10 Things getting out of reach for the Middle Class

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3. What a sad list.

Vacations? New cars? Meh. But emergency & retirement savings, medical & dental care, child care? What good is a national defense budget if you don't also care for your citizens? Our government should provide the following:

basic guaranteed income to cover three hots & a cot
free healthcare
free education K-college
free child/elder care
a comprehensive public transportation system

Anything less is not civilized.

My rwnj relations like to post an image of a blank writing pad with the words: This is everything you were promised when you came into this world. I told them we pool our resources & work together so it doesn't have to be that way, & I remind them that they grew up in America at a time when we had quality public education K-12, state colleges that didn't take six figures to earn your degree, publicly owned hospitals where an appendectomy didn't break you for life, a highway system that wasn't outdated, national parks that were maintained & had reasonable rates, & on & on. They are Breitbart/Fox addled & believe that they pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps, & that brown people are getting a free ride. But hey, they're not racists.