I get it, I'm actually 46 years old. My husband I had 4 children in 1995 and made 12K that year, and still managed to get by, eventually buy a house. That's when the "american dream" was still possible. Now my husband owns his own business and were fine, still living month to month, but fine. My children however don't have the same luxury. The idea the harder you work the farther you get is out the window. All but one of my kids is on their own and that is only because of how I raised them. Unfortunately, it's not month to month for them, it's hand to mouth, and no hope for improvement. The only one left here is my oldest son who no matter how hard he tries cannot find a job, and he is a general laborer !!! He has two children to support, and $10 an hour just barely pays for his car, which is in such bad condition it can't be inspected, and the gas he needs to get back and forth to any temp job he may find.

It's just not the same anymore.

By the way, I'm talking upstate NY .... not much left to save here.