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A Generational Storm Is Coming
Bonner & Partners ^ | May 12, 2015 | Bill Bonner

Posted on 05/13/2015 8:40:08 AM PDT by all the best

Yesterday, we began our high-minded graduation speech to the Class of 2015.

We explained how the young graduates were not only the most heavily indebted in history, but also the least likely to be able to pay their debts.

Median wages have been going down since these graduates were about five years old… So have economic growth rates.

Today, we continue the speech no one wants us to give…

You are heirs to claptrap, nonsense, bogus theories, and trillions of dollars in debt.

The systems, programs, and institutions your parents set up are mostly worthless scams. Worse, they produce outcomes contrary to their stated goals.

Welfare programs do not help people escape poverty; they keep them mired in it.

Health care programs do not make them healthy; they make them dependent on the drug industry.

Defense industry spending doesn’t make us safer; it funds drones, bumbling interventions, and assassinations… and it creates more foreign enemies.

We end up not only poorer, but also less secure.

All of those assertions take more time to explain and prove than we have time for now. But here’s a little example that you will appreciate… 25 Years of Poverty

Under President Johnson, the government set up the Federal Direct Student Loan Program to provide “low-interest loans” (back then, “low” meant 8%) to students.

Private lenders make the loans, but they receive the full backing of the feds.

The idea was to help you afford higher education… and earn larger salaries as a result. And with your increased earnings you were supposed to be able to pay off the loan.

But at over 11% of outstanding debt, the Student Loan Program now has the highest delinquency rate of all forms of household debt (mortgage loans, auto loans, credit cards).

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: babyboomers; college; debt; generationy; studentloans; trends
A society based on debt is doomed. Give and it shall be given unto you. Growth and prosperity come from producing and contributing. A country of takers has no future.
1 posted on 05/13/2015 8:40:08 AM PDT by all the best
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To: all the best

That’s why i don’t take anything and i don’t give anything!


2 posted on 05/13/2015 8:43:41 AM PDT by heshtesh (I believe in Sarah Palin, the rest not so much.)
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To: all the best
NEVER FORGET:



Read an article from Tom Fife and a comment from thefife:Here's Tom Fife's article.
Let us remember ...
There's NO "ENIGMA" ... to Barack Hussein Obama II.

The DemocratsNational Socialists, and FASCIST Obama are DOING IT ON PURPOSE!!!!

We were warned.


Obama tells Russian Leader 'After my Election I'll Have More Flexibility' ( 0:27)




3 posted on 05/13/2015 8:45:09 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Yosemitest

Ayers picked 25 million at the time because it was 10% of the USA’s population.


4 posted on 05/13/2015 8:46:24 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: all the best
a fiery ring ... wait till those in D.C. figure this out ...
5 posted on 05/13/2015 8:48:01 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Do what is Right ... Take This Freepathon Over the Top!!!)
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To: all the best

Egg McNothings for everyone!


6 posted on 05/13/2015 9:04:36 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: all the best
I'm one of the parents he speaks of and I agree 100% with most of what he says.

..but I personally, nor my husband, have done anything to hurt our adult children nor our grandchildren's future..

..I've always railed against the abusive nature of SS and of govt pensions and the ills of Medicare etc...I don't vote in favor of increasing taxes 90% of the time....

yes....its a very bad future for our younger people....sadly, they don't even realize it....

I tell my bamma loving adult children that if they really believe in that arse and his ilk they better get themselves some govt job because at least they'll be in the money and the pensions...if they stay in private industry, they'll be shafted, as all of us in private industry have been by the govt...

7 posted on 05/13/2015 9:24:29 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Yosemitest

yeah, but Romney was like, you know, a Mormon....couldn’t vote for him, no sirreee.....


8 posted on 05/13/2015 9:29:22 AM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry

Romney is a liberal.


9 posted on 05/13/2015 9:32:13 AM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: Yosemitest

Your post better than Ol Bonner’s rant.....Sure glad he stopped sending me all those OFFERS to join his PRIVATE clubs etc etc ...
He’s got more “FRONTS’ than any salesman I ever ran across....


10 posted on 05/13/2015 9:48:35 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory tooooo long)
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To: Yosemitest

“Barack Obama’s parents ostensibly met in a Russian language class. This could have been where his mother was recruited by Barack Obama Sr, who could have already been working undercover for the KGB.”

Yeah, at that time most of the people that studied Russian fell into two groups: Communists and sympathizers (like Lee Harvey Oswald) or people aiming for jobs in diplomacy/intelligence (like Condoleezza Rice).


11 posted on 05/13/2015 9:55:12 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

What’s worse, ... the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF, or ... his choosing and listening to the directions FROM AN IRANIAN SPY ?


12 posted on 05/13/2015 10:07:48 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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