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Mr.Bee

(1,920 posts)
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 11:19 AM Sep 2025

Those Were The Days

M A G A = Morons Against Governing America

I wrote this comment today "Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again!"
This theme song for All in the Family encapsulates the myth of Herbert Hoover,
and it made me think... I can just imagine Darn and his family watching it and nodding.
This is the world he's living in...

Hoovervilles were shanty towns and slums built during the Republican Great Depression by the homeless in the United States.
They were named after Herbert Hoover.

Watching world traveler Rick Steeves, who comments that European countries have a top-tax rate of 60% or higher,
and everyone is taken care of, everyone has healthcare, everyone is happy,
but in this country we must cut away at our social safety net.

Didn't need no Welfare states
Everybody pulled his weight
gee our old LaSalle ran great
Those were the days

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Those Were The Days (Original Post) Mr.Bee Sep 2025 OP
I wonder how great it would have been for Archie Bunker House of Roberts Sep 2025 #1

House of Roberts

(6,635 posts)
1. I wonder how great it would have been for Archie Bunker
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 11:57 AM
Sep 2025

if his right wing government outlawed his union, and his pay and benefits got cut in half, then when he retired, he had to get by on a third of what he was promised when his corporation bailed out of funding his pension with a bankruptcy.

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