Which period in American history would you want to live in?

-Given our current state of affairs, it seems that more and more Americans believe that America's brightest moments are behind us. With that being said, what time period in our nations history would you have wanted to live in? I would have loved to to have lived during the time when our Founding Fathers created this great nation.Either the 1780s or the 1880s.The future could be a lot better than the present or the past, we just have to start looking at what it is that is causing our current problems and start finding solutions, instead of voting and expecting politicians to do it for us. Politicians don't solve problems, they make laws, collect taxes and declare wars; and that's all they do. If we want problems fixed, we need technicians. Most all elected government positions are being held by someone with a law degree...Lawyers are not going to fix problems, just argue about them. We need a leadership made up of our best and brightest scientists and scholars, not lawyers and car salesmen. We have to start deciding now, whether we want our future to look more like "Star Trek" or "The Road Warrior"...
"The Gothic idea that we are to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion and in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion & government, by whom it has been recommended, & whose purposes it would answer."



--Thomas Jefferson; letter to Dr. Joseph Priestly (Jan, 27, 1800)
Ohhh,,,I would say between 1890 and 1920,,,it was the time when electricity, indoor plumbing was available in most cities, the really cool inventions ( autos, airplanes, etc) were just coming to be, most things were still legal and if you really wanted to,,a man could still jump on a horse and ride off into the sunset.
I would look towards the future, not the past.





but maybe the 1990's would be a period of peace and prosperity, to some extent.





1975 through 1980 was kind of nice because we didn't have a military draft of any kind, no selective service, no nothing.





2011 was a memorable year for New York:

-bin laden caught

-gay marriage legalized
Dude, cheer up. Stressing isn't worth it. Life is too short.



Life is good. I have no complaints.



In the days you choose, unless you have a shitload of money, you'd be worse off than you are now.
most people look at from a money/tax/government standpoint.



I don't let that affect my life, and without even thinking of it, I would like somewhere around the early 1900s.
I would go back to colonial times, to educate the natives on the military tactics of the europeans
In the mid 1950s when the Democrats and Eisenhower made the US better. US had the best education in the world. When the Great Society took place.
Good question. I think perhaps the War of Northern Aggression, to witness first hand the effect of a president deliberately dividing our nation.
I'd prefer to be a young adult working during the mid-late 1980s
There was just as much disagreement and disparity then. I like the times we are in.
The one in the future where Americans don't hate gays.
2012---> Because Obama will be dethroned
1980's
1600's with the tribes in the northwest.
the 1960's....interesting times
Whenever the Age of Enlightment was fierce in america
The good times are now.
1920s - we had a REAL free market