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In reply to the discussion: This, my friends, is far too typical for my generation. [View all]Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)I voted for Carter, too, and never bought the whole Reagan "program"-I knew that was going to end disastrously and it did.
As a person in education, I am finding it harder to keep repeating the mantra about "more education=great jobs" when I see a lot of very educated people working in minimum wage jobs (and no doubt trying to pay off student loans).
We are truly all in the same (leaky) boat right now. We need to band together.
I have no children nor grandchildren. But I try to be kind to those folks who are the age that they 'would be'.
I marvel at TV shows and movies that show folks living on a secretary's salary, let's say, and having an apartment and nice clothes! I realize it's TV/a movie, but I know when I was born, my folks could afford: me, a new car, a new house-on ONE salary. You can't really afford that on TWO salaries nowadays. Something is not right. I don't have to be an economist to figure that out.
Take care Laelth, and all GenX folks.