Posted on 07/17/2014 7:31:50 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
American millennials, ages 18-29, are one of the largest, most diverse cohorts in the nation’s history.
Fifty-six percent self-identify as Caucasian, 19 percent as Hispanic, 15 percent as African-American or black, six percent as Asian, and four percent as another race. In contrast, 73 percent of their parents’ generation, the Baby Boomers, are white, 10 percent are Hispanic, 11 percent are black, and four percent are Asian.
Millennials are also more likely to be members of families who have more recently come to the United States. The Pew Research Center reports that 14 percent of millennials were born outside of the United States and 11 percent have at least one immigrant parent. In contrast, only five percent of the Baby Boom generation had at least one parent who was foreign-born. Millennial nativity is actually most similar to the generation born before and during World War II, many of whose parents came to the U.S. during the immigration wave of the late 1800s.
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IOW, they are uninformed.
I may not like their conclusion, but it sounds pretty accurate.
There’s plenty of hypocrisy to go around.
What about what I posted?
Which state should decide federal policy on abortion, and gay marriage, and the homosexual agenda, and other “social issues” at the federal level, in immigration, federal employment and benefits, the military, federal hospitals and medical facilities, and in foreign policy, etc?
I think you deflect accurate criticism and over simply the facts but that is my opinion and you are entitled to yours.
They are the result of a total non-critical thinking education and are intellectually lazy to the point that they will not take the effort to be better informed and make better decisions.
They shouldn’t be “at the federal level” to begin with.
The feds should have the borders, military, federal courts- that’s about it .
States can worry about their laws.
Why do you keep ignoring my posts?
I keep asking you about that very topic, ""Which state should decide federal policy on abortion, and gay marriage, and the homosexual agenda, and other “social issues” at the federal level, in immigration, federal employment and benefits, the military, federal hospitals and medical facilities, and in foreign policy, etc?""
90% of what the Feds do isn’t enumerated in the Constitution for them to be doing.
Amendment X: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”
Marriage and family law isn’t in there. (Nor alcohol or drug prohibition.)
If you like your all-powerful, all-knowing, one-size-fits all federal government, you can keep it.
At this point you just seem to be pushing the left’s social agenda, since you refuse to support blocking it at any level, for instance gays and abortion in the military.
The feds have been making policy regarding military service and marriage since 1780, the Continental Congress of 1780,the Congresses of 1794, 1798, and 1802 probably all had a pretty good grasp of the constitution when they were passing federal law regarding marriage and the military.
You think the military and the feds don’t have medical concerns and hospitals, should they have abortions there?
What about homosexuals in the military, what about federal employment, what about marriage and immigration, or abortion and the gay agenda and foreign policy?
You keep inappropriately pretending that this thread was about federal control of everything, when you actually brought it up out of nowhere, and since then have been trying to steer the conversation to that, in an effort for you to express your social liberalism.
Why are you trying to promote social liberalism at the federal level?
Your kids sound great... I hope there’s more of that type than there seems to be.
It bothers me that some conservatives on here abandon the idea of states’ rights the minute there’s a danger that some state will go in a direction they don’t like.
Who has done that?
It bothers me that some here only push support for the left’s social positions, and one way they do that, is refuse to tell us that they support conservatism at all levels of government, including the areas that the feds have jurisdiction over.
If two different conservative views clash, I guess you have to decide which one matters more to you. If you support states’ rights, you have to accept that some states will go in a direction you don’t like. If you insist that all states be run to your liking, you’ll need the power of the federal government to enforce it. So you have to make a choice. Do you believe in freedom, or do you believe in authoritarianism?
Which state should decide federal policy on abortion, and gay marriage, and the homosexual agenda, and other “social issues” at the federal level, in immigration, federal employment and benefits, the military, federal hospitals and medical facilities, and in foreign policy, etc?
Maybe we need Sunday ‘blue laws’ in ALL states- no buying alcohol (or shopping for cars) on Sundays.
And have it enforced by the FBI and ATF.(since the feds have juristictional hierarchy everywhere)
Why even have state laws like capital punishment? One federal law could cover every state.
None of them. Those issues are not for the federal government to decide. Let federal employees live by the laws of the state they live in.
Seriously, you don't know about the military and federal employees and immigration?
The military has the UCMJ to live by. Federal employees and immigrants are subject to the laws in whatever state they live in. They drive the speed limits in their states, right? There’s not a federal speed limit just for government employees.
Don’t be silly, we are talking about marriage and families, and also immigration and foreign policy and abortion, and federal medical care.
Pretending that a Navy SEAL is only married sometimes and not other times doesn’t work, besides why do you want abortion and gay marriage and the gay agenda at the federal level anyway? Claiming that you only want it in some states isn’t much of a fig leaf.
Read post 28.
Actually, yes, you could say “your marriage is only legal in this state.” People would adjust. You’re either for states’ or you are not, and you’re a fool to be against them since having federal laws on these things is working against you. Now you can keep yapping at me like a small dog if you want to but I’ve said what I have to say and I don’t feel like saying it 6 more times because you want my attention.
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