We need to look at the relative costs of course. NYC is not Nebraska. If we forget the left and right show for a moment, do kids these days (I'm middle aged) really have a fair swing?
A Generation Of Sociopaths: How The Baby Boomers Betrayed America
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We need to look at the relative costs of course. NYC is not Nebraska. If we forget the left and right show for a moment, do kids these days (I'm middle aged) really have a fair swing?
No, and one reason is the complete failure of the educational system. They are not properly prepared. They have also been told that a college education is mandatory for success and that just isn't true. And we cannot discount the impact of the participation trophy philosophy. That fosters weakness down the road. And yes, the boardroom boyz have raped the real economy and the disparity in wages is absurd.
How old are you?
There is also the demographic change. Antibiotics particularly but also other medicine produced a spectacularly healthy generation who will live longer in larger numbers.
Pain teaches lessons about compassion, loss of siblings, diseases (e.g. ulcers etc. who has an ulcer now?) gave the Great generation and the thousands of generations before before some perspective on suffering.
When humans don't have real problems, humans make them up and a lot of the left/right show is a part of this I feel.
The money that got sucked up to the 1% is going to stay with them until they start to die off around 2030 (ish). This is a new thing.
Early 50s
You can't nail down a single number? Why?
Security. There are mad people out there Tom B. Early 50s.
Security. You claimed to make 50k the other day; but, you are concerned about security if you state your age. BTW, if you are 53+, you are in the boomer age bracket.
I would also like to address the possibility of younger people getting screwed out of social security. First, if you had asked me at age 30 if I thought I'd ever collect a SS check I'd have laughed and said no, yet here I am with money deposited in my bank every month, so who the hell knows where it goes in the future. What I do know is that any short fall is entirely due to the 2nd greatest financial heist ever pulled off. Congress stole all the money through the general fund scam. While this scam was originated under a democratic administration, the republicans were only too eager to get their greedy hands on it. Now we're told the fund is going broke and benefits may have to be cut and the eligibility age increased. Lets be clear. Had our criminally corrupt congress not embezzled all the money, we could be INCREASING benefits and LOWERING the eligibility age. As I keep harping on, congress is, was, and will continue to be the main source of all our problems.
I don’t think these guys can handle indexing.
You make an interesting point there.
The baby boomer generation has no problem making their kids work for less and putting the burden of government funding on them either. Which is completely ironic considering American worker productivity has never been higher but their bosses aren’t profit sharing with the workers.
In truth I don’t think they truly ever understood what they were getting with trickle down anyway. They were sold voodoo economics and now we have a giant mess where people think it is against their religion to tax the wealthy fairly.