Not to make your head explode... but that's how you're supposed to live. The independent nuclear famil is 50s post-war mythology.
#212 | Posted by sitzkrieg

So the Boomer and GenX and Millennial and Zoomer generations of parents, almost all of them failed their kids:

Kids need to learn to live within their means,
#32 | Posted by eberly

And you live with an old gay guy who you're hoping will give you something.
#200 | Posted by lfthndthrds

You're describing you as a baby.
The old gay guy... was your ancestors.

"He just won't ever vote to accomplish anything."

Is that really his fault though?

There isn't a Republican he can vote for in the primaries who supports school lunches, day care, food stamps, minimum wage, etc.

Those Republicans went extinct after W.

He's in the same position as his imaginary 25 year old kid, trying to live within his means.

Those things he says he supports, they are no longer within the means of the Republican Party.

Trump probably thought Herbert Hoover was some kind of genius after hearing Archie Bunker sing wistfully about him in the All In The Family theme song.

These lyrics are contemporary Republican politics to a tee. We hear this stuff daily from Republicans here and in the media:

Those Were The Days

Boy the way Glenn Miller played
Songs that made the hit parade.
Guys like us we had it made,
Those were the days.

And you knew who you were then,
Girls were girls and men were men,
Mister we could use a man
Like Herbert Hoover again.

Didn't need no welfare state,
Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days.

source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/allinthefamilylyrics.html

Why isn't the DoJ all over this case
#3 | Posted by LampLighter

Same reason DOJ isn't investigating the Epstein Files.

You are aware the kidnap victim's daughter spilled the beans on Trump and Epstein, right? You should know that.

Someone upthread said something about a man in the 1950's being able to support a family on one income... Has anyone looked at the size of those houses they lived in?
#96 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Poor people used to deserve homes, but now they don't, is what you are saying here.

That's what the homebuilders and the regulators have decided: No more building homes that poor people can afford.

This is exactly what's described in "The Innovator's Dilemma" by the way. As a business scales, it requires higher margins to sustain growth.

And we are in an era of record corporate profits.

And corporate profits are paid for with wages that don't keep up with production:

We distribute income on a bell curve and the bottom 20% are poor. or whatever % we choose to define it.
#29 | Posted by eberly

That's incorrect. Probably not malicious; just statistically awful.

The bell curve is a symmetric distribution. Income distribution is very different. If income was truly a bell curve we wouldn't be having this conversation. We get further from a bell curve every day, every year, decade after decade.

"The "long tail" in U.S. income distribution refers to the portion of the income distribution where many households have relatively small incomes far from the high-income "head," while a few households hold a disproportionately large share of total income. In the U.S., income inequality has widened since the 1970s, with the top 1 percent earning significantly more than the bottom 20 percent."

And when most households have both parents working.....that's why the cost is so high.
#146 | Posted by eberly

No, that's just another right wing Trump thing you're dutifully regurgitating.

"Home prices rose 2.4 times faster than inflation since 1960s, study finds."

"The trend holds if the timeline is narrowed, too. Since 2013, inflation has clocked in at 31% while the median home price has risen by 63%."

Women working since 2013 didn't cause housing inflation to double overall inflation.

Not to mention, their employer didn't consider hiring a woman or a minority for their job much less sending that job to Vietnam.
#97 | Posted by eberly

Today's employers send jobs to Vietnam.
Poor people didn't do that.
Rich people did that to poor people's jobs.

See Also: Illegal immigrants can't take American citizens jobs.
Illegal immigrants can only be given American citizens jobs.
Given by employers, wanting to pay poor people even less.

Kids need to learn to live within their means,
#32 | Posted by eberly

You don't practice what you preach.
Your kids lived within your means.
Your private school tuition payments.
Your five car payments.

I can't believe JeffJ is silent on this First Amendment issue.

I guess the government stifled his free speech too.