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What caused the booming economy was the fact that every other industrialized nation in the world had been bombed back to the stone age during the war. Nothing more, and nothing less than that.

DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!

The United States was poised to be an industrial juggernaut after WWII, because we had all the facilities, money, and drive to provide for all the wants and needs of the WORLD! We quickly provided cars, processed foods, furniture, etc... while the rest of the world was bulldozing bomb rubble out of their streets! That growth continued all the way into the 1970's!

The problem is, the rest of the world caught up with and, in many ways, surpassed American manufacturing capabilities. Destructive regulations, oppressive taxation, and dwindling purchases from other countries caused America to falter and fall from a manufacturing-lead country to a user-lead country.

History shows that once a country moves into the "user" mode, it is only a matter of time before it becomes too dependent on others and ultimately FAILS! See most of Europe! See most of Africa! See the Roman Empire!

“The problem is, the rest of the world caught up with and, in many ways, surpassed American manufacturing capabilities. Destructive regulations, oppressive taxation, and dwindling purchases from other countries caused America to falter and fall from a manufacturing-lead country to a user-lead country.”

Yep, it took a little over 20 years for those other countries to rebuild after the war, and build new factories.

The problem for American manufactures was they built new modern factories in Europe and Japan, and filled them with new modern machinery. We were left trying to compete with old machines, old dysfunctional factories, and saddled with communist unions used to having their sustainable demands met.

American factories were forced by the unions to either build new factories in RTW states, or move their operations out of America altogether. Private sector unions are now toothless tigers of their former selves.

Our next battle for survival of America will be to get rid of the public sector unions that are bankrupting cities and states. That is a battle we can easily win, because middle class taxpayers see them as the reason their taxes keep going up.