[vision-master]

[Kristen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', '
')In addition, the average American household income has hit the wall as the full employment of both spouses can no longer drive the economy forward. There is simply not enough working resources left per household to compensate for flat real wages, or as shown in the recent downturn to make up for a job lost or a job that pays less.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'A')s I recollect, Stockman was the Wonder-Boy Voodo Priest who legitimized Reagan's so-called "Revolution" where government for-the-people and by-the-people was nullified in favor of the corporate free market. That was the beginning of the modern debt-based bubble economy.

Colbert asked Stockman if he invented "trickle-down economics" The guy was only momentarily flustered

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', ' ')I believe you're referring to communes, something I have experience with in a participatory way.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cualcrees', 'W')hat's "OMB"?

[Sixstrings]

An additional note about my original post..

After thinking about it some more, I realize this is actually "old news." This has been going on for decades now, it started with Reagan. We all already know that the "bread winning" jobs have been disappearing for a LONG time -- that's why we have two income families in the first place, most folks can't do it on one income.

Women in the workplace has been part of the cause.. I'm all for womens' rights, but you can't deny that back when mostly men worked they earned a paycheck that could support a family. After women entered the workplace en masse, employers essentially split that breadwinning check in two. And then after that the combined incomes began to further erode, to the point where two working class parents make less than one breadwinner used to.

Compounding the problem is the breakdown of marriages and the family. People just aren't are staying together anymore; if they get married at all, what's the average length? Seven years before divorce? Broken families breeds more dysfunction and instability, and the whole mess snowballs.

So now we have a situation where it takes two incomes to support a family, but there aren't enough jobs anymore plus mommies and baby daddies can't get along well enough to live together in the first place.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'W')omen in the workplace has been part of the cause.. I'm all for womens' rights, but you can't deny that back when mostly men worked they earned a paycheck that could support a family. After women entered the workplace en masse, employers essentially split that breadwinning check in two. And then after that the combined incomes began to further erode, to the point where two working class parents make less than one breadwinner used to.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'I') think you have this part backwards. Women probably left left the house because housework became boring, with little to do.

[dsula]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'I')t's a conundrum. There's no doubt that being a homemaker is BORING.

[vtsnowedin]

Suburban house wives have it a bit more boring!!
Cook, clean, laundry
Cook,clean, laundry,
Cook clean, laundry, fetch a kid.
Cook ,clean, laundry.
Cook, clean, laundry, grocery shop
fetch a kid, fetch a kid fetch a kid,
Cook ,clean, laundry
cook clean, laundry, cook
Pretend to not be too tired when he pats your butt.
Hope he means it when he says you still look good with your clothes off.
Cook ,clean , laundry, fetch a kid, fetch a kid.
Why would any woman take an outside job?

[dsula]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vtsnowedin', '8')) Suburban house wives have it a bit more boring!!
Cook, clean, laundry

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dsula', 'H')omemaker is A LOT less boring than most jobs out there ... You call that BORING?

[dsula]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'D')idn't mean to put it down. But if it's not boring, why were women so EAGER to go work?

[Novus]

This isn't about housewives or working women. The paradigm we have been living entire lives is coming to an end. The happy days of 2005, 1999, 1980s, or 1960s depending on your perspective is never coming back. There is no economic recovery and there never will be. What we are experiencing is a slow crash where things that are no longer sustainable crash and break. The low end middle class and working class is just one of the first casualties. There will be many more crashes and it will eventually come to your door unless you have prepared for it.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'T')his isn't about housewives or working women.