split costs to keep all of us afloat. In addition to allowing us all to survive, my cats, should they survive me, will be well taken care of when I'm gone and the house is my grandson's, free and clear. We're back to living multi-generationally, as we did in the days of the great depression and prior. All the gains we made since FDR are being systematically erased. For me, I can trace it back directly to the early 1980's, and the advent of "saint Reagan." Things that had been traditional for decades prior to that suddenly were cast aside and illusory replacements offered. Instead of set pension plans, for example, we got IRAs and 401ks. Poor substitutes. Families who had worked for a major factory or other business, who had seen parents sometimes start and end their work careers in that one business suddenly found themselves thrown to the "Right to work" wolves. And where it used to be traditional and normal for one income to fund a family of four, it now took 2 incomes (or more) to do the same thing... and yet, still, women were consigned to "female" jobs like secretary or receptionist. They could be denied a position simply because they were of child bearing years, whether or not there was any desire to have a child. And if a position had to be cut, you could be sure the woman was fired before any man would be. And we're basically back to those days once again. In fact, it looks like we're going to have to do another VRA demand for women soon, and take history lessons from any we can find on the Suffragette movement that came before us.
And I'd better never come face-to-face with some self-serving male telling ME (or any of my female descendents) to submit to anyone... I wield a mean cane and walking stick!! And I am not shy of telling them where they can shove that kind of sh*t.
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