Remember before the 1980s?When we had shop classes in our schools?When we actually made products in America?When we supplied the world with steel, machine tools, and automobiles?Remember when we had a working middle class?
Yes, before Bill Clinton signed NAFTA.
Those were the days when you had cars that you could actually repair with the minimal of specialized hi-tech whiz bang tools I can distinctly remember being out on a date and frying a set of points on my 1963 Buick SW -aka the love machine - grabbing a flashlight a screwdriver , and a book of matches, borrowing a nail file from my gf and repairing the problem well enough to get us home . Today with all of our over rated high tech toy computerized machines there is less opportunity for a kid to to develop an interest in working on them.....and so he doesn't
Yes . A farm tractor at the age of 8 . Had to run it standing up because if you sat down you couldn't reach the pedals .
yes, and to me it was the good ole days. one other thing i remember is drop outs or kids that couldn't cut high school went to a trade school and the ones that wanted to do good in school but needed a little bump in grades went to summer school to catch up. my answer is, i certainly am old enough to remember those times when the hard workers got ahead in life and i think it would be great for the USA for them to be brought back.....some how?
