When Silicon Valley Was Young [View all]

[Mr.Bee]

The persons you should be listening to are not the ones born after 1980.
'TOM HARTMANN has been talking about the Two-Santa-Claus theory for as long as he has been on the air,
and yet it has gained no traction within the Democratic Party. I just don’t get it.'

The persons you should be listening to are those of us who came of age in the seventies.
The seventies. When everything worked.
The birth of Silicon Valley.
The birth of many technological companies, Apple, Intel, AMD!
Medical coverage was so cheap hiring companies were offering benefits as an incentive!
I worked at two large-name companies then, 100% medical, 80% dental.
CEOs only made 20 times more than their employees.
-and no one complained a 70% top tax rate was too high-
because a well-manned workforce was more important.
We were all in it together.
Then along came Mr. Reagan and his free-trade Nafta,
which turned in off-shoring and divided the nation.
I said even back then 'this cannot end well,'
as we watched our jobs and manufacturing dry up.
That's the experience we lived through.
They're hoping our generation dies off before we can tell our story
of how things worked before low taxes, billionaires, tax cuts, and trickle-down.