05-22-2015, 11:22 PM
(05-22-2015, 09:12 PM)dmcowen674 Wrote: Your responses are very "Rich like". I know why. With both working and apparently making decent enough money to afford a quarter of a million dollar house you are not affected like the lower working rungs in the U.S. are. The U.S. has become a "Caste like" system. The Bell curve is more like a cliff now. Those at the bottom of the cliff looking up and those at the top looking down.
I agree, and lay most of the current problems in our country at the feet of trade agreements, reductions in import tariffs, and outsourcing.
People without hope turn to booze, dope, crime, etc and "I'm going to reinvent myself as a programmer/engineer/health care professional is hard for anyone and likely impossible for a lot.
Not you though Dave, and I'd note my dad has a friend that went to law school and passed the bar exam in two states, and built a practice, all after fifty.