or maybe what they are doing is reading clear words with an obvious meaning and immediately distorting them because of bias
Just shows you the psychological impact of growing up in a time where we had regular nuclear attack drills at school. Like crawling under your desk and covering your head was going to be a help.
At least you had the ability to work a normal full time job and support a family and pay for life expenses. Hard enough to make it on your own now, let alone take care of an entire household. Livability in our current society is fucked.
We were kind of the crossover generation for that. When I was a kid, hardly anyone had moms that worked outside the home. By the time I was working, the age of women getting a job was in full swing, but I think for most middle class folks it provided extra income. Now, for most people you need two incomes just to get by. Somehow it seems like the American Dream has been derailed.
I consider it a mark of pride. I intend to have "Boomer" stenciled on my disposable diapers at the home.
BINGO! This^^^^^^^^^ When my wife and I got married back in the dark ages, we agreed that I would provide the income and she would stay at home with the kids (when they arrived) until they reached school age, because that is what I had growing up. We did it, but it just about broke us literally and figuratively. When my wife went back to work life got a bit easier but we still had to work hard to make ends meet. When you get right down to it, we didn’t have it much if any better than the X,Y and Z generations once we hit adulthood. There is plenty of blame to go around for current conditions (not that that will solve anything) but to lay it all on the Boomers is nothing more than convenient.....and lazy. Not to mention wrong.......
I'd have to look that one up....sounds like a basketball player to me....I'm not a football fan but I know who Boomer Esiason is....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Anderson_(quarterback) Much more revered QB in Cincy than Boomer Esiason.
Can you imagine these millenials having to grow up with no cell phones, one small tv in the household, 3-4 stations on tv and no ability to watch theater movies at home on a video player?
Housing costs in desirable living destinations like Portland (I guess that still applies) are the main reason for the change in standard of living and the need for two incomes. Since I graduated high school in 1970, the average inflation rate has been 3.97% per year. That means that goods should cost about 6.5 times as much today as they did then. That works for most things, but not housing. We were just checking out the house that my wife grew up in in NE Portland. It's just an average post-war Cape Cod with about a 1500 sq. ft. floor area. The neighborhood is decent, but nothing great. Her parents sold it in 1972 for around $30,000. If the overall rate of inflation applied, that would mean it should sell for just under $200K today. Zoom shows it having an estimated value of $517,000, which is more than 17 times what it sold for in 1972. There are multiple reasons for this in Portland, but a tight UGB and gold-plated development standards are certainly factors. There's also the simple supply and demand factor that results from a lot of people wanting to move here. Want a more affordable lifestyle? Move to Albuquerque.
Not to mention one bathroom for a family of six and an older sister who took like an hour to get her makeup and hair just right.
lol, fortunately we moved into our house when I was in the 2nd grade (1961) and had 2 sisters 4 and 5 years older than me. The upstairs had one large bedroom and an unfinished bedroom. I got the unfinished bedroom, but shortly after we moved in we had the upstairs finished with 2 large bedrooms and full bathroom that my sisters mostly used.
All these Cincinnati Bengals being name-checked and no one's even mentioned the best player in Bengals history, Anthony Muñoz. Many consider him the greatest offensive tackle ever.
