The knowledge of our country’s history and past accomplishments
as an economic power is the equivalent of the recollection of
our life’s studies and experiences. If you are over 60 years of
age, you have lived through the golden years of the industrial
manufacturing complex when we owned and conquered the economic
world. If you are 45 years old or younger, you probably, unless
you studied the literary writers of the early 20th century
(Lewis, Fitzgerald, etc) and the history, economics and social
organizations of that time period you have no base line to
understand how the inequalities between the private
sector/wealthy and labor (the working and lower middle class,
farmers displaced due to mechanization, Anglo-Saxon, European
immigrants, Native Americans and African Americans) who not only
had a great disadvantage in wealth but who also averaged over
25,000 deaths per year (quarter of a million for decade of the
20’s) and 100,000 permanently injured each year (one million for
decade of the 20’s) . Our countr