How far will we fall before we remember the lessons of history?
I’m not sure why but for some reason, my four children seem to be OK. But they are ages 28, 26, 23, and 18 the 28th and 23 year-old are married with children. They both have homes. The 20 six-year-old isn’t married but does work for Schwab so has a good job 18 year-old is going to college in August.
I guess my point is their friends are really struggling. As not just one or two it’s multitude of them.
I just find if that’s the norm then I don’t know what the country is gonna do.
People can’t struggle forever. My kids just lucked out, but it seems many are not getting lucky at all.
Envy is one helluva drug. It will get worse before it gets better I fear, unless we have one big national revival.
Redo. Auto correct sucks!
I’m not sure why but for some reason, my four children seem to be OK. But they are ages 28, 26, 23, and 18. Our 28 and 23 year-old are married with children. They both have homes. The 26-year-old isn’t married but does work for Schwab so has a good job. 18 year-old is going to college in August.
I guess my point is their friends are really struggling. And not just one or two it’s multiples of them.
I just find if that’s the norm, then I don’t know what the country is gonna do.
People can’t struggle forever. My kids just lucked out, but it seems many young adults are not getting lucky at all.
Citizens, businesses and money are mobile, and the comparative successes and failures of competing economic systems across the nation will be hopefully stark enough to continually remind the blue-state voting population of their mistakes. At least that's the optimist's viewpoint.
However, should socialism give way to communists in power at the national level, and the Constitutional protections fall one by one, at that point we have the option of secession and the seeds of civil war.
In the past when socialism or communism took over, it was due to people being poor and starving. They were reaching out for what they thought would help them. Today, people are fat and lazy and reaching out to what they think will keep them that way.
The good thing about this time is that we only have it in places like NY so far. Hopefully, others will see the businesses and rich people flee those states as well as the crumbling of those areas and will realize how bad it can get.
Several years ago I was discussing socialism with a person and couldn't convince him it won't work. Finally I had enough and told him, "You convinced me. I need a new house, new car, big truck, steak, lobster, etc. and I am too old and lazy to work for them so you better get busy making all that for me." That was the end of our discussion.