[Liberty4eva]

Originally Posted by lostalex

America is a work in progress, like all nations, and more importantly all human beings. Every year of these past 235 years has been better than the year before.

The world is most definitely getting better every day not worse, and America has a lot to do with that progress.

If you could go back in time 50 years, 100 years, 200 years... i doubt you'd want to trade places with any of them.

Name any time in history that was better than now. I'd be interested in knowing which time in history you believe is better than now. Which period of history had less poverty? which period had less disease? which period had more equality? which period has less violence, less rape, less crime.

I can't think of any.

From what I've read and the general impressions I get the 1950s weren't too shabby. Back then people didn't have to work three jobs to support themselves and a family. One job usually sufficed and the wife didn't even have to work. Back then people actually saved their money instead of going into the red thousands of dollars. The education was better. Does that answer your question?