bkmrk
It's been said that eventually you run out of other people's money. Today's young people are the "other people".
My son is 15.
He follows Fox and the Market.
Total conservative.
Thinks his classmates are all retarts.
Has a group of conservative friends.
He carried a 3.97.
Plays marching Sax and concert Obo.
Brilliant little fkr.
And who are these angry millennials voting for?
“...wealthier, right-leaning baby boomers and the remaining members of the so-called Silent Generation will once again swamp them at the polls.”
Damn Skippy we will.
Now you kids get back to get back to work! ;)
Living together instead of being married, and especially having children out of wedlock, contributes to worse life outcomes for both adults and children. Illegitimacy is 40% nationally. The breakup of the family for Boomers and failure to form new ones for their children is tied to worse life outcomes for all involved.
Families are the real issue for opportunity, not inequality
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2015/05/26/families-are-the-real-issue-for-opportunity-not-inequality/
Monogamy reduces major social problems of polygamist cultures
http://news.ubc.ca/2012/01/23/monogamy-reduces-major-social-problems-of-polygamist-cultures/
Says one of the people who HELPS create the "conflict."
So why do they keep voting for Democrats?
They are just as much to blame.
Millennials largely made the decision of affluent children to study acting or women’s studies or whatever they felt would help to actualize themselves at expensive private colleges because they were indulged by Boomer parents with plentiful resources and relatively few children to divide them among.
Surely it is not the fault of another generation if those grads don’t find the job market as easily rewarding as has been 30 years on their Boomer parents’ dime.
My millennial daughters are all doing quite well (better than Mom and Dad), thank you, because they selected universities without high price tags and took on minimal student loan debt. They also chose courses of study which produced degrees which are actually marketable and married men who did the same.
One of my sons-in-law actually skipped college altogether and went into a vocational trade where he gets his hands dirty but brings home a bigger paycheck than most college graduates. Imagine that!?
My first job was in a recession and the pay was lousy. I did it because I had to get work experience. I didn’t blame the greatest generation for my problems. It didn’t even occur to me!
They called the Clinton years the 8 year Vacation From History and we paid a high price for that vacation
The Obama year are going to be become known as America’s eight year Vacation From Reality and the whole world will paying the price for this vacation for decades
50 year olds are X-ers, not Boomers.
Instead they think they are being clever & smart by telling the President F you. Claiming that he is a racist, a Nazi, and he is Hitler on steroids. But I blame our educational system for them being so uninformed and gullible.
Why would the young be mad at those older?
We baby boomer types, paid sharply higher social security taxes all these years, in order to fund social security payments in our futures. We also had financial ups and downs and economic uncertainty, paid what at the time were high prices for housing, etc.
And generations before mine had to go fight in a war, in which they weren’t certain they would come home.
Every generation has had ups and downs is the point. Do today’s young people really have it so much worse? It depends on the criteria you want to talk about.
Among other things, many of today’s young adults grew up in homes which are luxurious compared to where their parents and grandparents grew up. Relatively few of today’s young have hard dangerous physical labor type jobs.
We could all say a lot about this . I’ll leave it at that.
Don’t be lecturing us “boomers”...all we did was live our lives, as best we could, under 28 years of liberal/RINO administrations.
It was OUR money they stole from Social Security, and have never paid back.
Tax and spend is what liberal/democrats do...they’re known well for it. Conservatives usually have to finally get in to straighten things out, and then everyone gets complacent and either puts a majority liberal congress in place, or elects another damn democrat for president.
You want someone to blame? Better study your history and look to the government...not the “boomers”. The “boomers” were probably your parents, or grandparents...you blaming them for “ruining your life”?
shaking head
I refuse to be blamed for the lack of self-discipline, lack of work ethic, lack of attitude to sacrifice in the short run to improve the future, and lack of personal responsibility exhibited by so many millennials.
Looking back on living in basement apartments, furniture was the >20 year old hand-me downs from relatives, or wood planks supported by milk crates and concrete blocks. The first 2-3 cars were very used, no AC, crank windows, AM radio.... We did NOT eat out. We did not present ourselves as being more affluent than we actually were. There was a pride in making it on your own and building your life as you went along.
I have worked for many, many years. My millennial children have college degrees, no debt, decent jobs, and they also work hard. They are not sitting around blaming someone for what they “don’t have”. Nothing has been handed to them.
It is too bad that the whiners get all the attention in this country.