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In reply to the discussion: This, my friends, is far too typical for my generation. [View all]Laelth
(32,017 posts)230. My pleasure. n/t
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As a boomer, I can appreciate what you're writing. Too many of us don't get it ....
Scuba
Dec 2013
#1
used to be, you could have a single breadwinner in a family with just a high school eucation, and be
dionysus
Dec 2013
#6
You're preaching to the wrong folk, cuz most of us here despised Reagan
struggle4progress
Dec 2013
#2
OK. Where I come from, "I don't blame you for ..." means "I know you did that but I understand why"
struggle4progress
Dec 2013
#36
I certainly appreciate the fact that you fought against Reagan and supply-side economics.
Laelth
Dec 2013
#63
My experience of politics is that often one must choose between doing the work and
struggle4progress
Dec 2013
#75
It's just advice about a certain style of political work, that "choose between doing the work
struggle4progress
Dec 2013
#194
I earned my PhD in math years ago, then taught for years, so I guess I've met lots of 13ers.
struggle4progress
Dec 2013
#132
Did you also spend the Carter years and the Clinton years fighting supply side economics?
merrily
Dec 2013
#255
IIRC I spent some of the Carter years blaming everybody older than me for fucking everything up
struggle4progress
Dec 2013
#256
I agree. Reagan was just a harder turn right. I remember during the 80's discussing how long it
adirondacker
Dec 2013
#312
Correct. I would never vote for Reagan, and btw, my greatest generation parents HATED him!
whathehell
Dec 2013
#83
Boomers were about 30% "Hippie", 40% "Nixon Youth", 30% "Centrist" in the late 60s.
jeff47
Dec 2013
#174
Yep, but even then, what was considered "centrist" was a lot more liberal than what it is now..
whathehell
Dec 2013
#200
ROTC saw a resurgence after most other sources of Federal financial aid
Lydia Leftcoast
Dec 2013
#327
Telling a story about your husband isn't "first hand experience". It's second hand.
JBoy
Dec 2013
#67
Your whole story is what is doubtful. There is a SURPLUS of computer scientists
pnwmom
Dec 2013
#267
depends on the area. a college friend of mine had a degree in mechanical engineering but ended up
dionysus
Dec 2013
#8
Your compassion and sensitivity are a beacon to those of us lost in the wilderness.
Orrex
Dec 2013
#18
Maybe for clarity you could post the specifics of the job your husband is offering?
Maedhros
Dec 2013
#237
My advise to you is to stop trying to reason with under the bridge dwellers. It'll
Guy Whitey Corngood
Dec 2013
#114
Maybe you should go give your husband some libertarian boot-strappy advice about
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2013
#286
you gave YOUR anecdote… now others are giving theirs. and they do not jibe.
nashville_brook
Dec 2013
#81
You want to know why? Post the details, we have a cadre of engineers that
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2013
#214
Engineering jobs tend to be centered in specific city areas. And engineering degrees are expensive.
haele
Dec 2013
#422
Pissed her hubby isn't allowed to have indentured servants instead of employees.
Ikonoklast
Dec 2013
#157
Exactly. And I'll never understand why some people seem to think relocation is just no big deal
kcr
Dec 2013
#35
EVERYTHING has changed since the Sixties..Even the minimum wage was worth Three Dollars more in
whathehell
Dec 2013
#103
It certainly does, and this has been going on since the mid-nineties, at least.
whathehell
Dec 2013
#296
You betcha...He didn't start it, but he continued it with no problems...As Michael Moore has said,
whathehell
Dec 2013
#330
Additionally, assuming that you can sell your existing house in an economically depressed area...
Blanks
Dec 2013
#236
My field assumes up front anyone entering it will move several times a year. It's a bit annoying. nt
Posteritatis
Dec 2013
#239
Or they could just borrow $20,000 from mom and dad to start a business, right?
last1standing
Dec 2013
#99
I'll go further to say that her language is right out of the "Entitled Republican" playbook.
last1standing
Dec 2013
#124
It wasn't for my parents, thats HUGE for people. Family infrastructure makes SO Much of a difference
uponit7771
Dec 2013
#112
I'd guess over half of the boomers have had their own careers decimated while
elehhhhna
Dec 2013
#26
In my own time and on a few occasions, I have chosen love over money in my life.
Laelth
Dec 2013
#328
I am a Boomer who joined DU today (after lurking here daily for years) to reply to you....
zed nada
Dec 2013
#55
In the 80's I worked with guys that are now retired or were and have since passed away that
brewens
Dec 2013
#88
Good points but I think it can get better if government played a better role than that of bystander.
randome
Dec 2013
#149
I hear you about the infrastructure. Ours used to be the best. Now, not so much.
Laelth
Dec 2013
#342
That means I have fewer people to compete against for reasonably well-paying jobs.
Laelth
Dec 2013
#145
AMEN!!! My wife and I talked about this very thing this week. That OUR generation has to do things..
uponit7771
Dec 2013
#108
The problem is the idea that simply creating a whole bunch more exotic degrees
lumberjack_jeff
Dec 2013
#135
The OP illustrates one of the many reasons why it DOES NOT MAKE SENSE to ...
Martin Eden
Dec 2013
#140
Hang in there, kids! Times like this have happened before, just not as bad.
raging moderate
Dec 2013
#169
I'm Gen X (also with PhD) and almost everyone I know with a PhD has a decent job
aikoaiko
Dec 2013
#224
My stepdaughter is just finishing up her degree in microbiology and immediately after is
1monster
Dec 2013
#232
20 years ago was better than this, 30 years ago was just as bad (early boomer)
diane in sf
Dec 2013
#240
Well, it seems a Boomer like Garry Trudeau understands. But then, I'm not sure most understand....
Moonwalk
Dec 2013
#266
Really? You need older people to fight? Do honestly believe that the majority of boomers have
Luminous Animal
Dec 2013
#389
"Boomers lack a frame of reference to understand how much harder it is to live in this world now."
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2013
#283
Boomer here - that not having a frame of reference? Bullshit. Born in 46, got one pair of shoes
djean111
Dec 2013
#302
Meanwhile we have overpaid assholes on TV telling us we don't deserve what we have.
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2013
#341
I am so sorry - I didn't mean to reply to your post - my life as a Boomer likely was
djean111
Dec 2013
#325
A LOT of us boomers were the product of the flood of divorces in the 60s and 70s...
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2013
#340
In California apartments that used to go for $350 a month shoot up to $1,100 in 15 years....
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2013
#359
The joblessness of those who have very good educations is very rarely discussed
truedelphi
Dec 2013
#355
You might as well be yelling this into a wishing well. If the Boomers were capable of
jtuck004
Dec 2013
#415
Just look around. We can't get enough debt, yet it is the very thing that is killing us.
jtuck004
Dec 2013
#417