Coping With Hard Economic Times

Coping With Hard Economic Times

 

By Elton Camp

 

Each new generation was richer than the one before

But it looks like that will never be the case anymore

 

It seems young families might as well expect to see

What economists now describe as the “new reality”

 

Their parents came to have a house and a nice car

It will be hard for most young folks to go that far

 

The jobs that are available have become very few

And of a type that only minimal wages are due

 

Benefits largely have become a thing of the past

As have pensions that an entire lifetime will last

 

Many jobs that were available to Americans before

Have now be “outsourced” to some foreign shore

 

Most manufacturing plants have now been closed

So China can dominate the market, unopposed

 

Even if people, more are quite willing to pay

Little is found that has been “Made in the USA”