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By: Ron

I was around in the 1950′s and 60′s, and it wasn’t nearly as primitive as you people seem to think.

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By: Jerome Bigge

True. I remember voting for Nixon in 1960. Rent here locally was $40 a month and included heat and electricity. Drove a 1951 Chevy. Dollar’s worth of gasoline was a bit over three gallons. TV was...

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By: Jeannette

I should clarify; _I_ get peaches from gas station parking lots. I don’t speak fluent Alabaman so I’m not sure how far outside of town they came from though.

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By: jim karlock

Maybe the real question is, looking at history, which philosophy has produced the biggest increase in standard of living, for the lower tier, ten years forward? Thanks JK

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By: jim karlock

The housing affordability problem is mostly caused by city planners restricting the availability of land. see: americandreamcoalition.org/penalty.html Thanks JK

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By: RightThinking

Excellent video. Have you read any of Easterbrook’s books? Easterbrook points out that in 2000, for example, 13 percent of home purchases were of second homes; a century before, less than 1 percent...

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By: Shery

I just turned 64. As a child we lived in more then one place with an outhouse instead of indoor toilets. We pumped water and had a large black cookstove that also was the heat for a large two-story...

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By: GeorgeM

Poor in 2012 means you have to get spending money from foodstamps, earned income tax credit, city, state and county grants, Medicaid, and various other government programs. Poor people are rarely...

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By: Jefferson

How does this work… To get a job, I have to be drug tested. To get welfare, forcing me to get drug tested is an invasion of my privacy. To keep my job, I have to have a social security number, a...

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By: BeaM

Where did your grandparents live that they hadn’t central heating? And for that matter, I don’t now, the house I live in is all-electric. I’ll try not to rant–unfettered technology poisons us, as it is...

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