re: #85 NO SMOCKING GUN!

A total fantasy they cling to.

It was a mythical golden age in which a man who could manage to get through High School could get on at the mines, work hard, afford a house, a nice car or two, maybe even and a boat or a vacation cabin, and still afford to put his kids through state college without even having to send his wife to work.

Where I came from, it was much the same but involved working in the steel mills or related industries. Worked for my dad, he put his kids through college and got us all into the middle class.