Equal Opportunity

     I saw the movie, The Life & Times of Rosie the Riveter, and one woman who lived through WWII was interviewed.  She said, "We believed that economy would improve, that we'd rebuild the cities because before the war we didn't have all these skilled people,  We thought it'd be time to do all the good and beautiful things for America."   They also figured for world redevelopment would keep job market strong.  New gadgets and science to make life easier.  
     Instead, they got a perverted future, thanks to Corp greed, condoned by world gov't.  Instead, they got cheapening.  Post-war building.  Cars that looked pretty but were inferior to the small Japanese and German cars.  A workforce that moved to factory communes in China.  Perscriptions and pills that cause side effects.  Empty calorie processed foods, replacing the "Bread basket of Am".  Paris Hilton getting more airtime than NRA issues.  The War on Drugs that never accomplishes any headway.  Products made in America that require constant repair... because industries rather collect service fees and kickbacks and gov't subsidies than build a quality product like in WWII.  Instead, they got extra fees--slipped in to all their regular expenses.  
     Now, you've got whole communities (some built on unsafe ground) that are merely producing hordes of consumers--feeding finance and business... businesses that don't produce anything.  Those communities lack teamwork.  Gone is the sense of accomplishment.  Instead of people coming together to fix the community, they hire day laborers/illegal aliens.  
     What are Baby Boomers and Yuppies?  Consumers.  
     Industries turned their backs on the initiative to build great things.  Cities decayed.  Tax dollars are squandered and most big companies don't even pay taxes.  The disparity between rich & poor rose to extremes, not seen since Industrial Revolution.  Black women who got rights via unions during WWII factory work, had those rights revoked during peacetime.  It took more than 20 years for the rights to be restored, during riots of the Martin Luther King 60s.  Women needed 50 more years to get equality back in the workforce.  See the movie "9 to 5".  
     Maybe it'll be the groundbreaking companies with a sense of global equity that might swing the pendulum back against the oily push from old-school American institutions (whose beginnings erupted during the Gilded Age).