The November elections are over and the Republicans and Tea Party activists have by and large won.
So let's give them what they want. Let's turn the clock back to, say, the 1920s, when money flowed like wine.
Ah, the good old days, with flappers and parties all the time. You remember those times, right? Those great times before medicare, medicaid, social security, or interstates? Let's not forget the 60 hour work weeks with no vacation time or pensions, no child labor laws to speak of and absolutely no health protections of any kind and you were as likely to find rat carcasses in your sausage as pork. Health care was for the rich and education beyond grade school was for the well off. We paid a pittance for the military and nobody thought twice about beating up a black for daring to want to eat with whites, much less having the audacity to want to vote. Women were second class citizens, but at least they had it better than blacks.We had a comparatively small national debt, but corporations actually paid taxes. The maximum tax rate was lower than it is now. It was only 25% for much of the 20s.
Course, everything went completely to hell at the end of the decade, but wasn't it fun before that?
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