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Trump is wrong to want lower interest rates. It would just create another bubble that bursts. 4.5% isn’t high.
I agree that it would create more bubbles, but I think it might actually be good to create some domestic micro-bubbles. At least people will get out of it with useful skills and maybe some equipment lying around. We used to use these tricks to sustain useless business that did nothing.
 
Your analysis is otherwise pretty good, but draftees during Vietnam were mostly boomers.

The draft has a maximum age limit and skews younger even within its age range. 19 and 20 year olds were drafted at much higher rates.

There's an important difference between whether or not the median boomer went, and whether or not the median draftee was a boomer.

What I can find online is that the average conscript age was 20 by 1966. So that is right on the Boomer/Silent line. So yes, the average conscript when all those movies were made would have been an early Boomer born in the late 1940s.

But also, from my experience (I know, anecdotes aren't data), my late-40s-born family are quite a bit different from my 50s-born family. On top of that, the ones who did go to Vietnam are old guys with piles of guns and Make America Great Again + POW/MIA flags in their yards, not hippies.

Most pathological behavior people associate with Boomers IMO tends to be that 50s-born cohort that never really knew any hardship at all. If you were 20 in 1967, you were old enough to experience the 1970s as a really, reallly shitty decade, while if you didn't turn 20 until 1975, the shittiness of the late 70s didn't affect you much, since you don't really get going until the 80s, and things are a lot better. It's like how Millennials born in the 1980s experienced the Bush years very differently from Millennials born in the 1990s.
 
i could be wrong on some of this, its not really my area and again im not from the US. but if youre looking for when things started getting worse for the american middle class and working class, this era keeps coming up. seems like a lot of decisions made back then had long term consequences that are still felt today
I can explain in a philosophical way where things went off the rails. We started allowing financial fraud to go unchecked. Anti-trust and general financial fraud laws stopped being enforced at some point in the past 20-30 years and that's when the wheels really fell off. Ethics went right out the window. Why play by the rules when the rules no longer matter? We went from the American ideal of acting in the sense of right and wrong and shifted into what can I get away with mode. Get rich or die tryin'. Crony capitalism is the biggest threat to capitalism.

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Benjamin Franklin
 
there was also a big push for deregulation. they removed a lot of rules from industries
You basically only looked at liberal and normalfag sources. We have more regulations now than ever. Euros argue it’s not enough because they live in overregulated hellscapes and view anything less as anarchy. Monopolization happened in part of more regulations, since the regulations that exist in the US can only be shored by major corporations.
The big change happened at the end of the 60s, with the US changing immigration laws to make it easier for non-euros to immigrate. That lead to people rushing into the country legally and illegally. You also had women entering in the work force far more. Both of which inflated the labor pool and kept wages stagnate. The big thing Reagan did here was nationalize a shitload of illegals. Our work pool being ever expanding is literally why we never recovered from ‘08. You can even see similar stagnation that happened when we had an explosion of immigration from Europe. It’s literally the reason why wages suck and necessities like housing are expensive. We can’t afford more assistance to the average American because all of our social programs only go to retarded brown people we import.(social programs we have more than ever mind you) Liberals play pretend that this isn’t an issue, and was all caused by Reagan in the ‘80s because their plan was to make the retarded brown people their voter base.
 
i generally stay out of politics stuff since it doesnt concern my country afaik. im also not a US citizen. due to the re-election of trump i did some research about the history of the US and when it all went downhill. now im not saying that is exactly this, but i think most people agree something bad happened in the 70s or 80s. after further research the most prominent thing seems to be that the US changed its whole economic strategy around that time

they apparently started cutting taxes a lot, especially for rich people and corporations. from what i found, the top income tax rate was like 70 percent in 1980 and by the end of the 80s it was down to 28 percent. same deal with corporate taxes. the idea was called trickle down economics which is basically the theory that if rich people and businesses keep more money, they will invest more and it will help everyone. but from what i can tell, that just led to more wealth for the top and not much improvement for the average person
Yeah all that's bullshit.
During the late 70's we had inflation at 14%, and fuel shortages.
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These gasoline rationing lines were nationwide.
Reagan signed major tax reform in 1981, and in 1986 after a major stock market crash.
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By 1987 Federal interest rates were around 4%, the energy crisis was over, allowing the people to buy housing, and start businesses, WHILE TOTAL FEDERAL REVENUE WENT UP.
 
Based on the pictures I've seen, there's no cohesive message with this protest whatsoever. It's just another fucking temper tantrum over the fact that the person they didn't vote for won. That's literally all this is.
All things considered, they are legally permitted TO protest as that IS their right granted by our Constitution. I don't think they're aware or CARE that they're privileged TO throw tantrums disguised as protests when other countries would just lock them up for speaking out.
 
Even that is like a mile of land off a highway just framed to look like it's super compact and consumerist. Europeans are fucking retarded and I refuse to acknowledge them as people.
Euros are incapable of understanding places like Breezewood because they don't have a highway system like ours and because they don't understand that their countries are, for the autists, Switch sized, while America is a full-sized tower PC. For the Euros, there are highway exits that develop what we call Rest Stops, because crossing a state in America takes hours and crossing the country takes days, you could probably do it in 3 or so if you were able to drive without stopping, a week if you're sane. So market forces create places where people can eat, refuel their vehicles, stay overnight, etc. The town their named for is usually nearby, it's not the rest stop area itself. This confuses and frightens the Eurocuck though, so don't expect them to get it.

Great if you've done a lot of road trips in America, but you do run the risk of getting the Big Sky Country bug and then you'll hate urban build up forever.
 
Eh this is really only Germans and that’s because of WWII. If you go to Europe you’ll see flags everywhere. They just hate American patriotism because the media feeds them bullshit about us being uncultured rednecks who shoot people.

Clearly they're super misinformed. Its two groups of people! Uncultured rednecks and blacks who are shooting people.
 
I can't wait for Europe to start boycotting 100% American imports like LGBT ideology and Critical Race Theory.
not a chance with uk right off the coast acting as a bridgehead. but even if they go even more retarded than they usual are and close themselves off, europe would still have to deal with france...

With bad teeth, no less.
every time this topic comes up I really like the inevitable irony of "yuros are dumb for thinking burgers are fat, uneducated retards" with a fictional list of epic owns, and then proving them right by thinking everyone in europe is a britbong.
 
Pussy.

I did Atlantic Ocean to Texas in 16 hours, with 4 stops at places like that.

Edit: Austin sucks BTW.
That's just like half way, but it is doable, especially if you consider speed limits as more like guidelines or suggestions. My family took a summer back in the days before NAFTA ruined things and went from Lon Guyland to Arizona and back, stopped with family and friends along the way, lots of camping. That MythoAmerica twitter account hits me right in the feels and I hate seeing what my country has become, because I remember what she was. I don't care if Trump's tariffs crash the global economy with no survivors, it won't ever go back to the way things were, but getting back to something like that is worth the risk.
 
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