re: Gen Z chick mad but she right.

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Bae got it wrong. Don't be pointing at the folks 20 years ago. Point the finger at the folks from 40 years ago.

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There’s so many mistakes we’ve made fiscally as a nation that it’s hard to pin it down to a specific instance.

We very early on began listening to the likes of Alexander Hamilton who loved bloated government and central banks. 1913 We codified the federal reserve and the federal income tax. Social security and various other New Deal policies. Getting away from the gold standard and going to fiat currency. Diving head first into Keynesian economics philosophy.

The list goes on and on.

Probably about 1 in 10 for a supervisor. 1 in 25 for a manager.

about 119per cent... shopped for groceries at suda salvage on Jefferson highway


Anybody note the tray of chicken she held up was boneless/skinless, priced 3-4 dollars a pound. Walmart where she works has 10 pound bags of leg/thigh sections at 5 bucks a bag

Yeah, and that stuff will likely kill you too since there's no telling what poison put in that food. You get what you pay for in food and the US considering how unregulated it is, it's basically poison in cheap food.


your choices are poison or less poison but still poison. Walmart been caught using China for a lot of their food sources especially anything seafood related.

Walmart also sells soy

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What percentage of your income was housing, insurance and groceries when you were coming up though? Be honest.

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28% for my first house almost 40% for my current house which I bought at 6.5% interest rate and bragged about how low the rate was.

When I graduated from college I could not afford a one bedroom apartment in fricking Leesville, LA. Newsflash every generation had it just as bad as your generation. We all figured it out just like your generation will.

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Newsflash every generation had it just as bad as your generation.

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I'm Gen X, but I can appreciate that the younger folks have it tougher now. And that's the key word: tougher. Admitting that doesn't have to negate that other generations may have had it tough as well.

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Shes right. Starting in the Bush years and ramping up in Obama years, we started both printing money like crazy and importing the third world for cheap labor...so that Boomers could enrich themselves and use govt to bail out their recklessness

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Yep. Nope. frick you.

I’ve busted my fricking arse my entire goddamn life. No handouts…no fricking bailouts…not a single, damn one.

frick you.

I want to know how she votes before I feel sorry for her.

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but I can appreciate that the younger folks have it tougher now

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Yeah because we are told to ad nauseam that they have it harder, but do they really? In 1996 as a 2LT Uncle Sam paid me a base pay of $1675 a month or the equivalent of $10/hr. In 2025 he will pay a new 2LT $3979 a month which is basically $23 per hour, or 2.3 x the amount I was paid.

According to the inflation calculator at data.bls.gov $1 in 1996 is would have the same buying power as $2.04 in 2024 which means a 2LT in 2025 has more buying power than I had. Sorry if I'm not buying all of this woe is me BS from Gen Zers.