i'm a boomer. it's simple, the ruling class exfiltrated the wealth of the nation to siphon a piece for themselves. the put the manufacturing (jobs), raw materials, transport, and almost everything in foreign countries so that they could reap the financial benefit of deregulation (labor, environmental, etc etc). we built up all of these regulations here for clean air, water, 40 hours work week, fair pay etc etc, then they naftad (among other things) us into nothingness. then they imported cheap foreigners for things that must be done here and paid them half the rate while you subsidized the oligarchs and the workers with tax money while the state went into hyper debt mode and quantiatively eased the usa into a rich debters paradise. it's gay and i don't know if it's even fixable, i have been pointing out the jew niggerization of industries for two decades and everyone balked with "omg that's a racism". well congratulations, your grandchildren are broke because of jewish antiracism.
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