Illinois

some sort of a favor so they'd be saved from, what, a POC-targeted zip code and a non-living wage? Now I'm triggered, so here goes:

Manged to send the kids off for college degrees. One would have thought TPTB would have wanted to keep ALL the indebted employed to meet student loan debt - Well that didn't happen either, of course! I didn't have any debt on my lowly Associate degree due to savings and a full-time job, not career, JOB, but TPTB ended all the follow-on BS programs in the State, and paid employers, like hospitals and insurance companies a bonus (BAD THING) to hire those that got their education, the same program I was privileged to totally pay out of pocket, on the taxpayer's welfare dime (that part, a good thing).

Should we have uprooted the family away from the kids' aged grandparents and moved out-of-state when one of us is an only child and elderly "fiscal responsibility" is codified?

For three generations at least, as of this date, a month out from our 50th, there have been no broken marriages; neither absent Baby Daddies. Of course, one should never penalize the victims of domestic violence, abuse, or the newborn and the single parent; everyone gets that reward of forgiveness for one bad judgment! Maybe if you play, you get paid more?

Never used childcare either - unavailable and expensive - we worked out schedules to meet the need! Hahaha, about those GOP/RW fundie grandparents - don't get me started!

Certainly I'd be more grateful for mental health care, too, if that could have/would have stopped the never-ending stress of unemployment, self-loathing, and subsequent loss issues; it did not.

My single daughter wants to buy a home and has been pre-approved; she's convinced she hasn't won a bid yet due to misogyny, specifically because she is still single and without kids. Tick-tock and all. As prices climb, I'm worried about her generation getting the $$ squeeze too! Both kids have been working at home and furloughed a portion of their income! Can't wait to find out their employers' plans going forward. Yes, I'm worried the cycle will repeat!

Time marches on, one birthday at a time, until it doesn't... is it any wonder America's age discrimination is on full display and politicians are now coming for the "useless eater" boomer senior citizens' Social Security and Medicare? With DH an essential worker going out into the wild, we make the bills but it would be a toss up to eat, have HVAC, have reliable transportation (both currently used and old), and/or most importantly, an apartment, or have those add-on supplemental health, dental, vision policies and a family doctor too! Wonder if we'll be left out in Joe's revamped/tweeked healthcare insurance/accessibility programs going forward too! Yes, I know about Advantage plans, but, but, and more buts. Meanwhile, we dodge CoVid-19 as best we can! Another stimulus would help, for sure!

Maybe, churn of any kind just made more cream available to be skimmed off the top for the greedy, into the pockets of our GOP representatives, via all those "corporate personhood" 1%ers and wannabes? or would that land me as a non-POC into trouble as a systemic racism denier?