So you want to be ruled by the Robber Barons...
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why not?? when they ruled we had fastest growth in American History!! As I said, now that you have left Stone Throwing Brainwashing Liberal University your education can begin:
The Robber Barons: Republicans Greatest Shame!
From: The Myth of The Robber Barrons by Forest McDonald
Edward Collins $33,000 per Atlantic crossing (page 7)
Cornelius Vanderbilt (robber barron) $15,000 per Atlantic crossing
Collins $600 NY to California
Vanderbilt (robber barron) 150 NY to California( page 12)
"James J Hill cut freight costs from 90 cents to 44 cents a pound" (page 34) and still made a profit while the heavily subsidized Union Pacific and Central Pacific always lost money
"Coopers charged 2.50 per barrel Rockefeller cut his to $.96" (Page 86)
"From 1865 to 1870, the price of kerosene dropped from 58 to 26 cents per gallon,
Rockefeller made profits during everyone of these years" (page 87)
"Before 1870, only the rich could afford whale oil and candles, The rest had to go to bed to save money. By 1870 with the drop in the price of Kerosene, the middle and working class people all over the nation could afford the one cent an hour that it cost to light their homes at night".( page 87)
"When Andrew Carnegie entered steel production in 1872, England dominated world production and the price of steel production was $56 per ton. By 1900 Carnegie Steel was manufacturing steel for $11.00 per ton and out stripping the entire production of England!" (page 126)
