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To: suspects
According to the National Endowment for Financial Education, 59 percent of parents said they have been or are giving money to their adult kids. About half (!) have had their kids move back in with them.

Let's be fair, back when "mom and dad" were starting out, they has something called "Job Security". Do your job, keep your nose clean; and it was reasonable to expect to retire at that job. It was reasonable that if you did your job well, you would be promoted because of your skills - not because of education - but because of your skills. We had folk become VP's and Presidents of companies, who had never set foot in a university. These were good folk, smart folk, who earned and worked their way to the top.

Today, what do we have? Well, we have a workplace where your job is utterly disposable, where your career can be sidetracked because some CEO 'thinks' that the profit the company earned wasn't "good enough", so he will cut entire divisions to "streamline" the next fiscal year. Short sighted business decisions and personal gain will trump a hard work by dedicated workers 100% of the time. We see entire divisions closed down and sent overseas; leaving the people who created the company broke, forced to sell their homes and hoping to get another job that paid something close to the job that they lost.

Then, we look disparagingly upon the kids who are reaping the rewards of policies that were started in motion back in the 1980's.

11 posted on 12/14/2011 7:22:43 AM PST by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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To: Hodar

Someone who gets it. Thank you.

Bravo for telling the painful truths that nobody wants to ‘fess up to.


36 posted on 12/14/2011 9:18:26 AM PST by BenKenobi (Honkeys for Herman! 10 percent is enough for God; 9 percent is enough for government)
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