Posted on 07/15/2011 10:23:00 AM PDT by Nachum
As much as I hate to agree, I can’t honestly disagree. Not that hiring foreign is the solution but at least one major source of the problem is located here at home.
Even in the blue collar and farming sectors, today’s youngsters think they’re above it all. I’ve been told that the farm I worked on as a teenager now hires illegals because that’s all they can get to work.
In fact, I blame my own generation for it (I’m 47). After all it was my generation who allowed the 20 somethings of today to expect life to be easy. Obviously its not true of everyone but as a generation we can very much blame ourselves.
Not all hope is lost. I ran into my nephew early this morning and he was on his way home from a 16 hour minimum wage shift at a bakery. He volunteered to work the extra 8 hours because he wants the money.
I am just happy that the Missing Link and his wife (Ms. Missing Link) never had children. I can only imagine what they would have looked like.
The “Boomers” are largely the proximate cause of our current national mess whether social, political, religious, economic or cultural.
Precisely! This is part of my point in my (Return To Babel) article on the real underlying problem, above.
William Flax
Sorry, but that is what it is going to take in the future to stay employed. Good luck!
Not like the public education system bears any responsibility for the decline of our educational system over the past 40-50 years...noooooooo”
And what about the parents who institutionalized their children in government schools? It isn’t as if the failure of our “single-payer” education system has been a secret for the last 50 years.
family reunification must go. The Catholic Church can stuff it if they don't like that.
To put this into a better perspective: The Baby-Boomers failed to teach the children of today.
People today are less likely to have discipline, skills, educations, or attitudes necessary for adult life and that if the fault of their parents and grandparents, the Baby-Boomers.
And this little verbal tantrum is going to get you the vacations, money, hours, and respect that you seem to covet?
Our problems are multigenerational. They have been building for about 100 years. Only a complete transformation of worldview will allow us to solve what’s wrong.
***Even in the blue collar and farming sectors, today’s youngsters think they’re above it all. I’ve been told that the farm I worked on as a teenager now hires illegals because that’s all they can get to work.***
That is because they have more choices, to work or not to work.
Back in 1962, we had no choice. We picked beans for one cent a pound, 98 degrees with high humidity. Thought I was gonna die. I made $5.00 one day. When the weather became dry we picked the same ammount of beans and I only made $2.50 for the day. The owner finally raised the pay to one and one half cents a pound.
The rest of the time I shovled chicken s**t for $1.00 a load. Nasty filthy work.
As soon as possible I got out of there, and found other hardscrabble jobs till I left for the city and had a decent job.
You take the choices away from these kids and they will work or starve, but that won’t happen in our easy welfare time.
My 25 year old child works two jobs. Some young people today have a work ethic.
Thanks for being a case study.
Yeah, because older workers spend too much time only on FreeRepublic.
I am sick and tired of hearing this kind of #%$^ from the baby boomer generation. This generation rode a wave of personal debt into the house of cards credit economy of the eighties.
Being in debt $500,000 with a mcmansion and whatever else you can finance is not the definition of success. Our generation will be expected to work until we are 80 to pay for your social security...all the while knowing that we will never get a dime out of the system.
We sat patiently by while you learned how to work a vcr. We sat and patiently waited for years while you (as management) slowly figured out that the internet was not a passing fad and that email could actually be used for work.
We watched your generation lose every war since WWII. We saw you burn the bra, take the pill and embrace affirmative action. We saw you systematically outsource every single form of production the American worker ever knew in order to finance your lifestyles.
We heard you complain as you got a little older and no one wanted to keep you in middle management. Never mind that you never took the initiative and started your own company or provided a service that was worth a damn. You just wanted to keep your year over year raise while performing whatever task it was that you learned to do 40 years ago (which can now be done on a computer at 1/10 of the cost by a five year old).
Keep whining baby boomers....if the younger generation is so stupid and lazy....why can’t you get a job? Oh...that’s right...ageism...
I was about to post that, but you beat me to it.
Exactly! The youth that had to go through public schools in the last 2 to 3 decades are victims, to some extent.
Greenspan should be lashing out (”hitting” out?) at schools and bureaucrats, not the youth.
JMHO
Seems that same thing has been on alot of minds as well.
New Title
Globalist plans to dumb down America working better then expected.
I am at the end of the BB gen - age 50. Have no personal debt. A product of public schools (Top 10 in my class, took AP classes and tested out of Freshman undergrad courses). Worked for the same company since I graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Math from a small Christian university. Worked my way up the ranks from programmer trainee to Director in the Finance Division of an insurance company (yep middle management). Went back to school in my mid-30s to get my undergrad hours up to 150. Sat for the CPA exam. Passed first time. In my early 40s went back to school again and got an M.S. in Accounting & Information Systems. Am currently running a project to install a large scale client server based ERP system to replace an accounting system on an IBM mainframe that has been running like a fine tuned engine since 1979.
My friends and colleagues close to my age have the same work ethic and financial situation. Don’t know where you found these BBs who have been sitting on their tush for 30 - 40 years and are technology ignorant. I don’t know any of them!
Who were their teachers then? Hint: Boomers
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