Scott Voak

@middle_class_us Read the Fourth Turning. Boomers benefited from their parents sacrifices and didnt want their kids to grow up without -or anyone to go without. So, more social programs for their generation with the bill paid by your generation. It ends ugly in a fourth turning.

Boomers had pensions. Gen X got 401ks. Millennials got the 2008 crash. Gen Z got a pandemic, a hiring freeze, AI layoffs, $7 milk, $800 car payments, $4,600 rent, and a student loan bill that follows them like a shadow. Every generation got a harder version of the same promise. Gen Z got the version where the promise is just gone. And they are called entitled for noticing.

@tokyo_111 It is likely that the reason your dad needs 3x tha amount to live on as your neighbor is the size of their house and how many times they eat out. The fact your neighbor has 2.5x to live on may speak to how much they ate at home compared to your dad. CHOICES.

My neighbor (boomer) retired at 65 with $400k in savings + $2,200/month pension + Medicare. He lives comfortably. My dad (millennial) is 58, has $180k in savings no pension, will need $6,500/month to retire, can’t retire until 75. My neighbor asks why my dad doesn’t just retire comfortably. Because he’s a different generation. My neighbor’s retirement was guaranteed. My dad’s is a prayer.

@katieporterca No. Youre not going to win as a state if you're main goal is to fight the federal govt. Check your unearned ego and be glad your ex didnt press charges. ELO did a song about you.

It's time for a Governor who is willing to go against the status quo, take on our state's biggest affordability challenges, and stand up to Donald Trump.

@OrevaZSN AND NOW U CAN STOP POSTING ABOUT HOW EXPENSIVE IT IS TO LIVE NEAR YOUR JOB THANK YOU

If 90% of your employee’s job is done on a laptop, they should be able to work from wherever they want as long as the results are getting done.

@MetamateDaz Because we are borrowing so much to provide free unearned stuff for people that we need more young working people to pay it off.

Why tf is birth rates dropping a reason for concern? THERE ARE LITERALLY 8 BILLION PEOPLE HERE ALREADY WHY TF DO WE NEED MORE?

@tokyo_111 Nope. Your uncle did not have access to 10% down loans like you do. Best was 25%, so he needed to save about a years salary for his down payment. Which, surprise is the same amount you have to save. Problem is bigger appetite of gov Makes it harder 4 u to save 1yr of salary.

My uncle bought a house in 1985 for $80k on a $25k salary. Paid it off in 15 years. Today that same house is worth $450k. My salary is $42k. To buy that same house now, I need $90k down payment. My uncle’s down payment was $8k he had it in 8 months. I’d need 11 years for that same house. Different economy. He won’t stop telling me to just buy property😣

@OrevaZSN Good for you, you can move to Venzuala and getting to middle class, where you wi find you have less than the poor here

No amount of budgeting, not eating out, or skipping little treats is going to make up for the fact that we simply do not make enough money for this economy.

@MetamateDaz Yea, but the syste. They used lifted the globe out of poverty. The one you want sends it back with a couple hundred million executions on the way

I'm tired of living under a government of, by, and for boomers. Average age of Congress: 58 Average age of Senators: 64 Boomers hold 72% of all U.S. wealth They wrecked housing, ballooned national debt, refuse to retire. enough is enough.

@PramilaJayapal Then get out of the way. Believe it or not, the entirety of the American population can sort things out better that some 535 ego maniacs in Washington

I believe in an economy where hard work means something. Where the person getting up before dawn to do a job that keeps this country running can afford a home, afford health care, afford to send their kids to college, and retire with dignity. That economy is not a fantasy. And it is the one we are fighting for.

@middle_class_us Unfortunately, that is the human downside of progress. The.carriage.drivers and horse poop shovelers lost their jobs to the automobile. But "a few years late" I think the mentally healthy among us still think it was the right thing to do.

Remember when they said learn to code and you would be set for life? Big tech laid off over 240,000 workers in two years. The meritocracy promised that if you worked hard enough at the right company you would be safe. That promise is gone. There is no safe company anymore. There is no making it anymore. There is just the next layoff.

@middle_class_us Awesome, pls source the data. Not that I agree with everyone who says you are full of shit, but because id like to share it.

The University of Michigan has tracked consumer sentiment since 1946. 80 years of monthly surveys. Through World War Two. Through the Korean War. Through Vietnam. Through the 1980 interest rate crisis. Through 9/11. Through 2008. Through COVID. The reading today is the lowest ever recorded in 80 years of data. Americans have never been this angry about the cost of living. Not once in eight decades. And the people in charge are still telling them the economy is strong.

@middle_class_us I dont think.many people could buy a house in their 20s unless they: 1-came back from fighting a war and got gi assistance, 2-rode in a.cobered wagon and built the damn thing, worked hard and partnered with friends to buy something. In other words, worked instead of whined

Leave Gen Z alone. They never experienced an America where you could afford to live alone. Or work one job and survive. Or buy a house in your 20s. Or go to college without financing the next decade of your life. Or afford hobbies because hobbies were cheap. Or graduate into a job market that was actually hiring. They aren't lazy. They got a different country than every generation before them. And nobody who had it easier will admit that.

@OrevaZSN Why. If you don't want the service he is selling, don't tent the home. You whine more than a 2 year old in a donut store

It is so crazy how your landlord’s income is just your money.

@chasedownleads @neppy Oh sorry, here is another life lesson: if you can't afford to live someplace, move somewhere cheaper. You are not entitled to the home you want in the city you want just because you weren't aborted.

@neppy So with 9 roommates you only need to make $6,800 a year Not so hard

Average rent is now $1,900 a month. Landlords want you earning triple that to qualify. Show me the 24 year old making $68K a year straight out of college. I'll wait

@_0ldtimer_ @neppy Who the he'll gets 10% a year raises while still in work diapers?

@neppy 20-21 yr old is the graduate age for undergrad. 24yr olds should be earning 30% more than entry level roles

@DonJuliowwbs @neppy You are.delusional. Everyone does 1 of 3 things after college: get married, move back in with mom and dad, or live with roommates. Thinking u r entitled to a place of u r own b4 providing value to society is a purely liberal sickness.

@neppy Blame rent control. If you can’t make 68k after college you gotta live with roommates. Colleges selling useless degrees is the real crime here

@neppy Does a 24 year old need to live alone? In the 90s we were freshly graduated electrical engineers, 3 of us shared a townhouse. After 5 years of saving we pooled our money to buy a house together with help from family. Once engaged, we bought our own. 10 yrs after graduation.

@OrevaZSN No it's noticing the obvious that while every person may be worth a living wage, every job is not.

It's so wild that people don't see that "raising the minimum wage to a true living wage would cause businesses to close" is an indictment of capitalism.

@redpillb0t The government tried to fix it.

What went wrong?

@BladeoftheS Government jobs don't make stuff you can use, the count stuff and regulate. That's one reason why when a country goes socialist, it's really bad at making anything someone wants, so they 100% govt workers.just make misery

The point of the billionaires isn't to provide jobs, it's to make money In the 70s the Government hired as many people as Private Business Now Private Business hire 5x as many That's the problem, WE should be in control of jobs, of the economy, of the nation Not billionaires