You know, LG, in 1978 I was a university grad, with a professional job making the equivalent of six figures and I couldn’t afford a home. I had a perfect credit record, a down payment and they just told me there was no way I could qualify for a mortgage. Interest rates were up around 20%. Nobody could afford a new car let alone two cars.…
You know, LG, in 1978 I was a university grad, with a professional job making the equivalent of six figures and I couldn’t afford a home. I had a perfect credit record, a down payment and they just told me there was no way I could qualify for a mortgage. Interest rates were up around 20%. Nobody could afford a new car let alone two cars. We lived with our parents’ hand me down furniture, we didn’t have destination weddings and holidays were in a tent at a lake near home. I sure as hell couldn’t live like my children and their friends live. We didn’t change jobs weekly, we supported a professional union and fought for our worker rights, even as professionals. We ended up living in a trailer and that saved our future. We scrimped and saved and on my wife’s 40th birthday could buy a home. So, quit talking about how hard your six-figure lives are. You want to fight price gouging and shrinkflation then get off your butt and fight it. Boycott, form a co-op, do what you have to do, just don’t sit there waiting for a politician to do something for you.
Thompson...I'm not complaining about my six-figure life. I'm commiserating with young people who are very disenchanted with their situations. Your unfounded generalization about changing jobs etc...just an old string of Boomerisms.
Just to set the record straight, your arrogant self has no clue about the status of my butt...where it is and what its doing. I have been a very productive community organizer for 50 years.
And I bought my first house at 16.9%. But prices where not nearly as outrageous as now.
What rubs me wrong about loudmouths like Doug Thompson...you don't know squat. And your lifestyle over the years...what's your excuse for the chips on both of your shoulders?
You know, LG, in 1978 I was a university grad, with a professional job making the equivalent of six figures and I couldn’t afford a home. I had a perfect credit record, a down payment and they just told me there was no way I could qualify for a mortgage. Interest rates were up around 20%. Nobody could afford a new car let alone two cars. We lived with our parents’ hand me down furniture, we didn’t have destination weddings and holidays were in a tent at a lake near home. I sure as hell couldn’t live like my children and their friends live. We didn’t change jobs weekly, we supported a professional union and fought for our worker rights, even as professionals. We ended up living in a trailer and that saved our future. We scrimped and saved and on my wife’s 40th birthday could buy a home. So, quit talking about how hard your six-figure lives are. You want to fight price gouging and shrinkflation then get off your butt and fight it. Boycott, form a co-op, do what you have to do, just don’t sit there waiting for a politician to do something for you.
Thompson...I'm not complaining about my six-figure life. I'm commiserating with young people who are very disenchanted with their situations. Your unfounded generalization about changing jobs etc...just an old string of Boomerisms.
Just to set the record straight, your arrogant self has no clue about the status of my butt...where it is and what its doing. I have been a very productive community organizer for 50 years.
And I bought my first house at 16.9%. But prices where not nearly as outrageous as now.
What rubs me wrong about loudmouths like Doug Thompson...you don't know squat. And your lifestyle over the years...what's your excuse for the chips on both of your shoulders?
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