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TBF

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13. Thanks to Petrus as well :)
Wed Mar 13, 2013, 10:55 AM
Mar 2013

We see this a lot as well. We feel like the poor relatives when we go to colleagues' houses. Many of the folks who have gone to medical/law/business school had $$$ to start with and they continue to accumulate w/these careers. If you start with student loans, as we did, the road is much longer and pricier. And we are lucky - it is far harder these days unless you have a career like that to go into. We at least can afford the middle class lifestyle, so to speak. Folks who would like to graduate without $100K+ in student loans - just have a decent job, work, and enjoy their families as their parents/grandparents did - are scraping from paycheck to paycheck with their service jobs rather than enjoying a life-long career. My grandfather's job was at Speed Queen - you worked regular hours (stability!) until retirement and had a decent lifestyle along the way. Those days seem to be gone for most.

They will fix this w/taxation if they want to continue with the capitalism - or they can keep stealing from everyone else (next up Social Security) and see how folks react.

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