Posted on 06/15/2015 12:22:04 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
“By the way Social Security I paid into, dont make it sound like its a liberal given free bee.”
This is one of the most infuriating Boomer myths that are spouted by conservatives.
You didn’t pay in. You let your payments be distributed immediately to your parents, and you want your kids to pay for that choice.
Unless you are in the top five percent of income earners, or die young, you will get back more from social security than you ever paid into it. It is a free bee.
The 60s generation, they hit 1960 ranging in age from 15 to 35, they created all the music and activism.
LOL! I was born in the late 40s. Never been on a cruise. I had a '61 Chevy in college, an oil-burning deathtrap. I've never played golf. I've never lived in a gated community. I retired from the Navy, where living was spartan. The author of this piece is a Liberal idiot.
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“and weve seen the middle class more solid in places like Canada, Germany, and Scandinavia”
That was the Salon in the US. The below is the WSWS in Germany. Same story, just the names change ...
Germany: The shrinking middle class and the rise of inequality
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2008/03/germ-m22.html
‘the Reagan Revolution was pulling the rug out from under the middle class’
The left doesn’t understand the concept of ‘creating value’ thus creating REAL wealth. They believe stealing from each other is a viable alternative.
Reagan and Thatcher told us the party would end when you ran ‘out of other people’s money’. Well, here it is.
There’s a reason that private unions have gone the way of the doo-doo bird. You cannot fiscally support more retirees than you have workers. Epic FAIL.
Tell ya what: refund the money I've paid into FICA over the past 40 years, and I'll take care of myself and my family.
Over the past ten years alone, the amount confiscated from my employers and me is nearly $150,000, with no compounding.
The left have always wanted to destroy the bourgeoisie, especially the rural bourgeoisie, the kulaks.
.......Venezuelas housing shortage has doubled since former President Hugo Chavezs wealth redistribution policies 15 years ago. The governments new housing law is an effort to reverse that trend, by forcing landlords to sell apartment units to long-time tenants. Martin Markovits explores how Venezuelans are reacting.
For people like Maria Galvis , the new law is a dream come true. Due to her modest salary as a hairdresser she has never been able to buy the apartment she has been living in for more than 20 years. But now, thanks to a new law, she will finally get that chance.
This new housing law, sponsored by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, seeks to address Venezuelas chronic housing shortages. Residential realtors estimate the country has a deficit of about five million homes. And while the government recently launched a massive public housing program, it has not been enough.
This newly enacted law forces homeowners who own more than three properties to sell to tenants who have been living there for more than 20 years -and at government-regulated prices. Supporters say this seeks to bring justice to tenants who, they say, have long been charged high prices for apartments and this law will only impact big property owners.
But critics of the law say it is an attack on private property rights and another example of the Maduro socialist government heavy-handed approach to the economy.
Landlords will be given just 60 days to offer eligible tenants a chance to buy the property at a price, determined by the government, that most expect will be lower than market value.
The government says landowners who dont comply with the new law may be hit with a fine of more than 40-thousand dollars and could lose their homes.
http://www.cctv-america.com/2014/04/09/new-venezuelan-law-attempts-to-tackle-housing-shortage
All true. However, I do have some concerns. For us Gen X'ers (in our 30's and 40's) who started out following the example of Baby Boomers by educating ourselves and establishing a career with a firm only to find ourselves priced out of the labor market with offshoring, H1-B's or those priced out of the trades via illegal labor, what is the remedy?
Can someone in their mid-30s, trained to manage dozens of employees be retrained for employment in the trades? Would the trades accept such a person?
It would appear that the "right" degree is a STEM degree, according to FR. Can the same individual, educated and trained in business become an electrical engineer?
As we have seen, it only takes one Ronald Reagan to turn garbage into jewels. I’m loving writing Reagan’s biography. Every part of his life is inspiring.
Articles like these claiming the demise of the middle class are just wishful thinking on the part of progressives.
I’m a boomer with three grown children and they are doing just fine.
The people I work with mostly are younger than me and they aren’t boomers and they are also doing fine. Right on track with where I was at their age.
Getting a EE degree nearly burned me out and I was a teenager / early 20 something. They say it is the hardest degree to get.
Well, if you're talking about a few of my wife's stoner cousins that looks like the right size of shoe.
What inspired Ronald Reagan?
What happened is the hippies happened. Just undo their narcissistic nonsense, stop listening to them, electing them, and you’ll go a long way toward getting back on track IMHO.
Wrong again. We have 300 years of coal and 500 years of oil/natural gas. The only depletion going on is in your head.
Valid points. I ended up working in presentations centers of investment banks. Indians think it is beneath them and never knew I was making more than them in tech :)
trying times for a manager, you are right.
Socialists/liberals destroy the middle class while pinning the blame on conservatives. Classic marxist maneuver.
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