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No job, no house, no kids: Welcome to the millennials
Sacramento Bee ^ | April 25, 2014 | By Phillip Reese

Posted on 04/25/2014 6:52:10 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Move to a red state.


101 posted on 04/25/2014 10:37:25 AM PDT by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: dalereed

Here’s the one who coined the phrase, if you can spare the time: https://www.facebook.com/drjamesdavidmanning


102 posted on 04/25/2014 10:41:16 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: dalereed

You’re mean when you’re loaded.


104 posted on 04/25/2014 10:44:43 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Genoa

I haven’t had a drink in 32 years.


105 posted on 04/25/2014 10:45:56 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: dalereed

So you’re this way all the time!


106 posted on 04/25/2014 10:46:44 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: dalereed

ROTFLMAO!!


108 posted on 04/25/2014 10:48:36 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I have been meeting 40 year olds with worries about their future without their parent’s juicy income. hehe


109 posted on 04/25/2014 10:49:16 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Government schools are the root of the problem, IMHO, kids are fed nothing but fantasies and twisted propaganda from the get to. In the best case both parents working and worst case a single parent household, there's very little if any counterweight and correction of what they're fed. The last time I even heard of government schools teaching history and civics with any connection to reality was in the mid-eighties and it was fading fast then.

"Millennials" are a product of the school system the American public abandoned them to and it's the people the age of their parents and older who should have known better than to let Federalized government schools spend more time with school age kids than their parents do.

No wonder they went nuts for Barry, they've been trained just like Pavlov's dogs to salivate, cheer for, and fall madly in love with whatever MTV and the media shove in front of them and the government schools did everything they could to equate the "hip" politicians of the democrat party with the same people they cheer for at concerts and in movies. They've had it drilled into them that it's all about the latest fad and celebrities so the democrat fascists make whoever they want elected a fad (easy to do if you have the media in your pocket) and a "hot" celebrity (easy to do if you have Hollywood in your pocket).

Reap what you sow, as they say. Yielding the schools to the democrat fascists was yielding the future to the democrat fascists but putting government schools back under State and local rather than Federal control has never been worth the sort of fight future generations deserve if we're going to ever have a Constitutional Republic again.

JMHO

110 posted on 04/25/2014 10:49:56 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: lacrew
A lot of people are coming out of high school and college expecting to get a really nice job right out of the gate.

Yup, nailed it. Before I retired a while back, I interviewed prospective employees for open positions. Just one example of many, a young gal fresh out of college demanding I offer her more money for a starter position. She wanted some $30G more than the position offered. Argued with me as I nudged her out of the door. Another guy, in his fifties, was very pleasant as he offered to do whatever it took and would take anything. I hired the old guy, and he worked great. Too many spoiled young people expecting more than what they're worth.

111 posted on 04/25/2014 11:05:33 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: Grams A

VERY GREAT ADVICE GRAMS!!!!


112 posted on 04/25/2014 11:36:23 AM PDT by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: roadcat

I don’t completely blame those that have been spoiled. Somebody had to spoil these young people - and that is where most of the blame lies.

I tend to think the advent of the student loan system has coincided with this phenomenon.

Want to amaze a college student? Tell him student loans haven’t always existed. That’s right, we were fine for almost 200 years without them. Smaller programs existed during the space race starting in 1958, but Sally Mae didn’t start until 1972.

And for some reason, if nobody asks you any hard questions about repayment, you begin to believe that its not an issue...and eventually students think there is an implicit guarantee that completing a 4 year degree on leftists studies 101 equals a good job and a middle class lifestyle for the rest of their lives.

And the program has expanded rapidly in recent years...as have unrealistic salary expectations.

And its not just the loan program. People’s tv sets are full of class warfare politicians and slanted entertainment - leading many to believe they ‘deserve’ a middle class lifestyle.


113 posted on 04/25/2014 11:38:39 AM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: gaijin
why do so many crabby freepers hate young people...?

????

114 posted on 04/25/2014 12:13:28 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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To: gogeo
why do so many crabby freepers hate young people slackers...?
115 posted on 04/25/2014 12:23:01 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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To: Kit cat

First broached this subject with one of them when he was a teenager and just beside himself over a particular girl. We were on a ski lift in Colorado headed to the top. Was going to be a long ride and I knew I had a captive audience. He later asked his dad if I had really told him to keep his zipper zipped when he was a teenager. My son said it was all he could do to keep a straight face when responding “Yes - you must have been riding alone with your grandma on the ski lift today”.

God provides the place you just have to recognize it as such and jump in.


116 posted on 04/25/2014 12:46:12 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Millenials are facing a "perfect storm" economically. At the same time that they are being taught that our nation can afford to increase its level of socialism with such nonsense as Obamacare, one billion people in India and another billion in China are becoming more productive and seeing their lifestyles improve.

The future of Millenials will be harder if they ignore the reality that an eighteen TRILLION dollar debt indicates a problem, but even if they reversed all of the mistaken programs of the past, the competive pressure I noted above will likely dictate a slowly decreasing standard of living. Reality sucks, but it doesn't suck as much as failing to recognize it.

117 posted on 04/25/2014 2:45:15 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Millennials bump for later......


118 posted on 04/25/2014 6:49:23 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: gaijin

Absolutely correct. Romney won 18-20 year olds, IIRC.


119 posted on 04/26/2014 7:33:02 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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