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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Economy and Jobs: Debunking "The Good Old Days" Argument with Gregg Easterbrook

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

Politics, History, News

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Was the past better? Were the "Good Old Days" really all they are chalked up to be?  Gregg Easterbrook, author of It's Better Than it Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear, has a bold argument. Things are better now then they have ever been. A reminder about our sponsor Warby Parker eyeglasses - get your try on pack of 5 frames at www.warbyparker.com/myhistory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, I'm Mike Troy, host of the American Revolution Podcast on the Airwave Media Network.

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This podcast is the origin story of the United States, how we went from colonies ruled by a king to the Democratic Republic that we have today.

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The American Revolution podcast tells the story of the revolution from beginning to end. The Revolution

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0:35.2

I always challenge people to name the specific year and place.

0:40.2

I've got a time machine. I'm going to teleport you back to the past it's a one-way trip you can never

0:45.6

return to the future you name the specific year and place where you want to be an average

0:50.6

person and I will send you there and nobody ever finishes that sentence.

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They're going to send you a box and you get to try them on.

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It's great. Oh, In recent years.

1:47.0

about 75,000 people have lost their jobs. Also in recent years, about 85,000 people a day, have found jobs.

1:53.6

84% of goods and services consumed by American citizens were produced inside the United

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State.

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Most of the decline of U.S US manufacturing employment as a share of GDP in the

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United States was already over in 2000. 71% of the steel used in the United States is made here.

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More Americans going upward out of the middle class towards high income than going downward towards low income.

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