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Originally Posted by David
This is the crux. The Baby Boomers -- who are now reaching retirement age -- are the last generation to be better off than the generation before them. That used to be one thing you could count on in the United States: great-grandparents expected their children to be better off, & they were; & grandparents expected their children to be better off, & they were. But the parents of people in their 20s & 30s today are generally better off than their children. We're in the middle of the first American generation ever to have moved permanently backward.
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If we were still a country that was fully a Republic, I doubt that this would've happened...once we became this subversive Facist state, and a Republic in name only, not in practice, the whole place took a spin down the proverbial toilet bowl.
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