Ronald Reagan; Savior or Scum

[franklin]

3. I simply cannot agree with you on the leisure time thing. I grew up in a household with a one working parent and most my friends did too.(both of my parents are working now) I know few people who have the luxury to maintain a single breadwinner household these days. Just eight years ago I made less money and had an easier time affording the things my family needs. I would still like to see a link to the study your referencing by the way.

I basically agree with #1 & 2.

You keep going back to working outside the home without accounting for working inside the home. To illustrate your point, you have to show that women are working daycare while also saying women at home are not doing that same work. Let that sink in a minute.

You're also not factoring in the 2nd and 3rd jobs men used to work. Nor work men did around the house on the weekends. I don't know any one who works on cars anymore other than the people who do it as a hobby...

Also, look up the BLS data on average hours worked per week (down 4 hrs from 1964). That's a data point that needs more interpretation, but overall it shows less work.

I don't have time right now to find you the studies, and to be honest I don't really care to read more about something so trivial and obviously created by some bleeding heart set on despair, but if you google on work and leisure then there will be plenty of stuff for you on the first page.

 

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Another thoroughly debunked myth. Class mobility in America is alive and well.

I think that depends on which class. It's probably easier in America to more from the second-highest quintile to the highest than in many Western European countries. In most places in America, it's much harder to move out of the lowest quintile than in those countries.

 

[Stoked]

I think that depends on which class. It's probably easier in America to more from the second-highest quintile to the highest than in many Western European countries. In most places in America, it's much harder to move out of the lowest quintile than in those countries.

Opinion or fact based?

 

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Postal Service cutting hundreds of locations, and cutting services that we have been used to all our lives.

As with the music industry, this is from progress. Emails, etc. have replaces letters.

 

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Opinion or fact based?

I've read a county-level map. The lack of mobility is especially notable in the largest urban areas (NYC and LA excepted) and in the Deep South.

 

[franklin]

I think that depends on which class. It's probably easier in America to more from the second-highest quintile to the highest than in many Western European countries. In most places in America, it's much harder to move out of the lowest quintile than in those countries.

Of course.

The lowest quintile is the only area the USA has a mobility problem, which is why tend to focus on inner city plight so much. The remaining 80% don't have the issue because higher education is readily accessible.