Quote (Kayeto @ Nov 6 2020 05:01am)

There's been a feeling of impending doom hanging over the whole process (going back months). After spending more time following what others are saying about this election, I think I finally figured out what was causing my feeling. I am posting this to see if it resonates with anyone else.

The robust job market of the 1990s is not coming back. I might have already known this for years, but in the back of my mind I was justifying that there was still a reason to hold out hope (that's just how the human brain is wired). It's a tough pill to swallow, but hearing the talking points around this election, it's clear that the government's goal is not to create the same kind of job market we had in the 1990s. In fact, their goal is to intentionally move further from that.

It sucks to realize that I'm getting older and that my idea of wanting a strong job market makes me an outdated boomer. There is a growing crowd of people who will literally say "we want the opposite of that". So really, there's no path to justify holding out hope when the resources we have are all being used to move things in the other direction.

Quote (lordzhangfei @ Nov 6 2020 08:10am)

There is a wave of people in this generation that want everything free, they feel like the world owes them something. It won't take long for them to realize that these things that were supposedly free were not free at all, and it comes at a higher price than any amount of dollars, their freedom and liberty will be the price. I can only hope this trend dies and people will want to work hard again. It tough when the systems in place wants to bury you financially for basic needs like Healthcare, water and power (gas/electricity). The Healthcare system needs to be more about patients health and less about filling pockets, but this system we built and we can rebuild it to be more cost efficient., just takes the right people. Hopefully I can see this change in my lifetime.

Quote (Malignanttumor666 @ 6 Nov 2020 13:03)

Trump is finished. Here comes another 8 years of shitty leadership and higher taxes.

Quote (Epple @ 6 Nov 2020 12:01)

Quote (Kayeto @ Nov 6 2020 06:01am)

There's been a feeling of impending doom hanging over the whole process (going back months). After spending more time following what others are saying about this election, I think I finally figured out what was causing my feeling. I am posting this to see if it resonates with anyone else.

The robust job market of the 1990s is not coming back. I might have already known this for years, but in the back of my mind I was justifying that there was still a reason to hold out hope (that's just how the human brain is wired). It's a tough pill to swallow, but hearing the talking points around this election, it's clear that the government's goal is not to create the same kind of job market we had in the 1990s. In fact, their goal is to intentionally move further from that.

It sucks to realize that I'm getting older and that my idea of wanting a strong job market makes me an outdated boomer. There is a growing crowd of people who will literally say "we want the opposite of that". So really, there's no path to justify holding out hope when the resources we have are all being used to move things in the other direction.

Quote (Malignanttumor666 @ Nov 6 2020 06:03am)

Trump is finished. Here comes another 8 years of shitty leadership and higher taxes.

Quote (MizzouFTW @ Nov 6 2020 07:52am)

Higher taxes... on who? Hate to be the guy to tell you thus but my tax burden went up under Trumos tax plan. That first year cost me an extra grand with a $6 paycheck increase. The fuck are you worried about taxes from the left for

Edit: you should be worried about taxes from the right. How else do you think they're going to pay for the 4 years of Trump we endured? Remember now that a democrats in office its back to fiscal responsibility

Quote (dro94 @ Nov 6 2020 02:52am)

Can we at least all agree now that America is not the freest country in the world. Sitting president claiming electoral fraud with no evidence is fascism and the 48% voted for it...