The Good Old Days

I hear someone now feels that working women are destroying America.  They want to go back to the good old days.

Working women allow some families to have both food on the table and money to pay the doctor.  Working women allow men who want to be caretakers an opportunity to do so.  Working women mean that widows don't necessarily go on the dole.  Working women mean lots of good things.  Even more good things when those women make the same wages as men doing the same job.

Assuming we could go back to the good old days I wonder which ones people would choose?

The forties when children were still being paralyzed by polio and Rosey the riveter was "helping out" at home so GI Joe could fight wars over seas?

The thirties when people were standing in bread lines and dust was infiltrating the lungs of everyone in the dust bowl?

Maybe back in the 1890's when coal dust coated everything in the city and boys grew up with bent backs from crawling through the mines all day every day.

Or back even further when raw sewage lay in the gutters and children were whipped and tied to their looms for twelve hours a day in factories that were fire traps.

These are the good old days.