[silverleaf]

What bunk.

A couple (HS grads) in our community became wealthy by starting their own business scooping up dog poop. The hours are theirs to choose depending on how much money they want to make. Now they are looking to hire an employee. Business is "picking up"!

Some people just don't "get it"- that one of the evolutions of American freedom is the freedom to stop punching a clock and work for yourself.

Take a business class or two some day and learn about some of the entrepreneurs who started what you now deride as big corporations. And meet some of this generation's budding entrepreneurs... walking down a street and see whose business lights are the first on and last off every day. Or pull up a web page for any product or service you could desire.

This is why many (ambitious) people do NOT aspire to the types of jobs considered "middle class" some 50 years ago. And by the way- they are present in every society, not just in America- but the playing field is much more level and lucrative here.

The minimum wage workers who immigrated here 5 years ago are already becoming Mom-and-Pop cleaning and landscaping services, homeowners and potential real estate investors.

[Check6]

The America we are entering will have two types of people: those with "significant holdings", who walk their dogs and eat when they please, and those without, who will spend their life picking up dog dirt for ... and serving meals to ...those with "significant holdings". My America was different, and I feel for the "have-nots", from whom the American dream has been taken.