by Snowrunner » Sun 28 Aug 2005, 14:59:25
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wilburke', 'B')eing a high school graduate in the late 70's was pretty awful, but it is nothing compared to what the young people are going through today (and this, without even mentioning the specter of a military draft). I have nothing but sympathy, even for the supposedly secure upper-middle class variety whose consumption habits are being funded by a Real Estate/Refi/House-as-ATM economy that is about to send their parents into financial purgatory.
Sympathy is a 50/50 thing for me, because having beein "in the bubble" and seeing collegues "live it up" I really can't shed a tear, it was clear it would come to an end, but I know so many people who rather drank / bought it all away and are now left with little.
If parents couldn't make it clear to their kids that there is no free lunch then I am really not too sorry.... You sleep in the bed you make for yourself.