” they forget that many decades ago a one-income household was enough to purchase a home or that you could work a blue collar job and support a family”
Yup. That’s the reality they face.
When you pour 60 million people into the country over a 40 year period and keep letting in 2 million more every year it ends up in absurd prices for housing and low wages because of the intense competition.
Bull Schiff. The financial destruction is being caused by Democrat and RINO politicians that have created the shutdown of the American economy based on a hoax.
That second graph is interesting all by itself. Seeing age bracket participation by industry. And it makes sense seeing the differences.
“A generation ago, you could work summer jobs on a paper route and pay your way to school.”
Huh? I had a paper route. In Jr. High school. Two generations ago, when college was cheaper than one generation ago. You couldn’t pay your way through anything. And you can’t get a “summer job” on a paper route, because the guy doing it the rest of the year wouldn’t let you have it. I did have a friend do my route for a couple of weeks in the summer when I was away, but that’s it.
There are certainly a lot of silly young people causing trouble and being jerks.
But not all young people are like that. I really do feel bad for the Millennials and those who are younger. You can trace the rot back a great many years, but to grow up in a world that knows only Bill Clinton, 9/11, the Great Recession, Barack Obama’s fundamental transformation, and COVID-19, you really have to feel that these people have the deck stacked against them.
I think about these young people but at least they have time to recoup, given a decent government that creates opportunity instead of taxing it out of existence.
I also think about the people in their 50’s and 60’s who are making the big savings push for retirement and are losing years that can’t be made up. There’s not enough time for them, unless they work well past than normal retirement age.
The Democrat Party in America is the main catalyst for all this crap unleashed on us and the world as a whole. All this to defeat one man! They’re hiding things so scary and treasonous in nature that they are afraid to feel the wrath of the American people, and will do whatever it takes to beat Trump on Nov 3rd.
“A generation ago, you could work summer jobs on a paper route and pay your way to school.”
I payed my way through (State Uni) school 1984-88. Worked 15 hours M-F in the Uni library and 16 hours Sat-Sun as a line cook, took out student loans, and worked 30 hours/week through the summer while also in summer school. Graduated with 10k in student loans. But tuition was still reasonable. I doubt you could do that now. Maybe at a small community college or online college.
The moronic, Marxist millennials want this country (and western civilization as we know it) destroyed. Many of them deserve what they get if not worse. The few of us millennials that aren’t on board and are still with reality are going to have some difficult years ahead.
Article’s 1st point. Many decades since one income pays all the bills. This has been true throughout my lifetime.
Article point #2 - paper routes/odd jobs to pay for college. Only for community college and that was ~ 40 years ago.
Re: $60k+ /yr cost. Choose wisely. State schools are less than 1/2 that. You can still get a first class education in a good research university. I did.
Re: Millenial whinging - why should I pay attention to someone that says “OK Boomer” to me?
What many believe to have been an orchestrated financial collapse, followed by what many believe to be a sham health “crisis”
Let’s hope the kids are smart enough to figure out that conservatives didn’t want either one.
People always cry about how hard it is now. No doubt. But what they forget is many had homes much smaller than today’s standards. Many households had 1 car, not a car for every family member, including teenagers. 1 phone, no cell phone, no daily starbucks. Materially, families have much more and expect much more.
When I was a stay at home Mom, no income, our lifestyle was much less extravagant.
quote “forget about buying a home in most large cities in the U.S”
well... there ya go! the answer is right there in the article! DONT LIVE IN A LARGE US CITY!
and PRESTO! you can afford a home!
When their safety nets (mom and dad) are gone, they will find themselves right behind the 8 ball.
They’re squandering precious time and effort trying to subvert the ‘system’.
The system they oppose, holds the very success or failure for their entire future. Getting a late or a stumbling start on that is devastating and could irreversibly stack the deck against them.
They will have made themselves wards of the state forever and WE will pick up the tab for THEM, too.
If you got a computer science or engineering degree you wouldn’t have these problems.
They will have to learn to code.
I see the children are blaming everything but themselves.
Most ignorant, laziest, arrogant, self-absorbed vapid generation we’ve seen.
Let them cry to mommy.