How old are you?

[Go Vols]

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I can remember when life was nice,but I am getting old.

One parent work and live in a big house, and new cars every 3-4 years,vacations,ect..

Raygun fucked shit up when he got there,Obama said he would be to the RIGHT of him,Hillary is Obama 3.0?



Disclaimer: Life is still nice for me as I recognized,in Jan of '81.

We are the richest nation on the planet,I don't see it.

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[H2O Man]

1. Recommended.

I'm really old.

[Barack_America]

2. Not old enough to have lived any of that, but old enough...

...to have watched the last of it slip away.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I haven't seen 55 in over a decade!

I'm REALLY old.

[Go Vols]

35. lol

[liberal_at_heart]

4. Young enough to see the destruction that Reagan and every politician since Reagan has brought

on this country. We lived in a trailer, never took any vacations, and only had used cars that we had to work on ourselves.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. We didn't have a family car

until I was 13 or 14. No vacations, except for an occasional church camp. We did have our own house, though (bought for $6000 in 1963).

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. old enough to know better!

[Kalidurga]

6. I am old...

but, even older than my experience. I was lucky enough to know two of my great grandparents and I was lucky enough that they would tell me stories. My grandparents also told me stories. My parents dropped the ball for the most part. Still, I feel lucky to have been able to learn from my great grandparents and my grandparents oh and my aunts they had lots of stuff to tell me. I do remember Reagan though. And some of what was going on under Carter. I don't remember but I was born when LBJ was president. I don't remember much of Nixon though either except that Watergate was a topic when I was knee high to a grasshopper and I was introduced to the term red tape.

[Go Vols]

7. older than my lifetime too

I grew up in my Gandpas country store around folks born before 1900.

[Kalidurga]

44. You are lucky

I love hanging out with older people. Now I am an older people and I still like hanging out with people much older. I like younger people too, but IMO people get more interesting with age.

[SheilaT]

9. I think DU skews a bit old.

Like California Peggy I haven't seen 55 in over a decade. I joined DU in 2002, and a lot of us old people here are long timers.

I do recall, back in the early days, engaging often with wonderful young people, under 20, but many of them have just disappeared. That's a shame. I'd like to have a better range of ages here.

[Mike__M]

10. Old enough to remember

Governor Moonbeam
Med fly spray
Santa Clara Valley was famous for prunes
James Watt coming to speak when I was at Humboldt State.

[Recursion]

11. If you don't see it, maybe you should go to some poorer nations and you'll get it

One parent work and live in a big house, and new cars every 3-4 years,vacations,ect..

And that was predicated on keeping minorities and women out of the job market. Once jobs opened up to them, and the labor pool nearly tripled, wages fell.

That's probably why white males are the only demographic that hasn't seen wage gains in the past 40 years, while all the other demographics have.

[Go Vols]

13. Quite odd

as my daddy worked in the Union along with women that made as much as he did in the '60s.

[Recursion]

17. That was a very unusual union at the time, then

Women were 30% of the workforce in 1960, and about 8% of the union workforce (and that was generally in all-woman production floors, which were still a thing at the time). UAW workers actually went on strike to protest the hiring of any woman for a production job "while there is still an unemployed man in the country". In 1954.

AFL had many white-only affiliate unions and only disavowed that at the top level when they merged with CIO (and even then it took decades to actually force that through some affiliates).

[Go Vols]

21. He was in the Steelworkers Union

but you are correct on the ratio,women didn't search out such jobs at that time and there were few there.

My son in the Ironworkers Union works with about 30% women.

[Recursion]

23. And USW was very specifically created after a fight between USWOC and AFL

Over, among other things, the fact that USWOC wanted to include black workers (if gender was a part of that fight nobody seems to have mentioned it). But, yeah: the Steelworkers have always been a very inclusive union, fortunately.

[Gregorian]

12. Too.

[Warren Stupidity]

14. We aren't the richest nation by GDP per capita.

We still have the largest total GDP, but China will surpass us there soon enough. Per capita we are around number 10. Other measures put us even lower. On the social progress index we are at 16.

[Go Vols]

15. :)

[Recursion]

18. We've been trading 1st place back and forth with China for a few years

But, yeah: we're like #10 in per capita GDP, behind some very small very rich countries (Monaco, UAE, Luxembourg, etc.) and Switzerland

[Go Vols]

16. Poll is going the way I expected.

ty

[The Roux Comes First]

19. Chronologically "Old," Maybe, Depnding on Your Scale (65), But I Bet Most Who Know Me

would be quick to come up with the equivalent of "young at heart." One former co-worker thought I was ten years younger.

Were it not for major company merger recently and resulting destruction of the quality of life at work, I might be able to maintain that profile.

Meanwhile, our first grandchild, three years old in January, is a ready antidote as she is nearby for almost all of the crap the adult world can throw at me.

Yet that retirement is going to have to happen earlier than I had been thinking!

[denverbill]

20. I don't recall Obama ever saying he would be to the RIGHT of Reagan.

And though he has been a disappointment to me, he has not been to the right of Reagan. He has been an Eisenhower Republican, IMO. Hillary would be a Clinton Democrat. Socially fairly liberal, economically beholden to Wal(lstreet)(Mart)

[bigwillq]

22. 30+ (nt)

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. 30+

Me too!!!!

[flamingdem]

24. Old enough to remember the doom I felt when Raygun was elected

That was the beginning of a slide downhill for working people and the middle class.

[Go Vols]

25. yes it was

and alot of people never lived thru it,or are living it now and think its the norm.

[flamingdem]

26. I was in art school in Nyc and a classmate said he'd vote for Reagan because

he'd make things more interesting.

This is how I know that people who are otherwise okay humans will vote for Trump.

Also, it happened in California, I saw people vote for the Terminator Arnold who just wanted a laugh at everyone else's expense.

So I'm worried. Boomer wisdom!

[retrowire]

28. I'm so millennial it hurts. nt

[Go Vols]

29. Still young at heart here,

I dig on alt '90s rock.

[Downwinder]

30. All the above and then some.

I listened to the Truman Dewey returns on RADIO.

[Kip Humphrey]

31. Wow... The aging of DU. Didn't used to look this old 12 years ago!

But then neither did I!

[olddots]

33. I tell everyone that I'm 73 years old

so they'll tell me I look great for my age ( hopefully )

[Go Vols]

34. +1

[Thirties Child]

36. Two of my children are 55+

Which makes me really, really old. As Mr. Thirties said once, "You know you're old when your kids get arthritis."

[Go Vols]

38. My Daddy voted for Bernie

at 78 years old last week.

[TSIAS]

37. 31

[Jim Beard]

39. I am the age that is the same when it is turned upside down and

became very popular in the 1960's







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[Go Vols]

40. U in Tenn?

I got kin with that name.

[Ken Burch]

41. Just turned 55 in December.

Been following politics since at least 1972, when I was eleven going on twelve.

[aidbo]

42. Lol, I switched my vote from 30+ to 18+ Because both are true. 😁

[Go Vols]

43. ty