Being referred to as “middle class” when pre-boomers were kids indicated that a family had more than the necessities of life. In the boom times after WWII, more and more people qualified for this title. To be middle class meant having a house, a car, a TV set and probably being able to take some [...]
The longer bickering and hostilities rule in our nation’s capital the longer it will be before America gets down to business. For months, the economy has tried to struggle back. The stock market has been up, unemployment has stopped rising, consumers are starting to buy albeit cautiously. Yet there’s something lacking as this jobless recovery [...]
We pre-boomers grew up in a time when there was no doubt that this country was the world leader in virtually everything we could think of. Our generation was born between 1930 and 1945, so we saw results of what a united people are capable of doing. Rising from the ashes of the Great Depression, [...]
