Wouldn’t surprise me... don’t like to generalize, but baby boomers generally not only did a number on this country, they appear to be completely oblivious to it too. Especially the glorified government employee types![]()
Very easy to beat
Somewhat easy to beat
Not easy to beat at all
He’s another Avante type old man who looks for attention on the internet because his kids don’t talk to him anymore![]()
Wouldn’t surprise me... don’t like to generalize, but baby boomers generally not only did a number on this country, they appear to be completely oblivious to it too. Especially the glorified government employee types![]()
For all the tiness of baby boomers, the “silent generation” is by far the worst. They were entering the workforce in the late 40s/early 50s (there’s never going to be a more prosperous economic time ever again) and there weren’t very many of them which made it that much easier to succeed, yet they’re on an even bigger high horse than baby boomers are about how “tough” they had it when they’re collectively the richest generation this country has ever seen and ever will see.
Not for all, like anything else, but a bunch being one paycheck from disaster is because they live beyond their means, due to overreaching on their credit. They drive new cars, have new homes, kids have all the gadgets and name brand apparel. House has at least 3 televisions, they pay for cable service and internet. They might have Netflix and other streaming services. They might have Amazon prime accounts. They could have Costco memberships. Some of that seems like "meh" but all these bills add up to being broke if you miss a couple paychecks.
Most of us have been there at some point. Some people stay that way. Again, not all. Some are legit struggling due to cir stance mostly beyond their control, like geographical location, family issues, medical problems not brought about by lifestyle, etc...
But what do I know, I just pretend to be affluent to impress Koolaid Man.
They were the last of the resource hog generations. You'll see pictures of someone with 100 fish, 30 deer, something stupid like that and they claim they did it all the time. Now we have tight limits. They threw their trash out the car windows, smoked indoors holding babies, beat their wives (ok some good was done at least), molested their kids... pretty ed up generation. Oh but those were the good old days when you could do all that and keep it on the down low with a pair of cheap sunglasses for the miss and the kid was just shy.
Meh I heard this same thing as an explanation in 2008 when Wall Street nearly drove us into another great depression. We have ridiculously expensive healthcare and education in this country which is a sinkhole a ton of our nation's wealth gets sucked into.
Pretty high, he's inheriting a good situation. No new war, people think the economy is doing well, the left look out of touch after the Mueller debacle and dem candidates are weak.
Biden will win the nod, he will have less to go on than hillary while still having baggage. Trump will win in similar fashion, maybe trading a few states.
You really think the sun shines out of the Democrats' assholes, don't you?
Trump most likely gets reelected tbh. I hope I am wrong though.
It's mind boggling sometimes the lack of historical perspective these generations have. Basically, we had the pre-Bretton Woods system of the dollar pegged to the gold, and these generations basically funded all their excesses with post-Bretton Woods fiat money.
They were basically handed a pristine government credit card, completely loaded it, and now have the balls to about the debt to later generations. Prototypical case of do as I say, not as I do.
"real wages".
This is the cry of the minimum wage worker. At age 55 you should have escaped that already, fattie.
The two issues aren't mutually exclusive. Healthcare costs are up, but at the same time people want at least the "average lifestyle" without a plan on how to get there. They just feel en led to it. Just having retirement money is more than many if not most will ever accomplish financially.
I have actually lived off of S Zarzamora near Applewhite blvd back in the day. Unlike you, apartment dweller off some Northwest thoroughfare, I climbed out of it. You'd need a Chinook helicopter to lift your fat ass out.
I live in Austin. I know you think that's affluent but you have "grown" to have low expectations. You likely collect disability because you're a dumpy , probably claim carpal tunnel and fibromyalgia.
you got all that from an emoji you ing re wannabe armchair psychologist? you're a ing dip bonerchamp. you make a case daily for how unhinged and how uneducated you truly are with each new reply coming from your crisco covered obese fat ing marshmallow fingers.
the funniest thing of all is your claim that i read/took anything from dmc. there's been like 4 people the past 2 days calling you out as a fat so own it you fat ! lmao you're such a ing re but that's nothing new to any of us here.
the bus station? last time i rode a bus was in miami like 5-6 yrs ago. keep trying with your lame weak ass jabs.
yeah yeah yeah the death wish bs. you'll be first with high-cholesterol/clogged arteries so cheers to that!
Who the lies about living in Austin?
you low expectation having mother er
It isn't poor shaming to say that the American middle class over extends itself every day, especially when times are perceived to be good. People buy houses they can't afford, drive cars they can't afford, eat out on credit, go on vacation on credit, etc. Everything is a-okay as long as they continue to make payments. Once there is a lapse in paychecks though...
People who really are poor are probably better equipped for an economic downturn than the middle class is.
he won by 77,000 votes out of 130,000,000
He is far less popular now, and has energized his opponents in a way I have not seen in my lifetime. 2018 mid-terms were the canary in the coal mine.
Donald Trump’s electoral map has shifted dramatically. How does it bode for his 2020 chances?
Shifting trends in the electoral map since Trump's inauguration leave no one confident in his re-election chances
this group largely had a positive opinion of Trump in 2016 — 85 percent of these voters approved of him, the survey found.
But these opinions have significantly shifted. In 2019, only 66 percent of these voters still approved of Trump — a 19-point drop.
“Even small movement among these voters — who represented 9 percent of voters in 2016 — may prove significant heading into the 2020 presidential election,”
the president started out in early 2017 with a net positive approval rating:
- PA: +10
- WI: +6
- MI: +7
But by April 2019, he was significantly underwater in each of these states:
- PA: -7
- WI: -13
- MI: -10
There are other states where he’s also looking weak.
In Ohio, he’s at -4;
Arizona, -7;
Florida, -2;
North Carolina, -2;
Iowa, -8.
Meanwhile, there are no states that Hillary Clinton won in 2016 in which Trump now has a positive approval rating.
https://www.salon.com/2019/05/10/donald-trumps-electoral-map-has-shifted-dramatically-how-does-it-bode-for-his-2020-chances_partner/
With all the great things President Trump has done for the American people, he should easily win. The only worry I have is the new way the dems use to cheat, like voter harvesting. So far Trump has kept most of his promises to the people that voted for him, and all the dems have is racism, racism, racism.
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