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Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 days agoAmerica wasn’t great, it was just a lot cheaper to live in.
The economy tanked when Nixon kept paying for the Vietnam War by printing money without raising taxes. That and the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973 crashed the American Dream. Jimmy Carter hired Paul Volker to fix things. Jimmy got kicked out before the plan started kicking in and Reagan got the credit. Then Ronnie turned the money spigot on extra high for the rich and that’s how it all went to hell.
fieryhamster007@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I lived through it. I would much rather that era than the antiChrist led one of today.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 days ago
smithsonianmag.com/…/hard-hat-riot-1970-pitted-co…
Remember the Hard Hat Riot of 1970?
That’s another piece of history we’ll soon relive.