One guys rant

[Tradewind]

Thanks for planting the seed of doubt @Tradewind
Now im wondering if the images of my colon are the real McCoy , or not.
It was a nice 30 min nap time though.

I am not even going to ask what you found.........

 

[Dougfirtree]

I never said it was complete. There are a lot of things at play, but I have numbers. Average size of a home = 1970 1600sq ft, 2015 2500sq ft
Average family size decreased from about 3.6 to 3.15 over same period. Bigger homes and smaller families. That shows Americans changing their expectations of what they consider normal. Did it drive the need for a second income or did the second income drive the expectations higher? I can't answer that.

Wages not growing fast enough is certainly a problem, but more for tax revenue. There is other data showing we spend less of our income on fuel and groceries than we did 40 years ago. Most everyone is walking around with a smart phone or watching a big screen TV. Makes me wonder what exactly people spend their money on and if they are willing to "sacrifice" it to become a one-income family, and is there something special about that?

Any comparison to your Ivy league Dad might be tough because it is anecdotal. If your point is a college education is too expensive, I would agree. We have elected to reduce federal funding to colleges for the last 40 yrs. Again, most of the items in the rant need to start with us looking in the mirror.

No argument that these are factors!

 

[noharleyyet]

Does that include you?

Water?...pshaw, never touch the stuff.