Posted on 12/31/2013 3:30:19 PM PST by Kaslin
What you have here is a "closed shop" system of employment on a national scale -- a lot like what you have in Europe, where an entire generation of young workers can't get a job because of all the legal protection their parents have in their permanent jobs.
Makes me wonder if I should waste money sending my kids to college.
Depends on the college....depends on what their goals are....depends upon whether they can withstand the propaganda...we are helping a grandson with college....but, I’m thinking only the community college part...after that, he’ll be on his own...if someone REALLY wants something they will find a way, altho I’m for helping kids avoid government student loans if they are really committed to something that will bear fruit, ie, a good job
They instantly and intuitively understand what Ron Paul is saying to them.
The incessant doubletalk from both major parties just leaves them baffled and disinterested in politics.
Why? You didn’t cause this disaster. The economy didn’t just start at Obama’s election. Bush made it worse with his interventions and Obama, et al, just kicked the spigot open worse.
The idea was to rescue Mainstreet. If Millenials learn anything learn not to trust government.
Jane Fonda isn't a boomer, she is from the Bill Ayers, Beatles, Peter, Paul and Mary, Jimi Hendrix generation.
I don't think the generation that voted an unprecedented 66% for Obama, and refused to serve in the military, is going to be all that.
True dat. All the young people I know still love Barry and believe in the ‘fairness’ only big government can guarantee. They see the GOP as a bunch of out of touch women hating, religiously fanatic old white guys who are so uncool they want nothing to do with them. They aren’t going to abandon big government and the dems anytime soon.
And went on to be great life long supporters of big government policies and were as a group staunch ‘Roosevelt’ democrats their whole lives. I was raised by that generation and while they did some great things they were unrelenting believers in the good that comes from government.
While the article seems hopeful, that hope is based upon naked self interest. Further, I don’t believe they can connect their vote and actions to the policies that are ruining the nation and the west. Hope I am wrong. Don’t think so.
The WWII generation gave us FDR, JFK, LBJ, The New Deal, The Fair Deal, and The Great Society. They gave us the mess we are in. And while they are due accolades for the defense of the nation, they have more than their fair share of faults.
Might their attitude toward big government have been different if the NAZIs they had to fight were their own big government? (as it appears to be now?)
....But the boomers were no help either.
All the names you mentioned, like it or not, ARE a part of the boomer generation.
Perhaps. As you are aware it is often difficult to make good decisions when electing politicians as they lie to you straight to your face. Happy New Year!
Agreed. Far to many Boomers are busy body, self righteous, marxists. And the vast majority of them don’t even know it.
None of them are boomers.
The left (Tom Brokaw) created a non-existent "generation" called the "Greatest Generation" to sell a book, that has created a situation where many people forget the real generation of the 1960s by skipping the generation of 1925-1945 called the Silent Generation.
Silent generation, 1925 to 1945, they were the young of the 1960s, Jimmy Page, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Joan Baez, Bill Alinsky and Bernadette Dohrn, Jane Fonda, The Chicago Seven, Janis Joplin, Bob Seeger, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Van Morrison, Jim Morrison, Jerry Garcia, John Denver, Grace Slick, Pete Townsend, Joe Cocker, Judy Collins, Rod Stewart and so on, the crowd that ranged in age from 15 to 35 in 1960.
Just about everyone that a person thinks was a boomer during the 1960s, was not a boomer at all.
Possibly.
I appreciate a stickler. Generation Y lasted form 1982 until 1999. I did not cross the millenium, as all members were born in the second millennium and 20th century. Yet people call them millenials, and not the actual millenials, those born 2000-2017
I know the boomers are 1946 to 1964, and the Silents are 1925 to 1945, but the more recent generation definitions don’t seem so firmly pinned down.
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