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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents were greatest generation. My dad graduated high school, was a Marine in WWII, came home and did a few semesters of college. He was a salesman, then a cost accountant. My folks bought a 3/2 ranch home, and added a pool. This is on a the salaries of my dad and my mom, who worked in a department stores sales clerk.

The also put me through college on that salary.

The 1 percenters have wrecked the economy. Not the immigrants. America is built on Immersive. It is the grifters like Trump and Musk who are bankrupting the US.

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It's called globalization.

It's erroneous to keep comparing America's golden years post-WW2 to the modern economy. There's simply much more competition now that the world has rebuilt from WW2.  The golden era was just a blip on the radar and an anomaly that will never happen again. [/quote]

nope, sorry, the changes occurred before "globalization" and blaming "the immigrants" is woefully misplaced. There have been immigrants in the US ... forever. This is a more recent, last 40 years, phenomenon that has more to do with the concentration of wealth in the 1% and the reduction of real wages for the working classes.[/quote]

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