Are Some Haters Of Government Sensing The Looming Regeneracy?

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(03-17-2017, 02:15 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(03-16-2017, 11:44 PM)TKinser79 Wrote: If I may interject here in your lamenting.  Perhaps a fresh perspective is necessary, and I'm the guy to provide it.

(03-16-2017, 10:44 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:  I look at the ‘make America great again’ slogan, and note that the time of America’s greatness was the peak of the New Deal and Borrow and Spend liberalism.

Actually no.  While I have no personal experience with the Great Depression I garuntee you that it was not the peak of American Greatness.  As for the Borrow and Spend Liberalism of the Regan/Bush I and Bush II eras were not the peak of American greatness either.

I think he was referring to the post Depression/World War II era (FDR to Carter). Tax and Spend Liberalism that I think he was actually referring to ended with Reagan. I guess the government could no longer afford to absorb the losses that were carried forward from the Vietnam and Korean Wars, the losses associated with the the recession that followed Vietnam, all the costs associated with establishing and maintaining our new position as a world leader and the costs associated with all the new social programs that were added by LBJ's Great Society.

I believe that many are lamenting because the post WWII era you mention was a time of remarkable stability when, if you got a good job in a good company and did everything you were supposed to do, you could be set for life. My dad was the typical corporate lifer of that time. But, not only economically but also emotionally, we are at a different place now. While it is true that today's corporations don't want to invest in workers for many years, the workers themselves are constantly looking for that better mousetrap. In this case the current lack of security lies at the feet of both sides of the employer/employee equation. Yet in many ways the rules of the economy have not caught up with the reality of the present time frame. When the crisis is finally sorted out we need to ensure that the energy will be more hopeful, as we acknowledge any shortcomings, which may have impeded previous efforts towards progress.  Of course, I have often considered "progress" to be perhaps the most misued word in the English language. Is it really progress when we lose indpendently run businesses to the all-too powerful large corporations, as one example?