I found a picture of an average male in the 1950s

36/2400 Hillary supporter.

Trumped you wrote:

420 ... Mile? wrote:

Dumb? I think not. Did you miss the part about all measurable intelligence statistics? I am smart. I like bernie. This clearly shows that smart people like bernie and everyone else likes Trump/Hillary

I got a 35/2300 and I support Cruz. Quit making false assumptions.

Cruz?!?! Lol. I thought we were talking about people who are still running. Bernie, Hillary, Trump. I actually support Kucinich, but that is not relevant. Similarly, your Cruz support means nothing. The republicans have already spoken and Trunp is their man. Says a lot about the party.

Kucinich?

jamin wrote:

Here he is, with a hot wife

Dude, I hate to break it to you, but going back in time wouldn't make you any better with women. You'd have that nice, affordable four bedroom house all to yourself.

Who?? wrote:

Kucinich?

Exactly. He is a retired liberal congressman who is as relevant to the current election as Cruz (or any other politician outside of Bernie/Trump/Clinton for that matter). I.e. Not relevant at all

jamin wrote:

Here he is, with a hot wife, after buying a 4-bedroom home that he'll be able to pay off in 2 years, in a safe neighborhood:

http://ssl.marketplace.org/sites/default/files/field_images/2013/08/Art05.jpg

The only kind of hot wife in 2016 is a Hotwife.

People forget that A) we were incredibly dominant at the time because the rest of the industrial world was destroyed and huge swathes of its workforce dead, B) there was a constant, real threat of nuclear annihilation, C) 1.5 million men got drafted into war in Korea.

So when you say you want to return to the '50s, that was a different world, and it wasn't all that great, anyway.

jamin wrote:

Here he is, with a hot wife, after buying a 4-bedroom home that he'll be able to pay off in 2 years, in a safe neighborhood:

http://ssl.marketplace.org/sites/default/files/field_images/2013/08/Art05.jpg

Back when women and minorities were still fighting for basic rights... About the only chance Jamin had... If only 🤔

its2016 wrote:

Yeah if you are a white guy but i guess theyre the only ones that qualify as people to you...

Well, even though discrimination against blacks in the USA has lessened, the black family has declined. In the early 1960s, the out-of-wedlock birth rate among blacks was about 20% (when direct abortion was illegal) versus over 60% today (when direct abortion is legal).

Trumped you wrote:

420 ... Mile? wrote:

Dumb? I think not. Did you miss the part about all measurable intelligence statistics? I am smart. I like bernie. This clearly shows that smart people like bernie and everyone else likes Trump/Hillary

I got a 35/2300 and I support Cruz. Quit making false assumptions.

Had Rubio and Cruz not split so many votes, Cruz might be ahead of Trump now.

My wife is hotter and my house is bigger.

Plus I have Internet.

You can keep your 1950s fantasy.

Unmarried births and birth rates have declined, especially among blacks, in recent years.

Odds would be pretty good that the guy in the picture was either in a union or benefitted from the GI bill either by having college paid for or getting help buying a home or both. The above post about the peace dividend is also important. The US was also very protectionist when it came to trade in the 50s.

There were no rules against bullying in the 1950s. You would have gotten beat up every single day of your life from age 7 to 17, Jamin.

The chick looked like an airline stewardess who just got off the plane.

420 ... Mile? wrote:

jamin wrote:

Here he is, with a hot wife, after buying a 4-bedroom home that he'll be able to pay off in 2 years, in a safe neighborhood:

http://ssl.marketplace.org/sites/default/files/field_images/2013/08/Art05.jpg

Wow, Jamin. Very liberal sounding post here lamenting over evil, capitalist money lenders. Good for you, buddy.

He's slowly but surely picking up the Seattle bern.

420 ... Mile? wrote:

Context for those who failed history: uber liberal FDR passed something called "The New Deal" which resulted in economic boom times. Now, Bernie Sanders is proposing similar measures Jamin is longing for "New Deal" type results. I feel like a proud dad.

Are you high? FDR's new deal prolonged the Great Depression enormously and established many of the programs that have sunk our country deep into debt while providing minimal ROI. Our economic boom coincided with the end of WWII and a surge of workers in the labor force as women entered the labor market, a baby boom which increased demand for all sorts of products to a massive degree, a need to repair and rebuild the still-reeling European countries (who needed our manufactured goods), and the list goes on and on. Post-WWII America was a perfect storm of economic conditions that had nothing to do with the political parties in power at the time.

When you get water from the tap or electricity from the wall outlet, you might very well be relying on FDR's projects. The nation's postwar boom actually began during World War II, because of the massive ramping up in federal employment and spending, which created a tremendous manufacturing base as well and within a few years growth overtook the federal deficit. Top tax rates in the 1950s under Eisenhower were over 90%. Unionization rates were extremely high. The GI Bill created a highly educated workforce. The Interstate Highway System created millions of jobs and served as the basis, for good and ill, of the future economy of the United States. Public colleges and universities were free of tuition for in-state students (this did not change until the late 1960s; in August, 1967 (I was looking for an account of Ryun's Dusseldorf race), Ronald Reagan proposed having tuition ($250) for in-state students at U.C. Berkeley for the first time in its 100 years. American high schools were starting to become the envy of the world and by the early 1960s, SAT's would be the highest in American history to the present and our science and technology people were making radical advances in every field. Regulation was still heavy from WWII and the Depression. And inequality was very low because of unionization, good jobs, low foreign competition, and a low multiplier from average worker pay to CEO pay.

Same house 2015:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXRviuL6vMY