In the time of the Baby Boomers, a guy with a HS diploma could get a good job, buy a house, raise a family of multiple children, and save for a nice retirement. All on one income.
Society decided to change the rules. The money got devalued, manufacturing got off-shored, regulations screwed up real estate (and everything else) and women were told that they had to be just like men and sacrifice everything for a job.
Now we have people with two incomes who can barely make ends meet and have decided that they cannot afford children, and will never buy a house. The American Dream isn’t there for them anymore.
Typical Baby Boomer advice to young people: “Stop buying coffee at Starbucks. If you do that, you can have the American Dream back.”
“”””In the time of the Baby Boomers, a guy with a HS diploma could get a good job, buy a house, raise a family of multiple children, and save for a nice retirement. All on one income.””””
The JFK immigration changes passed in 1965 killed that America, a never ending flow of millions and millions, and millions, and millions, of low bidders for jobs killed the wages and the newcomers drove the Americans out of the workplace with hostility and cold shoulders and language barriers, and employers and homeowners who preferred the more controllable peasant peoples from the 3rd world and Mexico.
By the way, that wasn’t the time of the boomers.