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> In many cases, European settlers bought land from the natives.

They thought they did. Neither side understood the other's expectations of land rights.

See for examples: http://www.learnnc.org/lp/edit...

When was that? In WWII, the Germans didn't attack the US.
Actually we did.
It was kept a secret during WWII, more or less. But afterwards actually everyone knows, well, you obviously not.
We sank dozens if not hundreds of ships along the coast, and in some rivers and shelled some harbor factories from sea.
With submarines of course. That was actually very early in the war.
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/edit...
Ooops, actually close to 400 ships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Summary about german operations close or in the Americas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

We tried a experimental long range bomber that flew from France to about 20miles north of New York in a trial bombing run. 36h round trip flight. Luckily we only had vey few (2?) of those planes and they never went operational.

I don't find a link regarding the land bombardments from uboats ... I saw a history movie about that a few days ago, though.

And a not so well known fact: german subs sank about 100 ships in front of the US coast. See e.g.: http://www.learnnc.org/lp/edit...

Income inequality has not always grown. It did not grow in the postwar period (low- and middle-class incomes grew faster than high incomes). It's worth noting that this period covers the most rapid increase in overall wealth, prosperity and living standards in human history, precisely because of that.

Post-hoc, ergo propter hoc?

You're thinking in the short run, first of all. I could say that GDP has always grown (it has), and show you a chart. You could tell me it fell several times, notably in the 1930s (great depression) and in the 1945 post-war period. Look at the graph, though: GDP has always grown. In the long run, productivity grows.

Second, rapid increases in overall wealth, prosperity, and living standards did not occur *because* of middle-class recovery; they are a *symptom* of middle-class recovery. The war consumed resources, devoting production to destructive war efforts. Nylon and steel became scare because all labor available to produce steel was usurped to produce weapons of war. The common man could not get sliced bread because the steel for slicing machine blades wasn't available. Gasoline became scarce because there wasn't enough physical labor available to refine fuel for the war *and* for our domestic use.

During the war, a lot of women got man-jobs. There was still a labor shortage. A lot of workers were sent off to war, and our ability to produce shrank.

You think somehow, magically, the post-war period became about giving to the middle-class and not the rich, and that this simple shifting of income distribution drove our economy to new heights? The post-war period was about ending the anal rape of our economy and putting workers back to work. We got rich because we started building things again.

You have an incredibly distorted view of history *and* economics.

Actually, if memory serves, they've been washing away and coming back in various places for some time now. Hurricanes wash out parts of it, and the Gulf Stream drops off more due to North Carolina's unique geology (basically, it sticks out into the current).

The Outer Banks are pretty much a dynamic setup, and IIRC are not as cyclical or regular like, say, the removal and deposition of sand out here on the Oregon Coast (winter storms wash it away, currents drop more off come Spring, etc).

In either case, they've not always been there, and in truth, won't always be there - well, unless climate, tectonics, ocean currents, and weather all conspired to suddenly stop changing.

By the way: "science-based predictions" isn't enough. I'd prefer "accurate science-based predictions" before whipping out the hysteria.

It's not about the texts. Archaeologists learn a lot from trash :

"The unusable or unwanted remnants of everyday life end up in the garbage. By studying what people have thrown away, archaeologists can learn a great deal about a culture. This is true not only of prehistoric peoples who left no written record about their lives, but also of people today. Archaeologist Bill Rathje studies the garbage of Americans. He has learned many things about the relationships of human behavior and trash disposal, information useful in studying people of the past and the present. Rathje has found that people will often tell an interviewer what they believe is appropriate behavior, but their garbage tells another story. For instance, people frequently say they eat lots of fruits and vegetables, yet their garbage shows they do not. Another example is that people say they recycle more than they actually do (Rathje 1984, p. 27)."

Before WWII, managers and other company leadership took "adverse actions" such as hiring gunmen to kill union activists and strikers. Let's not get too dewy-eyed about "work ethics" often driven by desperation and coerced by threat and force.

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newcentury/5168

I used to work in the coal industry, so I'm well aware of the history of union-management strife. Situations back then were (to me, anyway) more reminiscent of modern ideological/ethnic conflicts, where the enemy (who may be your neighbor) is painted as evil and both sides work to desensitize violence against the other.

"Organizations (not just companies) got so large that a manager could take actions adversely affecting thousands of anonymous employees with impunity."

Before WWII, managers and other company leadership took "adverse actions" such as hiring gunmen to kill union activists and strikers. Let's not get too dewy-eyed about "work ethics" often driven by desperation and coerced by threat and force.

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newcentury/5168