yes...the "Leave it to Beaver" era...What I wouldn't give to live the "Ward Cleaver" life...And come home at 5PM to June's home cooking...I am fortunate, I do get a pension in 4 years, but it has been a brow beating 13 hours a day for 28 years to get there.

Assuming this lifestyle is desired, what kind of societal engineering would it take to make the single-income homeowner with a pension a reality? What would need to occur in order to really ‘make America great again’ not for whites only, but for all?

Utopia was a Todd Rundgren fronted prog rock band from the 1970's.

Even those days had their trials and tribulations, but at least everyone could afford to live.

Those days of the land of plenty are gone and they are not coming back. 325 million is a lot and the resources are the same. Tough choices ahead for all countries in the world, not just USA. Life has gotten tougher for everyone and won't get easier, we must change, re-invent ourselves. (Edit, typo on the figure)

Very true.

So sad and true.

If one posted a photo of a Southern Plantation in the 1700's and showed their lifestyle, minus the slave huts in the background...is that an extension of the same thing?

Did the quest for equality affect this?
Were low wage workers and oppressed minorities footing the bill for this Utopia in the 1950's?

Times change. Now we want stuff.

This was mostly back during the Eisenhower years, give or take a few on either side, I'd say. But even during those years, with 3 kids, wife, horses, various other animals, a 1/4 acre with 2 houses to keep up, it seemed like my father was always working 2 jobs, one at GM. I don't know, maybe he just liked to work-or may be he just wanted to be away from us. (Don't really think it was the latter as he was a good dad)