Wow. My dearly departed parents, my Dad a WWII vet, called themselves the “working poor.” Now my highly educated and well employed husband and me, also highly educated and working “below my level” with four kids, two of whom graduated college and working in their fields, one in college and one about to attend college, are struggling. Medical, college debt, taxes, etc. My give a damn button is stuck. I don’t give a damn about 3rd world countries or the welfare poor in this country. I’m tired of paying for everyone else.
And I was raised in a family that wouldn’t take anything from the government. How our values have shifted.
Well said.
The US today isn't the country we grew up in. My parents families had to make ends meet during the depression. My mother picked and sold wild blueberries, cleaned houses, as the youngest of four sisters wore patched together hand-me-downs. My dad after the Army did what all guys did....worked at jobs that got him by until he found his niche. There was always a way to make enough money to get by, until "government help" and manipulations came along.
And about the US getting out of this quagmire? I don't see it.