The Establishment

[Justine Cooper]

Your dad only turned the car around? Mine stopped and belted at the side of the road! That was legal then, back in the good ol seventies. Pulling facts by the way from websites that aren't even proven at truth (as Dr. Calhoun pointed out) is time wasting. And it won't help Lakewood. move on.

[ryan costa]

We shouldn't worry about feeding the world. Population spikes in Africa and the Middle East lead to revolutions or genocidal civil wars. East Asians have been living in dense villages and cities for thousands of years, so they can handle population explosions a bit better.

[ryan costa]

it didn't matter that interest rates were higher in the 70s, because a lot less stuff was bought on credit.

cities were still in somewhat better shape. folks had more time. Parents had more time. There was more stuff to do.

the evidence is pretty consistent what the deindustrialization tv-drenched sprawl initiative has done to our society.

[Stephen Eisel]

it didn't matter that interest rates were higher in the 70s, because a lot less stuff was bought on credit.

cities were still in somewhat better shape. folks had more time. Parents had more time. There was more stuff to do.

the evidence is pretty consistent what the deindustrialization tv-drenched sprawl initiative has done to our society.

Ryan, I agree with most of your post. It appears that it now takes two incomes to buy a house, keep it warm in the winter and have enough money left over to put gas in the family mobiles. I remember when I was young laddybuck. Many families had a house two cars and etc on one income.