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We likeInstant CongressUpcoming eventsWords to live byThe way to fight this 'moving forward' frame is not to repeat it--that's the first step. The problem is, Americans want to talk about and correct all the problems the President created and we are in right now. And if we talk about 'moving forward' and looking up the road and turning points--we get distracted from the present. To reframe, we should force the debate to use a new phrase: This phrase focuses the discussion in Iraq, on immigration policy, on oil policy, on hurricane preparedness--focuses attention on the real concern: a government that fails to act in the face of huge problems. Subscribe Buttons                    | ||
Odd. I have the complete
Odd. I have the complete opposite experience. Almost all of my friends are first generation immigrants. By US standards we all grew up extremely poor - Bad neighborhoods and shitty living conditions. Yet we are all significantly better off than our parents...often times making multiple times more money than they do combined, at a fraction of the age.
What could possibly explain our different life experiences? You credit the disappearing middle class...I would guess probably the college major (were all, in one form or another, engineers, electrical, computer, network, etc).
And since stats show the middle class and income mobility are the same, if not stronger, than they were when our parents were younger, I'd put more weight on my life experience.