My parents and all other immigrant parents we knew in the 1960's could buy a home, raise a family, drive a car, help get the kids thru school, and some even had enough left over to build a small cottage up north - all on one salary.

Today, two professionals, big incomes, one or maybe two kids.  Difference, enjoy $100's of thousand of future tuition for your kids to earn same degrees, forget about owning the same house you grew up in and a cottage, hahaha.

Why, TAXES, TAXES, TAXES.  Over 1/2 of earnings now sucked up by Justin and Kathleen, and the cost is growing.  And what's left over is devoured by consumption and buried taxes.  Pack of smokes  then, under a $1.00.  Today, $13.00.  Beer, $4.55 including deposit.  Today, $60.00.

We're going backwards and drowning in personal debt and government debt.  What to see what the future holds, look to Britain back then.  A train wreck.