Oh, it didn't. But, it did start accelerating more rapidly back then. Actually, mid 60's. Vietnam was the primary catalyst.
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EACH generation has in their own way contributed to the current situation. EACH subsequent generation has had opportunities to improve or further fuck stuff up. For fucks sake move on to more boob pics.
You're pretty good at name calling online, that takes a lot of courage
. I was born in 1970, so Gen X I guess. My mom and dad had 8 kids. My dad was a master electrician. I started going to work with him at age 8, wiring outlets in new homes for free. I never finished high school, got a GED years later. Worked my entire life, full time jobs plus some side hustle or another. My wife and I have 8 kids also, never had any toys. We struggled for years and am still struggling. We just built a new home, single level slab on grade with MIL apt for my parents to live in so we can give them the constant care they need. My wife doesn't work so she can raise (hopefully) decent kids and take care of my parents. I still work 50 to 70 hours a week and we struggle to make the house payment, it's a terrible time to build. My point is, I've sacrificed my whole life to make ends meet and wouldn't trade any of it for all the toys in the world. Our largest TV is 32". No 4 wheelers, fancy cars, gaming computers, etc., one .22 handgun for fun with my boys. I have a 2000 LeSabre and a 2002 Sierra. I've always voted Republican. People say they can't afford a house and feel justified in blaming the previous generation without considering how hard we work and how much we sacrifice to get where we have gotten, expecting to have it handed to them on a silver platter instead.
So, yeah, until you've done this for as many decades as I have, you can pull your lower lip over your head and swallow.
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Something has to make this shit stop, I’m almost ready to go back to bicycles!
Minimum of 12,000 Horsepower, or you're a loser........
Holy shit...all the boomers in here sure are getting riled up because they are finally being held accountable for the first time in their lives...
Man, y'all are so happy seeing your kids and grandkids struggle with the world you left them.....no wonder they don't visit you
My parents are Boomers. So that makes me Gen X. Through working eight days a week, and working more than one job for decades, my station in life is higher than my parents ever thought I would get to. I've sacrificed my time, my money, and my health at times to continue to improve my situation. I was willing to live like some would not, so that later I could live like most cannot. Life is chess, it ain't checkers.
Blaming any generation for your own problems is plain chicken shit! Your successes and failures fall on your own shoulders. No one else's.
If everyone truly believed and lived that out, can you imagine how much better as a country we would be right now? And the amount of respect we would have for one another? And the utter nonsense that would be non-existent would be legion.
Exactly.
Congratulations on your success, no one else did it for you. Your parents may have planted the seed (so to speak), but YOU DID IT !
And they say you can't smell a picture.
i don't know if poetic is the right word, but that is pretty powerful right there! put in the work, get the rewards.
You’re a pussy blaming others for your own problems. Too bad your mom didn’t swallow.
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Speaking of your mom:
so those thingies sticking up are some sort of sight alignment tool, and the blue tape blocks the gas port for flatter recoil?
You have NO failures? None at all? That's either bullshit or you haven't taken any real chances in life.
Which generation's fault?
Thought that this deserved its own thread. Peak boomer here. Historically, republics seem to devolve to oligarchies in 300 years or so--typically due to bankers. So, here we are. Early financialization of the 70s culminated in the repeal of Glass-Steagall under Clinton. Financialization took off...
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My children and grandchildren do not have to resort to renting. That would be the victim mentality you possess, and mine will not have it. I have voted since 1998, and never punched the ticket for a single Demonrat.
In 2002 I was making $34k a year. I bought a house for $108k. It was all I could do to pay for it, and I also managed to improve it and add onto it. I bought construction text books and dove in. A 40 hour week is a part time job, as far as I'm concerned. 0600 to 2200 have been my days for as long as I can remember.
In 2013 I bought 70 acres 40 miles north east. 2015 I built a shop. 2019 and 2020 I built a house. I built them. With my own two hands. I sold that first house for triple what I had in it. If I sell where I am now, I will leave a multi-millionare. And I'm not going to apologize to a mentally weak victim like you or anyone else. Because you don't have the spine or the grit to go create it for yourself. I do however teach my children how to create it for themselves.
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Poverty in the US is almost universally the result of laziness and/or poor life choices. That's why you see millions of illegals sneaking in, instead of millions of domestic poor sneaking out.
In what other country is the main health problem of the poor obesity?
www.brookings.edu
In what other country is the main health problem of the poor obesity?
Three Simple Rules Poor Teens Should Follow to Join the Middle Class
Ron Haskins explains research indicating that young people should fulfill three major responsibilities to substantially improve their chances of avoiding poverty and entering the middle class: at least finish high school, get a full-time job and wait until age 21 to get married and have children.
www.brookings.edu
I am not going to call that color "pink" but I agree.
You sum up all that's wrong with much of society. It's called working hard. I was brought up on a poor council housing estate in the UK, I have worked hard, I have a nice house, cars, nice watches, firearms, go on one nice holiday per year and a few weekend breaks in the year, etc. I don't have as much wealth as some, but I have more than others, however, I won't apologise for studying/working hard, that's the problem with many these days, they want but won't work for it.
As long as everyone is choosing, I'll take the one on the front left..........
