What I like to tell my RW friends regarding their "working HARDER to EARN a better wage" chestnut -

[JDPriestly]

81. Actually, the ideas arose in the 1960s and 1970s.

I remember the John Birch Society's ominous beginnings in the 1960s.

In the early 1970s (about 1973), there was an oil crisis. I had a job in which I was required to read the Fin. Times and other similar newspapers everyday and summarize relevant articles for my bosses. Already, the chat was that the US would be the bread basket of the world and export food while the rest of the world would export goods to the US, especially oil.

That was, of course, not the way it worked out.

I have always wondered what kinds of discussions, maybe even deals Nixon had or began when he visited China. That visit and before it, our thwarting of the fledgling Iranian democracy were the beginning of the fall of the US. It's going to take a lot to pick our country up again, to revitalize us. I think we will have to shed a lot of old cliches about economics and many other things. It won't be easy.