Well, this isn't entirely true, but you do have to make a lot more sacrifices then most people are willing to make in this day and age to live on one income if that one income is not substantial.
As for the bag 'boy' job, those were different times. Less competition for jobs like that or any job back in the day(don't liberals want immigrants in here to do these things anyway? and weren't liberals one eager to foist women into the workplace and increase competition even more?) and I'd be willing to bet that those two gentlemen worked harder and took pride in the jobs they did. DUmmies really don't get it...those folks often lived within their means and from families I have known from those times in those situations, the wife usually did do some kind of work under the table at home...seamstress work, gardening, etc. Not to mention, as Sam Fisher said, taxes were lower in many instances. Schools did not require the kind of taxes they do now to support teacher's salary. There was not a lot of regulatory red tape people had to meet to drive, own homes, etc. Liberals have helped encumber people with obligations that make it damn near impossible to do what someone could 60 or 70 years ago. THEY helped to do this and now they are complaining about it?
Another thing they don't consider is the cultural work ethic has changed. People don't generally look to spend a lifetime at any job, much less an unskilled job.
But let's by all means blame it all on Reagan. They can't even see how in some cases where even good policies changed the economic dynamic in this country, nor can they see how their own dirty little fingers helped shaped the America they seem so sullen about today.