[lbo-talk] me, in Truthdig: Our Delusions of Grandeur Will Save the World

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

My parents were definitely not promised anything. They immigrated with four
kids, one of them ill, and my mother pregnant with me (and no money) a
couple decades ago. The few comforts I enjoyed were courtesy of the remnants
of the welfare state.

In the editing process sweeping "*they*s" were turned into "*we*s" to soften
things...

But what about the "new economy" boom of the 90s, didn't that seem offer
something, no matter how fleeting, to college grads?

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:31 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:


> quibble - of course your parents were never promised the dream either.
> Reagan and the depressions of the 80s broke it, and it was
> definitively broken in the early 90s with the white collar layoffs
> that finally sent the message that no collar, blue or white, was safe
> from a good and proper "rightsizing".
>
>