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In reply to the discussion: This, my friends, is far too typical for my generation. [View all]raging moderate
(4,276 posts)We had some times like this back in the 80s. I was on WIC with a master's degree in a clinical field. We knew people with phDs who had to wait on tables. We also knew young rich pipsqueak partyboys who were being paid $70,000 to "work" in Daddy's auto sales business while their hardworking coevals who had worked their way through college mysteriously were not worth more than $6,000 on the so-called "free market." This time, it is worse, it is lasting longer, and the top 1% are even more bitterly determined to reduce the rest of us to the serf status they think we deserve. It is scarier this time. Of course, you you are right. You need love. We got through it, with some scars of course and a few of us with wounds that never healed. We all have to stick together and try to make things better for everybody. And loudly counter the propaganda that young people are expecting too much and the "job creators" are eager to create jobs for everybody if ONLY we would get the mean government to stop taxing them and regulating them! This is NOT what has happened when the voters fell for this malarkey before, and we MUST stand firm against this recent even more vicious form.