The reason everything was better in the 1950s and 60s and before, is because back then, the american government was wasting much less money. once it started wasting money on wars (vietnam/korea/etc) things started going down hill. the crazy military spending was one of the main reasons soviet union fell apart. this might happen to US.
this trickles down to EVERYTHING. Let's take housing, for example. Reason housing dramatically went up in price is because THERE IS NOT ENOUGH OF IT BEING BUILT. Why? Because the government fees to build/permit things have increased, and places like San Francisco specifically limit and forbid new construction to artificially keep the prices up. If building new housing in SF were easier (like it is in Ohio/Indiana), prices would fall very quickly. But who wants that, right? Not the existing property owners with money who control things there.
