Our whole standard of living has been declining in the USA in the last 20 years, unemployment rose as we lost jobs to other nations, homelessness rose, and suicide rates have steadily increased over the last 20 years.
I remember how it was when President Reagan was President, in the 1980's, it was great. I was a teen in the 1980's, it was a great time to be a teen. And my home town was rich as everyone worked on the Space Shuttles, etc. We had a nice house with a swimming pool. My step-dad was a supervisor on the Space Shuttle. Reagan made everyone legal, all of our immigrants were made legal. It was a great time. And there were plenty of jobs for everyone. I managed a dog kennel, and we had some customers who were movie stars, California is great because we have a lot of stars here. In the 1980's the music was good, the women were beautiful, the economy was good, it was great.
Everything began to decline about 1990, when George H. W. Bush was President. And it just has gotten worse since. The whole time Clinton was President the economy just got worse and worse as the entertainment jobs went to Canada, etc, and as we lost jobs to China, etc.
And the Space Shuttle jobs are long gone. We need to build new space ships in the Antelope Valley to bring the jobs back to the area. Lots of great high tech stuff can happen in the desert, and is happening in the desert.
Apple computers are built in Texas now, so I am going to buy an Apple when I update and upgrade my office equipment.
There is a lot of hard work to do. And the suicide rate is going up every year, people are so miserable that they are killing themselves.
Salute,
Tony V.