My beef is with the ghetto types. They are bringing America down. This can exclude many blacks, and includes many other colors. Is this racism?

Misread this as "sandwich shops" and my initial thought was, "why do people always tell me about their political beliefs when I'm buying lunch?". It happened again today. I bought a falafel pita and was lectured on God and Turkish politics.

Does this happen to other people? No? Just me then?

Pita was just ok.

I got this last week at a deli. Some old guy just walked in and started telling Hillary jokes.

Everyone but the owner ignored him. She pulled out a Hillary sticker, gave it to him, and told him to hit the road. Then she apologized to everyone there, saying the guy had been making the rounds of area shops. She knew he would show up so she picked up a Hillary sticker and was ready for him.

The interesting thing is she is a hard core Republican. She just doesn't like her shop being used as a soapbox for nut jobs.

The Trump campaign version of boots on the ground.

Wage disparity growing in north America is not helping much either. It is an absolute reality as well. Below a certain level of income combined with a lack of enough education is a bigger problem than in the past.

Going back to my earlier times say a woman working at a food counter might make half as much as an electrician. Today the electrician might earn as much in one day as she does in five.

Should this much differential be there in a balanced society? The electrician may also have surplus finances in comparison and invest them. Over the years the differential results can be very serious.

Functional poverty might be in some ways harder than in the past although it has always been there. It surprised me to find out that some people and there families do not even have enough money to eat reasonably.

While food is a very minor percentage of income to our family for example. We do not even have any ideal of our weekly average cost of food.

I know schools perhaps do not even educate children the same way anymore and there are vast distractions from reality provided as well. What becomes of far too many of these children when they grow up?

Functionally they have no real self confidence or abilities to do almost anything in the range of necessities. This is getto growth stuff not for all of course but for too many.

In Canada as an example far too many are remaining home with their parents well beyond the age when the vast majority of our members got out into the real world. I am not sure if it is them or the current system that has made this happen.

How bad is it. We have an extra house we want to see gone. It needs work. Every young couple that approaches us when asked if they can do the work say no. They have to use contractors.

I get the same response when I ask if they have friends that could help them out as well. It is just not economically feasible to do this on the place with contractors. Personally at their ages I would have jumped on it. As would a lot of my generation.

Cheap, easy to heat, Large lot etc. Yet it could sting you if you tried to do the work required with only contractors. It is ten k to re shingle a roof and the place should have new windows and doors and siding. Plus kitchen cabinets. With some rewiring.

So it will just go to an older guy that rehabs houses and someone will pay a lot of money for the place. We are in no hurry so I still have hopes a young couple with some abilities may surface yet.

Todays generation seems to preffer to pay two hundred thousand with a long term financial commitment. Everything seems to be based on monthly payments.

I cannot bother to explain to them how a deal like this gets them off the endless treadmill much much faster. They just would not comprehend it. The concept of some sweat equity is beyond them as well it seems.