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Puzzledtraveller

(5,937 posts) Tue Dec 13, 2011, 12:31 PM Dec 2011

CNN Poll: Are you better off than your parents? [View all]

Yes60% 73398

No40% 49072

I see this and I see OWS. I know there are all ages and socio economic backgrounds that make up our 99% save for the 1% that are easily identifiable in terms of economis disparity. But, 60% think they are better off. Either that 60% parents were more economically depressed then than they are now, or there parents were well off then and they are even better off than their parents now.

So I wonder. Are we really 99% or we the bottom 1/3? (sorry math is not my strong point) because I am nowhere near where my parents were at my age and not from lack of trying and playing by the rules. Makes me think that there is some liberal elite that is as out of touch with the plight of the rest of us the 1%.

I don't know, just a little irritated. Perhaps I'm seeing this wrong. I fear, and greatly, that I will never have the life my parents worked hard to provide me.

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CNN Poll: Are you better off than your parents? [View all] Puzzledtraveller Dec 2011 OP

Why does being better off than your parents mean that you're not part of the 99%? Brickbat Dec 2011 #1

Exactly tularetom Dec 2011 #8

I assume the poll includes EVERYONE CJCRANE Dec 2011 #2

Very true! intheflow Dec 2011 #14

I am nowhere near as well off as my parents Coyote_Bandit Dec 2011 #3

If you were self-employed today, you would have to compete with huge corporations. JDPriestly Dec 2011 #12

I'm a pre-boomer. When my father was my age marybourg Dec 2011 #4

In some way yes and in some ways no Cigar11 Dec 2011 #5

In what sense, Charlie? frazzled Dec 2011 #6

lots of wishful thinking SixthSense Dec 2011 #7

Plain lucky, then. Not exceptional. MissB Dec 2011 #16

As a baby boomer plcdude Dec 2011 #9

Yes I am better off. But that isn't saying much. rox63 Dec 2011 #10

I make more money than my mother ever did but it buys little improvement in quality of life TheKentuckian Dec 2011 #11

Not Even Close RobinA Dec 2011 #13

Yes, but only because I qualify for SSI and Section 8 because of my Asperger's. Odin2005 Dec 2011 #15

I guess the first question would be if they are still alive or not snooper2 Dec 2011 #17

CNN polls aren't scientific. nt Romulox Dec 2011 #18

This message was self-deleted by its author Obamanaut Dec 2011 #19

I'm much better off FreeJoe Dec 2011 #20

no, and i am a boomer shanti Dec 2011 #21

It's kind of a silly, irrelevant question. saras Dec 2011 #22

I think a lot of those Yes respondents have based their decision on access to technology. MilesColtrane Dec 2011 #23

Nope Autumn Colors Dec 2011 #24