Typical Millennial bank statement

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33. Watch out! It's a TRAP!

Early 70's expenses of young boomer rural dweller, back when life was still affordable. We didn't use banks, and cashed our paychecks checks at local grocery store, and could save money by doing most everything ourselves.

10 cents coffee made at home
50 cents lunch, made at home
10 cents coffee, made at home, put in thermos
$98 land payment on 20 acres, lived in small travel trailer while building our small house, Land paid of in 5 years.
$200 materials for building house
$25 in gas for paid for old pickup truck
$0 for TV
50 cents for lunch made at home
10 cents for coffee in thermos
$0 for doctor bill, because lived close to Canada where we got cheap medical care and could easily afford to pay our primary care provider out of pocket, and presciption meds were affordable
50 cents for brunch made at home
$0 for student loan, because parents could still afford tuition

Young people can't do this anymore, except maybe in very rare instances. The problem is obvious. Reagan and the banks incrementally trapped young people into indentured servitude. People could actually live without a bank account back in the day. We watched in horror and indignation as the RW, Reagan, and financial institutions incrementally gave the private sector major control over people's lives.

Trump's fascists are "rebels" without a clue, rats in a maze they helped create for themselves, and us, by voting against their own interests. Unfortunately, they trapped subsequent generations of young people in the maze along with them, and the maze becomes more difficult to negotiate by the day.

McConnell, Republicans, Manchin, and Sinema want to keep you in the trap. That's why commercial interests support them with the big bucks. Manchin refers to helping young people receiving a leg up as getting *entitlements*, although he is the entitled one, having been born and raised as an entitled member of the ownership class.

McConnell, Republicans, Manchin, and Sinema, at the behest of their handlers, don't want millennials and older poor folks to get any help from a democratic Democratic a government of, by, and for, the people. They want to bring about a fully privatized autocratic fascist theonomy, where those who are not wealthy are born into a form of indentured servitude, where there is no real representative dmocratic government, and no hope for change.

We must come out to vote for progressive Democrats in numbers of hundreds of millions in 2024, and rid ourselves of those who wish to permanently enslave us to fascist planet killing monsters like Trump, and those legislators who receive bribes, lie, cheat, and steal to do their part in ending democracy in our country.