much as I would like, I find it difficult to believe people have ever been free from fear and wants.