Let's discuss Trump's slogan. When was America great?

[downtoearth]

Aug 18, 2015 12:24:48 GMT -5 CheeringCharm said:

I think he's probably talking about the 50s (a golden political period for the U.S. government and middle class maybe but only if you were a white male) and possibly the 80s/90s boom. There's a fundamental problem with economic booms though.

But the 80's/90's boom wasn't everywhere. In the Midwest most real estate tanked in the 80's and investors and regular people lost a lot of their assets. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis

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Aug 18, 2015 12:27:31 GMT -5 downtoearth said:

Aug 18, 2015 12:24:48 GMT -5 CheeringCharm said:

I think he's probably talking about the 50s (a golden political period for the U.S. government and middle class maybe but only if you were a white male) and possibly the 80s/90s boom. There's a fundamental problem with economic booms though.

But the 80's/90's boom wasn't everywhere. In the Midwest most real estate tanked in the 80's and investors and regular people lost a lot of their assets. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis

True. Didn't he himself go bankrupt a time or two in the 80s? And then there's the problem that they're not sustainable anyway.

He is an interesting "only in America" type figure. But that doesn't make him a sound political candidate for president.