In the country, our best years economically were from the 1940s into the 1970s, when we had the … - Paul Solman

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The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself.

Paul Solman

In the country, our best years economically were from the 1940s into the 1970s, when we had the best public works - we call it infrastructure today - in the history of the world. Highways, bridges, water and sewer, community colleges and medical research. We don't do that the way we used to.

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