Originally Posted by Guest

read it and I disagree with it. If you are a baby boomer you cannot return our country to the way it was.

I've said it before but after WW2 we were alone in the world. All of our allies and enemies were bombed out. All their factories were gone. We were in full swing and it was easy to continue to sell all over the world and to set prices.

How can we go back to that?

We had cheap college. My in state tuition was $350 and now the in-state tuition $12,600.

Inflation Calculator Calculate the value of $100 in 1970 - Inflation on 100 dollars - DollarTimes.com

$350 in 1970 is equal to : $2,195.85 in 2016
Annual Inflation: 4.07%
Total Inflation: 527.39%

Mom's stayed home when we were little even when the dad delivered milk or worked in a warehouse.

We can't go back. The rest of the world is willing to work for peanuts and outsourcing is all over. Companies outsource engineering jobs to India. Guess why?