Reply #89: I'm pre-boomer, greyhound.

[Senior citizen]

Apart from this cheap desktop and a juicer, I don't own anything. I was homeless for more than 20 years, during which time I failed to realize that anyone had handed me a high standard of living. I certainly don't own a home, and my senior building has a high percentage of immigrants who had to prove they were just as low income as I am in order to be eligible to move in. You've got the wrong guy, greyhound. The "greed is good" folks came along after my generation, and I resent them as much as you do. Pigs is pigs.

As for the inequitable capitalist system, the fact that it is inequitable is the extent of my knowledge, since I've never had any capital. The guy next door to me is Mexican and may well have been a farm worker when he was younger, but he had to prove citizenship to get into this building. The woman on the other side is African-American, the people across the hall are Phillipino, and the guy next to them is of Scottish heritage, I believe. I know one person who is middle class, but their family has two wage earners working two jobs each to make the payments on their mortgaged home. In addition to not owning or running anything, I haven't even consumed to excess, as I've spent many years living in places like Afghanistan and Honduras, in conditions even Peace Corps volunteers disdained.

I'm not sure that some of the new Nazis are wearing blue--we get a certain percentage of freepers on DU who only pretend to be liberal. DINOs (Democrats In Name Only) are exactly what we call them: DINOs.