[catman67]

I remember my sugar cube as well. We were among the first to get the vaccine as we were in a Pittsburgh suburb and Salk did his work out of Pitt.

I’ll never understand why he didn’t receive the Nobel Prize for it.

[Tax-chick]

When they left the protective nest of academia and walked into an economic downturn that didn’t have a big fat job with a big fat paycheck and big fat benefits ...

When I left the protective nest (blahblahblah) in 1988, I started out taking any temp job that paid more than it cost to drive to the work site. Then I got a permanent job as a secretary, then a night job in a law firm. I moved up in both jobs while putting my husband through college, so that by the time I was 28, like an average "occupier," I had two children, a husband with an electrical engineering degree and a civil service job, no debt, and a raging case of radical conservatism.

I consider myself fortunate to have missed epidemic diseases, thanks to people like Dr. Salk, who invented vaccines, and like my parents, who saw that I received them.

[SuziQ]

"The absolutely hilarious part comes from them completely ignoring that, because they live in America, they are part of the world’s 1%. They ignore that the reason they’re not part of America’s 1% is because they haven’t worked for it. And they really ignore the fact that the scholarships and loans they received are the product of the hard work, contributions, and taxes of the 1% that they both hate and/or envy."

Well said!

[Buckeye McFrog]

I think I was deterred from soft whining because I was close to my grandparents, who told me many tales of what life was like during the Depression and WW II as I was growing up.

This current generation has no such direct tie to those times. And the results are not encouraging.

[Darren McCarty]

I'm sounding like Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino, but I'm 33 and can't believe the amount of P***ification of the generation behind mine. Unbelievable.

Hopefully they grow up. Eventually.