1946 to 1962 were the best years that ever were or ever will be

[Unkotare]

I was born in 1962.
I see nothing good about that year~

Well, that was cheerful!

 

[American Horse]

No, no, no, no, no..................that leaves out what happened in 1964 on the Ed Sullivan show.

Drug use during those years was virtually non-existent.

That is not correct.

The WWs produced addicts of morphine, opium, and heroin in the veteran population. Alcohol in various forms was pretty bad and equal to any drug. I remember as a boy finding drunks sleeping in the scrap and tin "cabins" I'd built down where the "tracks" and the creek ran close by. This was about 49-50.

 

[MikeK]

Polio, Korea, McCarthy, the bomb, then the H BOMB! Apartheid, unsafe motor vehicles, unsafe cigarette ads, leaded gasoline and other uncontrolled pollution....

Ah, the good ole days!

Not to mention the near 90% tax brackets.

Only for the super-rich. We need the same progressive tax structure today to make up for the past three decades

 

[Dabs]

I was born in 1962.
I see nothing good about that year~

Well, that was cheerful!

Ah Unk...you should know me by now...I speak what I want....and what I mean.

 

[bobcollum]

no cellphones for one.

no drug use

just goodness - except for civil rights butt hose were being addressed.

I love how the older folks reminisce about the old days like they aren't responsible for why it isn't good anymore.

Thanks baby-boomers!

 

[American Horse]

Bob, just look at how hard it is to buck the tide right now. As a personal position, I voted Goldwater in 1964, and was so opposed to medicare and the Great Society programs of Johnson I considered moving to Australia.

 

[bobcollum]

Bob, just look at how hard it is to buck the tide right now. As a personal position, I voted Goldwater in 1964, and was so opposed to medicare and the Great Society programs of Johnson I considered moving to Australia.

I have no problem with most of the social programs in place. A country this large benefits greatly from them and allows the US to maintain a first-world status.

We could afford these things if we were more responsible/less wasteful with the things that aren't as necessary.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

1946 to 1962 were the best years that ever were or ever will be

The OP makes the same mistake as most reactionaries: he fails to take into account advancements in technology, the media, and mass communication; there was as much drug abuse, child abuse, crime, and general human rottenness in the 50s as today, one simply didn’t hear about it then.

 

[ginscpy]

you didnt have to have hassle caps "for your protection" to pry off with a srewdriver on over-the-counter bottles of aspirin during the1950s.................

or seals over fucking Chapstick

 

[Unkotare]

you didnt have to have hassle caps "for your protection" to pry off with a srewdriver on over-the-counter bottles of aspirin during the1950s.................

or seals over fucking Chapstick

So your bitterness stems from your inability to open containers? Sad old fool.

 

[ginscpy]

I dont like havingt o fuck with opening fucking chapsticks...........................................

 

[Unkotare]

Don't get pissed at the world because you got old, shakey.

 

[ginscpy]

I hada 28 inch waist - hollywood good looks when I was 19 - no brag -fact....................................

 

[Mad Scientist]

no cellphones for one.

no drug use

just goodness - except for civil rights butt hose were being addressed.

No Drug Use!

 

[High_Gravity]

fora ll practicall purposes drug use in the 50s was non-existent

That is not correct.

It is correct - drug use in the50s was virtually non-existent.

No, it wasn't.

 

[Douger]

no cellphones for one.

no drug use

just goodness - except for civil rights butt hose were being addressed.

Define "drug".

 

[Unkotare]

I hada 28 inch waist - hollywood good looks when I was 19 - no brag -fact....................................

Yeah, they made some good horror movies back then.

 

[Truthmatters]

the op doesnt seem to know that alcohol is a drug