things have been tough for the working class over the last decade. Until families can live on one income while one manages the home again, we are living substandard to even some parts of third world countries. Until the military reconsiders Stop Loss, our soldiers are burned out mercenaries who are forbidden to have guns, never see their children and commit suicide with one leg. No offense to any survivors - I'm bitter that an enlisted relative suffered so much with such poor support. In the last ten years, banks failed, mortages failed, real estate tumbled, the stock market reduced investments to almost zero, off-shoring took jobs away, and families are doubling up, with housing shortages. Foreclosures were the biggest newspaper section for almost a decade. People can't pay their student loans, jeopardizing another financial infrastructure. Our mental health system lost funding and put crazies back on the streets with no support. Latch key children or children raised in daycare are growing up to commit ever-increasing mass murders. Gang rape is happening, possibly by terrorists, in open, public gatherings abroad and hardly anyone seems to care.
The rest of you can go back to your perfect worlds now .
You need to get out more, it's summer, I see thousands and thousands of people in my city out enjoying street festivals, kids playing sports, concerts, food trucks with every kind of ethnic cuisine imaginable seem to be multiplying like rabbits - these aren't wealthy people, they are middle class and includes 'working class'.
There have always been problems - socialism does make the lives of the poor and sick easier but at the expense of a loss of liberty and a loss of innovation and progress and a decline in the wealth of a country. We can do better when it comes to those who are in need.
I believe good healthcare is a human right, Trump actually during the campaign said he'd provide healthcare for everyone and when asked who would pay for it he shrugged and smiled 'the government'. Trump would spend spend spend if not for the political party he 'borrowed' to make his run for the presidency.
Women want to work, feminism told them that being a stay at home mom was servitude to the patriarchy. Things weren't better in the past, other women took jobs to provide more for their kids, one income didn't provide enough to meet their wants and needs. People have and do more today than they did in my childhood in the 70s, very few working and middle class people traveled by air, vacations were car trips. A meal in a restaurant was not an everyday thing. Look around, restaurants everywhere, fast food, casual, upscale - who do you think is keeping them in business?
No young person should be lent money for a college education that doesn't have a good job waiting for them when they graduate. It's a disgrace that there are millions of 20 and 30 somethings who are $50,000 in debt with nothing to show for their time in college.
Are you employed? Do you have a family of your own?