Posted on 10/07/2022 8:03:41 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
We all know it in our hearts to be true: It’s all down hill from here.
Well, at least half of us do anyway. When it comes to the aspiration of upward mobility, 46% of Americans say that it’s harder now to achieve a good standard of living than it was for their parents, according to a study from the University of Chicago and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
The consensus among the more than 1,000 adults ages 18 and older was that a good standard of living is still important: Americans generally across the board value being able to pursue passions, own a home, raise a family, and have a successful career.
For all the rebukes of hustle culture and the old school American Dream that have surfaced in the wake of the pandemic, the ability to actually achieve those goals has been depressed over generations.
(Excerpt) Read more at fortune.com ...
Yeah but no more mean tweets.
And who did this 46% vote for?
They’re right sadly. Saddled with 31 trillion? These crooks have destroyed America’s future. Anyone remember when there was a surplus? Reagan, Bush and part of Clinton?
The American dream is not for Americans.
It’s only for Dreamers.
Let’s face it: almost every generation thinks this. And sometimes its true.
A result of giving idiots diplomas that are not worth the paper they’re printed on.
Thank the substitute parents in NEA classrooms nationwide.
They are not wrong. Their elders are trying to kill them, after all.
STUDY: College students more likely to be injured by COVID booster mandates than virus itself
Before that.
Reagan ended with $2.7 trillion in federal debt, $14 trillion in TCMDO (Total Credit Market Debt Outstanding), and a GDP of $5.3 trillion. Overall, a good position.
To see how healthy an economy is, multiply the GDP by 3.6. If that number is lower than the TCMDO, the economy is good.
If higher than the TCMDO, you are in recession/depression territory.
Compare that to today. A GDP of $22T and a TCMDO of $90T. In other words, we’re screwed.
“The American Dream is dying as younger people believe it’s only downhill from here”
I’m sure a lot of retired people and the elderly are feeling the same. to work your entire life to save money for your “Golden”years only to see an incompetent idiot go out and destroy everything you have done.
I hope that Rat bastards Party go’s down in flames election night.
Yet ambitious foreigners can come here, work hard, and in 20 years
they are living a good life, in a big house, with kids and a happy family.
When my parents were young, a house cost $8,000-$10,000. When I bought my first house it cost $83,000. Now a house cost $350,000 in the same neighborhood. Rent is so high that it is nearly impossible to save for a house and mortgage rates are making a house unaffordable. It’s tough today.
Granite covered dining halls. Big loans for queer theory degrees. Big loans for rewriting history to be the 1619 model instead of actually learning what history actually was.
Big loans for climate change hoax degrees....
Shall I go on?
When the price of houses increased by three to five hundred percent, while wages went stagnant, essentially a chasm was created between the haves and the forever have nots.
Throw in inflation on all of life’s necessities and we are in an unchangeable socialist environment. . .
the “GimmeDat” society ruined America!
“The American dream is not for Americans.“
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That statement would make a good tag line.
No national repentance, then America gets what it richly deserves. The sooner the better.
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