re: #288 lostlakehiker

OK OK it’s all the plutocrats fault. Speculators and plutocrats have caused housing prices to go too high. And also too low. The bad old days when women had to work in the home are gone. And that’s bad. Or good. Take your pick.

the old days when one income could support a family are gone. how are we supposed to raise children now?

The middle class cannot afford what the middle class used to be able to afford: an education for their children that put the children in the top 5 or 10 percent. Everybody got that, back in the day.

my grandfather could afford to go to CCNY and eventually got a medical degree whil working as a streetcar conductor while his father was a tailor

i repeat, you need to read some american history

Europe doesn’t have the answers, guys. They’ve got their own problems, and those problems are serious. Worse than ours, really.

not actually true. europe, especially ‘socialist’ western europe, is doing just fine, thank you