Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 02, 2016

The early ‘80s sucked! The country went through the worst recession since the Great Depression!

I don’t miss those time : horrible music

The days of our youth look better in retrospect.In part because we survived them.In part because we don’t remember our fears as clearly as when we had them.In part because we DO remember pain free existence.In part because we hadn’t made all those subsequent mistakes yet.

Yup!!!!! It hasn’t quit, either!!!

Remember, this was written in 1985.Kinda changes the joke.

Trickle Down was actually Trickle Up.

The license plate has changed, too.

Sal should quit and get a job.

So Lobo… Did you frequent the ‘Green Spider’ back then? I was down there too… but earlier, in the late ’60’s, early ’70’s.

Well, it’s been said before, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

long time readers, neither my spouse nor i remember Doonesbury brother Sal…Sal? What became of him?

As a college professor who was getting hammered by double digit inflation, when it stopped, some of that money began flowing back to ME.

In case you wonder why the cost of college rises faster than inflation, it’s because universities never really caught up with inflation in the late 70’s.

Yeah, the time of “hostile takeovers” and “Leveraged buyouts”, layoffs and the beginning of “trickle-down” economics! And most of us are still reeling from its effects today!

I gather that everyone here is less than 42 years old and sparring with ancient thoughts, rejoinders and “I heards”..I got where I am by ‘doubling my money’ in that if I got paida hundred bucks, fifty of it would go into the bank, IRA, or whatever the law allowed (and sometimes not) The Depression and The War taught me at an early age that nobody was going to take care of us unless we struggledand helped ourselves to get ‘upwardly mobile,’ as they used to call it. Now, it seems that the offspring of those ‘upwardly mobile’sorts don’t have the foggiest notion of their predecessors struggles and aggravations and “want a share” of the pie, deserved or not. I officialy give up.

And here’s to you, sir. Happy New Year, and enjoy the brandy and cigars.

The one unbroken window on the old house by the park believes its success is due entirely to hard work and perseverance, and doesn’t believe the other windows deserve any help. One day soon, it will change its tune.

“1980. Wasn’t that when Reagan took over ".1981He was elected in 1980 in part because he applied President Carter’s Misery Index to the past 4 years.Misery Index was inflation rate plus unemployment rate.Carter used it against President Ford to prove him a failed president.Both had risen under Carter.Both went down under my hero, RWR.

Ah the early 8s. Back when MTV MEANT something!

Don’t kid yourself if you live with a roof over your head and have 3 meals a day at your discretion.. you are part of the 1% world wide..

Late 60s, early 70s…..much better.

If someone is a millionaire as El Segundo claims, they’re in the 1%. Apparently you’re under the mistaken impression that the 1% is only comprised of the ultra wealthy. The upper middle class is considered part of the 1% (there are 3 million people in the 1%…you think there are that many millionaires in the United States?).