PA people need to take a course called “Connect the Dots”.
The American dream getting routed to GibMeDats, blm, islam and every other unearned minority.
The will be the majority soon. I plan to give no crap nor take it from any of these enemies.
Our totally fiat currency and central bank mean that rampant money printing, government spending and debt creation means cronies, insiders, bankers and politicians get first crack at all the new money. Workers and average savers lose.
I grew up in PA. Graduated in 1976. That was a great summer, the bicentennial. Nevermind...
A lot of stupid liberals in the comments section. Mindless liberals will be the downfall of this once great country.
What killed the American dream in PA?
Democrats
Insane public unions
NAFTA
Insane workers comp costs
No tort reform
I’m a 64 y/o boomer. Fortunately, I planned pretty well, but I sure want a Trump victory to set me up. HRC will send the USA in a cultural and economic downward spiral. I fear for my kids, grand kids.
That’s okay - Jeb Bush’s Dreamers are picking it up.
The “American Dream” has been dead for quite some time now.
What are they complaining about they have White Privilege
Two thirds of Americans believe that the country’s headed in the wrong direction.The labor market participation figures are at their lowest since records began.
Yet the helped Obama on his first term and his second
But wait, I thought Gallup just told us that ALL of us have “thrived” under Obambi?
Check that box for Trump, boomers!
Too many unwise fools voted in fellow unwise fools and so foolish decisions were made in the nation that effects us all. Still some people will never wise up and will refuse the light of truth. What it is— we would rather live apart from those who refuse to be wise and sane. At least I do.
Realistically speaking, taking a blue-collar hourly-wage job at a factory has seldom been the road to affluence and financial independence. It may have been OK for a while after Europe was flattened and the rest of the world went Communist, but such a situation cannot last forever.
The article says that they were eager to get a job at the plant, and used their influence to get in. This was because during this era, the pay was out of line with the difficulty of the work. To make similar money in a white-collar profession, you had to go to college and study for four years, and when you came out and started working you still wouldn’t make as much as the factory worker.
So guys who had both the brains and the manual skill to do something much better rushed into factory work. They didn’t like the jobs, because they were not challenged by the work. It was just a way to put in hours and make money.
Meanwhile, those who went into the white-collar world had interesting and challenging work, and could advance themselves if they had it in them. Even skilled manual workers, self-employed plumbers, electricians, and contractors, had more of chance to use all their skills and get ahead.
I remember back in 1964, my father hired a young electrician who had just gotten his license to wire our new house. In the late 90s, I remember going by his place; he had a big building with 20 panel trucks in the parking lot with his company name on them. Meanwhile, the factory workers just stamped out widgets on the assembly line, and waited for the day they could retire.
If I’m not mistaken (as a railfan), Berwick made lots of railroad freight cars...
Keep voting Democrat so you can lose it all
F em