>Plus things were different in the 60's and 70's - it was actually possible to get ahead financially
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>Were you even alive during the Carter years (1970's)? I was and I watched the terrible economy drive my father out of business. Interest rates at 24% made life very difficult for a realtor. BTW, try buying a house with interest rates at 24%...

Yeah I was alive in the 60's and 70's. At the beginning of the 1970's it was possible to own a house, a car or two, and live just fine with one working parent. In the 1980's that all changed. You were able to work a minimum wage job and still pay for college. Impossible to do that now.