Reply #87: Obama is a sell out! [View All]

[rucognizant]

Of course he was not around in the 80's, in a productive way, he's too young! Born in 1961. He was in college when Reagan was inaugurated! He hadn't made an investment of time in running a business. In fact, has he ever? He's been in the social services sector.
That's a very different activity. I have successfully, run a small business for 17 years, tried to restart it in post Reagan America for another 16 1/2 years, with remarkable lack of success for the energy, resourcefulnesss, experience, and talent I have put into it.
Reagan sounded the death knell for my small entreprenureal custom art business, which had been flourishing for almost 10 years and 10 before that with my husband! It died an untimely death due to the Reagan Bush recession of 1990.
I have a theory that the Boomers, gravitated to financial takeover, as a safer way to change society than getting shot at at FT Kent. It was a collective unconscious thing, many minds hitting on the same solution.Fine except that with hostility( remember that cry."Never trust anyone over 30"? I was 31 at the time, and extremely liberal,) they shortchanged my generation by changing the rules in mid stream! We were the first generation who dared to divorce, if it wasn't working out, where our elders hung on & suffered. ( WE were the social progressives!)
So we suffered a loss of financial building together as a result. ( Women were paid at least 25% less than men!)
On the other hand the Boomers benefited, ( in many cases) from their Fathers, GI education and home buying bills so they were ahead of the game financially! ( Our Fathers had survived the depression!) Nobody talked about "early retirement". You worked your way up through the comapny to CEO, retired at 65, and got a gold watch, not a fabulous million $, gold plated, payout! Then they retired on their COMFORTABLE SS INCOME THAT COVERED ALL THEIR NEEDS!
Go to any rural area where the living is cheaper, and talk to people in ther late 60's, you'll hear plenty of stories!
BTW: What goes around comes around. YOU the squeeze generation, are the ones who have to fund your parents, ( or listen to your conscience) as well as send your kids to college ( formerly not mandatory for employment, another BOOMER bright idea!)