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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sumoj275" data-source="post: 4201786" data-attributes="member: 198">I don’t think we should have to pay grocery tax, tax on medication, disabled vets that are due to combat injuries, or sales tax in Oklahoma. As to blame anyone for the current affairs of the US today no one wants to take responsibility for this mess our country is in. At least we know when our country was at its height and when it started slipping down a slippery slope. The 1950’s, was a great time in the US due to a few simple facts like the rest of the world was either under Communism or rebuilding from a thing called WW II, not to mention the US still had a producing society untouched by war. By the late 1960’s, jobs were moving overseas from tools to cars, and let’s not forget electronics. As unions wanted numbers in their ranks they promised, and got, their members more money and incentives. Owners and boards needed to make more money in the 1970’s, to repay the banks and investors so more jobs and business moved over seas. Now, we are a country of service- waiters, entertainment, and such.  Now China is taking the world by its short hairs while half of the U.S. pretends the government cares for us and wants the best for us. It is going to be hard to MAGA when we are short of the trained trades from manufacturers, machinists, to all kinds of jobs lost over the last 55 plus years. Enough history.  Some have lived it, others of us have experienced it, and we ALL should have studied it and learned from it.   The Roman satirist Juvenal (late 1st century AD through early 2nd century AD) wrote in Satire X, “ Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt”.  How true that rings today, the country isn’t lost yet, but it is near if something isn’t done about it. Hopefully, we can restart after the next elections.</blockquote>

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