Posted on 06/15/2015 12:22:04 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Your post is spot on. I, like you worked hard on my homework while my friends played Capture the Flag every evening. I did not realize it then but I was differentiating my future from theirs.
We all had bare subsistence housing back then but now I guess I am one of those who lives retired in a golfing community and working part time if I feel like it. BTW, paid for our son to get a degree without debt.
When I was earning mine I was doubling up on my credit hours, taking 20 to 22 every term. I would wake up almost every morning wondering if I was going to make it but I finally did. I sometimes wondered if I should have just quit and gone back into the Air force as an NCO. It would have been the easy way out but I stayed in school.
Three things: 1) his dad’s hard work ethic; 2) his mom’s Christianity; and 3) his own imagination that he got from constantly watching movies and reading. I’m convinced he was as much an intellectual as any college prof. He constantly read and had a very active life of the mind, writing his own plays and acting in them when just a young teenager. He watched movies constantly, and read very difficult books.
I am the late Boomer kid, as is my husband. We did BETTER under Reagan & has policies. That all went to trash once the Left took over. I was a potter-sculptor, making extra money while being (the most important job in the world- a Mother & housewife). I made good money then. Once the Left took over, people started to not have extra income to buy handmade items. Once the craft circuit died, that was when Wally World stepped in with Cheap-Chinese-Junk. I closed my studio.
The Left slowly killed tiny home businesses. They were also the ones who said I was “inferior” for not working outside of the home and for thinking my chosen life was of any worth.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Maybe that is why they hate my kind & want to destroy those who chose to succeed with hard work, save for the future, including for a pension to make our retirements comfortable.
“Meh, people take out in benefits WAY more than they paid in. It’s a welfare program disguised as something else.”
Let me really piss you off, next year I’ll be drawing full SS and a full paycheck and plan on doing that for another 7 years until my wife is old enough to retire at 62. Hell I may just keep working as long as my health holds up. According to SS that will be another 2300 a month.
The left cannot establish their wet dream of a liberal, fascist police state until the source of any resistance, the middle class, is destroyed.
This Baby Boomer has a lot of Marine brothers on the Wall and we never thought we hit a triple. I would say more but I would get banned.
Absolutely correct!
Agriculture, mining, as much manufacturing as possible and the understanding that competition is healthy comprise the foundation of a healthy economy. Both political parties are quite socialist and have been excessively so for a very long time.
Show me one candidate for the presidency, who would lay off even a quarter of all current government employees to balance the budget and take some of the regulatory (zoning, planning, building, etc.), tax and fee weight off of new, small manufacturing shops.
There’s no effective difference between influential Democrats and Republicans in my sparsely populated, remote, Republican majority county (very large area). All of both parties are either employed by government or government-supported businesses (mostly state and local) or pensioners from government. All are NIMBYs and against any new, small competition, any new building of homes, against families, and most of all, against seeing any young men at work.
The Left are contraindicators. We’re due for an American Renaissance.
We do want to get rid of the crony capitalists, the kleptocrats and the kakocracy, but let’s not act the martinet and start a reign of terror.
The Koch’s got rich the old American way, they earned it.
If the POTUS were going to sign that into law, the VP would be running the country. The Code is the way it is to preserve the elite power. They don’t go gently into that good night.
You are in for a surprise.
believe me, we PAID....
I'm very keen to what our younger people are facing...that's why I vote conservatively and as frugally minded as I can....its why I send money to my adult kids and why I want to leave some kind of legacy to my children.
I hear you.
bttt
Pretty wretched class envy article. Pure victimization. Pure tripe.
“I’m poor because the Boomer’s stole my lifestyle. Never mind I am a lazy ass who won’t lift a finger to fund my lifestyle.”
The house at 6830 South 78th Ave is a dead ringer for our house, and about three blocks away from it.
Lots of nice small homes available here for under $150,000.
So, you’re proud of the fact that you’re both going to drain welfare money out of the government and take a job from an able-bodied younger person?
You evaded the question.
Feel free to answer it.
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