Posted on 11/11/2014 12:41:21 PM PST by Kaslin
The guy behind the guy in the white sweater is my guess.
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Re: “”Married people” — for whatever reason — “are happier, healthier and better off financially.”
Well, two out of three, anyway.
Coolidge died at age 60.
I'll guess mockery of white Conservatives.
Norman Lear (Executive Producer) and Carroll O'Connor (Archie Bunker) were hard line Socialists in real life.
Archie Bunker, the character, was supposed to be a typical middle class Conservative.
Not so much middle class, but a skewering of White blue-collar types (Archie, after all, worked at a loading dock to begin with before moving up to being a bar & grill owner at the end of the series). I did think it odd Archie was supposed to be playing White Protestant of British heritage when it was pretty clear he looked like an ethnic Irish Catholic (which, of course, CO’C was).
My grandfather loved the character, though he was a generation older than Archie (born in 1897 while Archie/O’Connor was born in 1924). He was an ethnic Scot immigrant Protestant who lived both in Brooklyn and Queens, not very far from where the Bunkers were supposed to live.
An eminently praiseworthy attitude, whatever your outlook on GLD!
Well people didn’t live that long at that time.
Excellent. Yes.
Stealing gold...that sounds so...Third Reich.
Never forget, never forgive.
Yup.
CC is waaaaaaaaaay up there....along with RR and GW..... IMHO.
Government cannot re-distribute wealth; it can only redistribute poverty. The point of collectivism is not to eliminate poverty; it is to eliminate wealth — and at that it is quite effective.
Regarding marriage, why do you think that the Left is hell-bent on destroying that institution? Cal Thomas spelled out how marriage benefits the economy. Children born out of wedlock by definition live in unstable homes and as a result are more prone to truancy, early pregnancy, mental illness and crime.
That is why society is invested in marriage; the circumstances under which children are reared affect society as a whole. And that is why if marriage is to be re-defined, the burden is upon those who would change it to make the case that doing so would not be a net loss to society.
The fact that the institution of marriage [in its “traditional” form] developed independently in every culture indicates how vital it is.
I was being a little wry and sarcastic.
However, life expectancy for USA white males was almost 61 in 1933.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005148.html
Coolidge, who is one of my political heroes, by the way, lived to be only 60, so he was clearly not healthier than the average white male.
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