re: Would you rather the US crash into another Great Depression, or...

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It’s a complicated deal for sure. I dont blame anyone for wanting a good, enjoyable retirement. I just know that not rocking the boat has made things 100 times worse and something has to give at sone point. And it looks like the milennial generation, will bear the brunt of it, largely because of boomers who’ve run the country for the better part of 30 years. Milennials basically have little to no expectation to retire. They are paying into a system that probably wont exist when they hit retirement age. The situation is bleak. Boomers were born into more prosperity than any generation in history and managed to squander it and saddle future generations with unimaginable debt. This all while so much vitriol is spewed at milennials. Who definitely have their faults please dont get me wrong there, I would just like to see a little more self reflection if some in the boomer generation. Maybe a fair number of boomers are a little bit selfish? Its hard to lump entire generations together like that, but people talk about tgings in terms of generations so...

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Boomers WORKED, and paid in to a System/'contract' that was overseen by Politicians...that we assumed were honest. Bad mistake. They weren't/aren't.

Two things. Manufacturing Base went to China...and as a result, Socialist Policy was instituted to fill the un-employment gap. And..."The Fourth Turning"...as such relates to prevailing culture and politics. Read that Book, ND, if you want to understand "Generations".

And if you want some questionable (Lib wrote it) consolation/hope for the future, read "Abundance" (not Reich's BS). Millenians are poised to exploit one of the greatest potential eras ever on this Planet (per our recorded history)...they just have to develop the wisdom to make a successful economic paradigm transformation to what will be a synthesis of merit-based affluence (Capitalism), and a practical/workable moral-based (Socialism) economy which will serve all the folk that will be un-employed due to high tech.

Good luck.

a real 1927 crash...if the leftists ever get control, its a venezeulan style crash

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Dude my parents told me what it was like during the Great Depression. You don't know what you're saying. Be careful what you ask for. Obviously you don't have kids to feed, or a family that depend on you for survival.

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The further we get away from an event, the more ignorant we become on that event. If anyone has older relatives that lived through the depression, ask them about it, and then ask yourself if you'd still wish that on your fellow man.

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There's no silver lining in an economic depression. The only good that can come out of it is that maybe we'll elect a real leader as President. My parents lived through the Hoover Depression. My mother praised FDR at all possible opportunities and never missed a chance to call him a great President, particularly when measured against those who followed him. Her admiration for Roosevelt was exceeded only by her loathing for Hoover, and later, Eisenhower!

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"real leader". Venezuela was a very rich Nation, they elected their 'real leader' who took FDR's Socialist Ideology and ran with it. Take a good look down there.

Desperation, or misguided/well-intentioned Idealism (but unrealistic) guarantees economic dysfunction and societal collapse. I have long posited the idea of "the next *Trump*...and given all the Red on that Map...that is likely what we'll get in a Great Depression. And He/They...won't be pandering for votes or *compromising* with a proven dysfunctional Congress.