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To: GnuHere

I can answer you.

Kids expected to start out where their parents “ended up.”

Maybe we’re guilty of not explaining about those times when we stayed in the inlaws basement, saving up for a down payment.

These kids wake up one day, with the college degree their parents could never afford for themselves, and want to start THERE. And then move on....

Example: My sister was raised in the same home as I was. Lower middle class. We clipped coupons as a family; it was a matter of survival for us. My sister married someone wealthy, but she has never been able to abandon her upbringing, she still clips coupons and sends away for refunds. We were just raised like that.

Her daughter is one of privilige. She’s never known or heard of hard times in the family. We have (as a family) done a crappy job of educating her.

I was there to visit a couple of weeks ago, remarking that I was thinking of moving to Fort Worth. She said she’d like to live in Austin, because that’s where the liberals live.

No kidding.

(Confirming my theory that the longer the distance between the wealth “earners” and the wealth “receivers” will dictate the political bent.)


26 posted on 10/10/2009 4:21:10 AM PDT by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: Daisyjane69

Yes. My parents weren’t rich, my dad made good money but there were 5 kids to feed, so we didn’t have a lot of stuff.

It only took me a little while before I lived in a house like my parents, and when I had my kids after 10 years of earnings, we weren’t rich but we could buy anything we really wanted. That’s because we lived frugally, coupons, buying on sale, not taking expensive trips, shopping at thrift stores and yard sales, fixing things instead of buying new things.

But, my kids had anything they wanted. Expensive toys, video games, huge TV, cable, multiple computers. We drive brand-new cars (paid for, but the kids just know they aren’t clunkers).

We’ll send our kids to college, they’ll get out, and wonder why they can’t immediately buy season passes to theme parks and live in a 4-bedroom house in a nice neighborhood.

We are to blame, of course, but partly I think it’s just a cycle that’s hard to beat. If you really are rich, you pass that to your kids, and they really don’t need to ever worry about money, like the Kennedys.

But for most of us, it’s like our parents struggle, so we understand struggle, but because we live in a nation that makes it easy to succeed (or used to) our kids don’t struggle, they think it’s easy, and then they are set up to fail. Their kids will struggle, and maybe succeed, and then THEIR kids will start the cycle.

And the idle rich, mostly democrats, are trying to make sure that nobody else gets to be idle rich, by taxing inheritance, taxing businesses so it’s hard to maintain a family business, killing them with regulations.

They want everybody working for nameless corporations, so the people will hate their employers, and need government.


33 posted on 10/10/2009 5:35:55 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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