Hasaf wrote: Mon Aug 29, 2022 7:15 pm
One of the uniquenesses of this is that it is a change in what has been a unique characteristic of "modern" America. By that, most transfers in most XenX'ers living memory, aware or not, have been the transfer of wealth from the young to the old. This is not the way it has always been. In fact, the early boomers were able to take advantage of transfers to the young, when they were positioned to tasks advantage of it.
This is not only in the provision of good, well-funded schools but also in, what we now see as, "Cadillac" health insurance plans for many. Then came the Clinton/Gingrich welfare reform. I remain amazed by the number of people who express their opinions on social programmes yet are entirely ignorant of changes made twenty-five years ago.
This has been a shake to a generation that has lived their lives under the base assumption that everything should go to them.
Sorry if I am a bit off today, quite literally, my English Bulldog died this morning. His unrelenting love and happiness carried me past . . . a very hard point.
My heart felt condolences to you and the loss of your friend...indeed piece of your soul...
I know your pain.
The "greatest generation" is I believe the first where opportunity met a level playing field amongst the classes. My grand parents were impoverished. But not for the GI Bill, my parent's would never have had the opportunity to attend college. Being a boomer I was afforded a level of food security that no generation before me had enjoyed. I never knew hunger. My parent's could not say that.
I think that to a large extent my generation has squandered the affluence of the latter part of the 20th century. We took it for granted. And wasted it. Among much of my children's generation the thought of ever achieving something akin to the security is considered delusional.
A $10k credit toward a staggering debt generated attending a for profit college is almost like offering a person drowning in the ocean a glass of fresh water. They might appreciate having something other than salt water to drink, but would probably prefer to get it themselves after being tossed a life preserver.
Subliterate Buffooery of the right...
Literate Ignorance of the left...
We Are So Screwed