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Lunacee_2013

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18. Yeah, I've seen older ppl

Tue May 28, 2013, 04:02 PM

May 2013

who have followed the rules all their lives face one illness or accident and then suddenly lose everything. Some even lost their life savings because of someone else's (wall street) greed. It's not just young ppl who have to move back in with their parents after college, or grandma moving in with her son/daughter after a stroke, it's ppl in their 40's or 50's who have no money and no job aspects (because companies want young workers who somehow also have experience, which is just too bad for some of us) who have to choose between homelessness or moving in with their adult children.

It's like what's the point of going to college and buying a house if you're just gonna wind up living back at home and in deep debt?

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Get Apocalyptic: Why Radical is the New Normal [View all] marmar May 2013 OP

"Anxiety is rational and anguish is healthy" marions ghost May 2013 #1

My 23 year old daughter was telling me the exact same thing last night. Kath1 May 2013 #2

Kudos to your daughter and her friends........ socialist_n_TN May 2013 #3

Thanks! Kath1 May 2013 #4

"Let's hope they all make a difference"..... socialist_n_TN May 2013 #5

I took my then 14 year old daughter to the March For Women's Lives in 2004. Kath1 May 2013 #13

Interesting Trotsky reference. calimary May 2013 #28

I'm just a couple of years older than your daughter and Lunacee_2013 May 2013 #16

I think a lot of young people are really questioning capitalism these days. Kath1 May 2013 #17

Yeah, I've seen older ppl Lunacee_2013 May 2013 #18

Folks it's not hyperbole to say socialism or barbarism..... socialist_n_TN May 2013 #26

Welcome to DU, Lunacee_2013! calimary May 2013 #29

But, it's so much more pleasant and far easier to live in a fantasy world. n/t Egalitarian Thug May 2013 #6

Not necessarily. Sometimes, fantasies are far scarier than reality. AverageJoe90 May 2013 #12

Pills? They got pills for this? RobertEarl May 2013 #7

Yeah, they have pills for the Second Law of Thermodynamics now? GliderGuider May 2013 #15

The reference was to this line in the OP RobertEarl May 2013 #19

Yeah, bored. That would be it. GliderGuider May 2013 #21

Thanks for a great article felix_numinous May 2013 #8

K&R Eventually people with a strong streak of liberalism find they have no other choice. nt raouldukelives May 2013 #9

On the other hand, 50 years from now... bhikkhu May 2013 #10

There is a small amount of truth here, but otherwise..... AverageJoe90 May 2013 #11

The planet is smoking RobertEarl May 2013 #20

I am, but this talk of apocalypse does us no good. AverageJoe90 May 2013 #22

You just don't get it, do you? RobertEarl May 2013 #23

"All the nice gentle scientists agree." Really? AverageJoe90 May 2013 #24

Dude RobertEarl May 2013 #25

Nobody denies that there's a crisis, TBH. AverageJoe90 May 2013 #27

Not bad, as far as it goes. GliderGuider May 2013 #14