OK, boomers; look at what we've left for our grandkids

[cksmithy]

21. In 1970, the minimum

wage, when I was looking for work, was $1.76 which would equal $13.44 in today's dollars, lower than the current minimum wage in California, which is now $14.00 (according to the internet). In 1970, instead of taking a job as a state certified dental assistant, which I went to school for a year and passed state exams, I went to work for Pacific Bell for $91.00 as week as a telephone operator, (38.5 hours) which as a union job was a whole lot more than minimum wage. Also, walked in a picket line while we went on strike in my first year. My husband was making $2.00 and hour and Nixon had a wage freeze for two years. We were not rich, working class but could feed ourselves and pay rent. I really didn't know anybody who voted for Reagan as Governor and certainly not at president. Boomers are not all from the same year, I was born in 1951, to vote in Reagan as president, your birth date has to be at least 1961-1962. I certainly didn't vote for Reagan or any republican. Marched in the November 15, 1969 anti war demonstration in San Francisco. I know I didn't cause it, I think it has more to do with the "Greed is Good" philosophy of the 1980's. Anyways, anyhow, that's what I know for myself. The people around me and myself (not necessarily my family) tried to makes things better. I am so distraught with climate change, crazies being elected, the cost of a good higher education, I truly worry for the future.