Sounds easy.
Assume you're a 40 something res agent with 20 years in.
Assume you did some foolish things along the way, like get married, buy a house, have 2.3 kids, etc.
Assume you did the Republican approved 'mom stays at home with the kids', so she was out of the workforce for 8 of your 20 years of marriage.
You've been conservative with your money, but boy, when the kids hit their teens, the cost of parenthood escalated, not to mention college.
In that scenario, money is tight.
Who's going to make ends meet during re-invention?
The folks I know in that scenario are cashing in their 401k's (there goes retirement; now they'll work 'til they die), or taking out second mortgages (have to work til you die to pay that off), and talking to their kids about community college (so much for generational upward mobility). And going bareback on insurance. All of this in a mad scramble to pay to upgrade their education (not much in the way of assistance;they made too much money to qualify).
In short, the destruction of the American Dream for many hard-working, honest folks.
Maybe, it's not so easy.
And the part that pisses me off; it'd be one thing if the GNP had been static or shrinking over the past decade - you can't squeeze blood out of a turnip.
But it hasn't. There is much MORE wealth in the country now, so we could afford to help workers transition from one skill set to another, if we had our priorities right.
After all, a strict interpretation of the Constitution instructs Congress to "...promote the general welfare."
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