Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: A Sanders Voter, Weary of Debt at 29: 'I Have Nothing to Lose' [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)I know we sure were: still paying off student loans, earning very little, and delaying starting families. Interest rates were over 9%. The heating bills were hard to pay: 1979, the year I was 29, was the US oil crisis, and most of us had oil-burning furnaces. We didn't have the proverbial pot to pee in.
I don't recall this being a political issue for our generation. We were still in but starting to come out of the hippie era and were used to living lean. We shunned what was starting to become "yuppie" values. And looking back on those hand-to-mouth years, all I can remember is how they were the best years of our life. I just remember great conversations with good friends over cheap wine, with candles stuck in bottles of Mateus and delicious but inexpensive dinners.
* I know college was "cheaper" back then, but it was still very hard, relative to lower salaries, higher interest rates, and the economy in general.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden