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

lovethe80s wrote:

I always complained about my health care insurance until my wife decided to become a doctor. I'm a smart guy, but apparently not that smart. The amount of information that Doctors and PA's have to know is unreal. Not to mention that they have to diagnose health issues correctly, all while sifting through all the other health issues of the very same patient, making sure meds don't get mixed up, proper dosages of meds, not to mention a total and complete knowledge of every part of your body and it's function, as to make the patient better. Oh and the $300K.

They certainly have the right to charge what they do.

Yep. I have had 6 surgeries in my life, 4 of which came when I was an adult and I paid for, we've had two children (so hospital visit for my wife both times), both kids have had surgeries of their own, and illnesses of their own. We visit the dentist and eye doctor regularly and physicals each year. The amount of doctor care we have had already before my wife and I are even 50 is amazing, and neither of us has any ongoing medical issue (no diabetes, heart disease, nothing like that at all). We have decent medical insurance, but it's not of the "pay a ton monthly to get lower costs later" variety, and yet any medical bill we have had has been reasonable and manageable.

My father has survived two cancer issues, one of which was life-threatening and where he became the first person on record to have that particular rare cancer put into remission, and he is now still cancer free more than 10 years later. And even for him, the extensive treatment ended up not costing him that much. He had insurance of course.

Friend of mine had to have open-heart surgery to fix a congenital issue, and his out-of pocket expense was minimal as were the heart specialist he had to visit once a year since it was discovered when he was 10.

Anyway, doctors are the next big group that will be vilified (it has already started). Cost too much, don't know what I found on the internet, takes a long time to discover problem, etc. All BS. Just as we have finally started to make future teachers look elsewhere, future doctors (and current ones) will too.

Ike at the mike wrote:

"the government cannot create anything in the real economy"

Tell that to the military industrial complex.

Let me rephrase it: the government cannot create anything without stealing from the real economy.

Flagpole wrote:

Racism was at a much worse level than today as lynching were not uncommon..

Lynchings were very rare.

Between 1882 and 1968 4743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Of these people that were lynched 3,446 were black. The blacks lynched accounted for 72.7% of the people lynched.

From 1980 to 2005 10,000 blacks were killed by other blacks in Los Angeles alone. Nationally, during the same period, approximately 200,000 blacks were murdered, 94% of them (188,000) by black assailants.

From 2003 through 2011 in Detroit, 3,313 lives were lost to homicides in Detroit. Add on another 386 homicides in 2012, and in a 10-year time period, there were 3699 homicides victims in the ‘Paris of the West’. In 10 short years, an 83 percent black city saw 3,699 lives end in violence; as the Detroit Free Press notes, “A majority of homicide victims in Detroit are African American (87.9%). Detroit's population is 83% African American.

The biggest threat in black America today is cultural fratricide, an entire generation being depicted as pimps and hos, crooks and dope dealers, minstrels and buffoons, by whom? Not white America. The new masters are BET, Ebony, Hollywood and the music industry who have been exploiting the ni99er stereotype for billions of dollars.

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

Hi jamin, as we discussed at length the other night, the 50s was a terrific decade in many ways but not without it's flaws. For one thing, people and especially women were terribly repressed sexua$ly. I didn't actually lose my V until my mid 20s but there was lots of Tom foolery in the changing rooms if you catch my drift.

Yes, today's world is tough and uncertain but there are great things too of course such as increased se#ual awareness and a treatment for ED.

As I told you the other night jamin, you have to be true to you. No more guilt and repression. Look what that did to this old fool.

Your friend always,

Precious Roy.

You make the mistake that too many others do when trying to make a point. Just because something else is as bad or worse than the topic at hand does NOT mean that the topic at hand isn't also bad.

So, try better next time.

Yes, Flagpole, lynchings were despicable.

The Democrat Party fought against anti lynching legislation for decades. It was their own people doing the lynching, many times using the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party - the Ku Klux Klan.

The Democrat Party enthusiastically passed Jim Crow laws to suppress blacks in many spheres of life. Although lynching had become rare by the 50's, Democrats like Bull Connor, a member of both the Democrat National Committee and the KKK, attempted to beat back any attempt to loosen the racist Democrat hold on the South.

"Progressive" icons like Woodrow Wilson and FDR were adamant in enforcing (and instituting) segregation in the federal government.

One of the best changes since the 1950's is the Democrat Party's rejection of its widespread racist, segregationist past. Now they just stoke racial animosity to keep their black voting base motivated. As bad as it is, it's still an improvement.