Reply #31: OK, we're about the same age...

[WestSeattle2]

well, ONE of us is a bit older, but we won't go there. :)

So, is the period that we grew up in an anomaly? Post WWII bubble of prosperity? That's my point of reference, what I consider normal. What is happening now just seems so outlandish.

It just seems absurd to me that our own government is crushing, and selling out, the vibrant middle-class, and yet people keep electing the same people.

OK, the folks earning $100,000k who have $100,000 in credit card debt are absolute idiots. I'm not concerned about them in the least. Who concerns me, are the everyday middle-income wage earners who are struggling to just get by.

And yet the government just stands by watching doing absolutely nothing, or worse, even piles on, this ever shrinking backbone of society. I'm just not understanding this "race to the bottom", and why so many of us are allowing it to happen.

But yes, thank GOD, that Ed and Steve down the street can't get married. That would totally destroy our society. :banghead: