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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I half-jokingly say that America Was Great Before between about 1952 - 1955. Everything before that was mythical, and everything started falling apart after that.

But, really, I think a lot of economic graphs show you that worker income became detached from the gains of the economy pretty much once the Reagan Revolution hit the country in 1980.

Full disclosure - I loved Reagan as a kid and volunteered with the Bush/Quayle campaign when I was old enough to vote - so, I wasn't reflexively anti-Reagan, but upon reflection, [b]I think the conservative movement had a negative impact on the median worker.[/b]

Also, comparing the ability of a person to buy and maintain property in an area that subsequently experienced an economic boom isn't really apples-to-apples. The counterexample would be being able to buy certain property in Detroit more cheaply now than you could in the past -- you just wouldn't want to. [/quote]
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another former R, Bush voter, Reagan supporter, whose parents worked blue collar jobs.[/quote]

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