Johnny Tremain
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It is too bad more Americans did not KNOW that liberalism killed Detroit. It might wake them up to the horrendous consequences of this childish and foolish ideology.
I would like to home to Detroit. Only it would have to be the Detroit I knew as a child.
it would have to be the Detroit I knew as a child.
I think we have found ourselves in a global economy. It's going to take some doing to figure out how we can have jobs for everyone that pays them enough to live in a country that costs so much.
My dad was a middle class blue collar worker that has had a good life on what he made. Never went into debt and saved for a nice retirement and wasn't in a union. My mom didn't have to work. I think those days have long passed us.
^good post.
I was thinking more about if you were a young person, just starting out on your own, what would it cost you to do it? And, how much would you have to make, just to afford rent, food, transportation, insurance, clothes - just the basics.
I think people's expectations for wealth and materialism are exceeding their abilities very quickly.
Our folks--back in the day--pinched a nickel until the buffalo pooped for no other reason than they were careful about the future not being a "sure thing".
Nowadays we all--I have done the same--just fill our homes with crap we buy and play with or look at for three days--then go out and repeat the process.
China makes more crap than even a Roman Emperor could consume--and we buy it all because it is cheap--relatively.
Saving anything is discouraged now (look at the savings interest rate on CDs at banks now) and we are pushed to spend to bolster the economy.
It is a futile and pointless endeavor--that ends in collapse.
It's really a Ponzi scheme.