|
|
We appreciate your help
in keeping this site going.
|
|
06-08-2012, 06:57 AM
|
|
Resident octogenarian
|
|
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Maryland
Posts: 20,860
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by BlueStreak
And just to beat Pete to the punch;
WW2 had something to do with that.
Dave
|
And the GI Bill had a hell of a lot to do with giving us the technology lead.
__________________
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
|
06-08-2012, 08:18 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Derby City U.S.A.
Posts: 8,210
|
|
Grover Norquist let's not forget this mental midget, who would not allow for the stimulus spending required during WWII. Just cut the governments revenue, starve it and shrink it down...
Half the nation would be speaking German or Japanese today.
Barney
|
06-08-2012, 08:49 AM
|
|
Admin
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Behind the Orange Curtain in California
Posts: 37,222
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Oerets
Grover Norquist let's not forget this mental midget, who would not allow for the stimulus spending required during WWII. Just cut the governments revenue, starve it and shrink it down...Barney
|
Like what happened after the war to end all wars? After a decade of boozing and hyper inflation due to Wall street buggering any and everyone, we got the Thirties....
__________________
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
- Mr. Underhill
|
06-08-2012, 06:46 PM
|
|
AKA Sister Mary JJ
|
|
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Upper East Tennessee
Posts: 5,897
|
|
Don!!! Where are you?
__________________
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." (Mark Twain)
|
06-08-2012, 10:39 PM
|
|
Loyal Opposition
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Johnson County, Kansas
Posts: 14,401
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by JJIII
Don!!! Where are you?
|
Hey, I have a life. Our son picked out a pretty good Italian Restaurant in Lawrence for his birthday meal. The Chicken Marsala was very rich.
Regards,
D-Ray
__________________
Then I'll get on my knees and pray,
We won't get fooled again; Don't get fooled again
|
06-09-2012, 08:02 AM
|
|
AKA Sister Mary JJ
|
|
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Upper East Tennessee
Posts: 5,897
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by d-ray657
Hey, I have a life. Our son picked out a pretty good Italian Restaurant in Lawrence for his birthday meal. The Chicken Marsala was very rich.
Regards,
D-Ray
|
Sounds like a nice evening. We do appreciate the things you do for the site.
__________________
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." (Mark Twain)
|
06-09-2012, 08:07 AM
|
|
Area Man
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: The Swamp
Posts: 27,407
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by bobabode
Like what happened after the war to end all wars? After a decade of boozing and hyper inflation due to Wall street buggering any and everyone, we got the Thirties....
|
Ahhhh, the 1920s.................
Is it just me, or is every period of freewheeling, lassez faire capitalism follwed by a disasterous collapse?
__________________
"When the lie is so big and the fog so thick, the Republican trick can play out again....."-------Frank Zappa
|
06-09-2012, 09:46 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Sonoma County, CA
Posts: 20,496
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by BlueStreak
Ahhhh, the 1920s.................
Is it just me, or is every period of freewheeling, lassez faire capitalism follwed by a disasterous collapse?
|
It's not just you.
John
|
06-11-2012, 09:18 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: San Diego via Vermilion Ohio and Points Between
Posts: 11,538
|
|
As Finnbow said the 1950s were a very mixed bag...African Americans in the South could not vote and still faced the aparthied of separate (and certainly not equal) accomodations and schools. Plessy vs.Ferguson was still in effect. I think Citizens United will probably be mentioned as perhaps the second worse decision of the Court behind Plessy vs Ferguson.
Interestingly enough LBJ as the Senate Majority leader and Eisenhower were able to work together to get Civil Rights Act of 1957 passed. Not as stong as LBJ's later Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s it did recognize the need to ensure voting rights in the South.
Too bad both Parties cannot work together today like Ike and LBJ could sometimes.
__________________
Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.
|
06-11-2012, 09:27 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Sonoma County, CA
Posts: 20,496
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by icenine
Too bad both Parties cannot work together today like Ike and LBJ could sometimes.
|
Or Reagan and Tip O'Niell. Seems to be a pattern, Democratic legislatures working with Republican executives for the good of the country. Doesn't work the other way, though.
John
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 08:55 PM.
|