Less Young People Camping?
It has been a belief of mine for a long time that each generation has it “tougher” than the previous generations. My parents were what I consider to be “middle class.” Mom had her own beauty shop...
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sleepyT wrote:I assume you mean the middle class makes the same income today as in 1978 as adjusted for inflation, which would mean the cost of living has not increased faster than wages. Tariffs and trade wars cut both ways. Not really sure that someone working at Boeing is going to be happy losing his job making the world's finest jets when China slaps a tariff on US goods and China Airways starts buying from Airbus. All because we put tariffs on rubber ducks so we can produce them in an automated factory in Seattle. It's been tried again and again and the results are always the same. Trade wars lead to depressions and real wars.
It is a proven fact that the middle class is making the same wages as it did in 1978. The cost of living has grown faster than our wages. We have been force feed that we need to have FREE TRADE, but what we really have is CHEAP LABOR. We need to start making things here again, and put tariffs on goods made elsewere. Let us not SLAM the younger generation, let us instead look at the WRONG DIRECTION in which our country is headed. The preceding statements are NOT political they are FACT...
