I still feel a great sense of shame being a part of this generation.
“Job prospects are so bad for recent graduates...”
Oh, no, no, no!
We’re assured by the current administration and its media lap dogs that everything is now booming and the economy is getting back on track!
Quite frankly, young people are beginning to wake up from the government-induced coma they have been in for the past 5 years. And most importantly, younger Americans are realizing they have to pay for the policies from which they thought they could only benefit.
Just wait until we hear the howls from this demographic when Obama and the Democrat/GOPe congress reinstate the draft for both men and women this time. With the continuing destruction of the armed forces you know it is just a matter of time until that happens.
And then... Well then I expect them to be used in war both domestic and international as an distraction from the government caused chaos from the last decade.
This generation has been subject to relentless left wing propaganda in school, on television, at the movies, and in music (if you can call it that). I am afraid it will take more than a few months to undo this.
The left wing media are already spinning their problems as the fault of the evil Republicans who have obstructed The One and been mean enough not to pour more $billions into food stamps and unending unemployment welfare benefits.
I think the best we can hope for is that they will turn out in smaller numbers for the 2014 midterms than they did when Hussein was on the ticket.
the reason that these clowns are sitting in their jammies is that they are collecting an unemployment check and not actively looking for employment....and the Demos want to extend it even further.....give me a check every week and I’ll watch a lot of t.v. and sit on my butt....perhaps play a little golf......cut off the check and two things happen, My boss can no longer pay me under the table because I now have to account for my greens fees, and he can legally claim me as an employee....of course I’m now responsible for paying my “fair share” in taxes which I have not had to do for a couple of years.....PATHETIC !!!!!
The author may have forgotten about the administration's much vaunted "Summer of Recovery". Remember that they and their lapdogs in the media pushed this ridiculous lie for well over a year, while unemployment was actually climbing.
When it became apparent that they could no longer hide the dismal numbers, they conveniently changed their method of counting the unemployed to exclude those who'd quit looking for work.
While all that smoke and mirrors was going on, most conservatives and other clear headed adults realized that the administration could only spin the rotten economy for so long. People looked around themselves and noticed how many of their friends and family were suffering real economic deprivation.
Notice that the MSM has toned down all talk of the economy now. If they mention it at all, they usually call it a 'tepid recovery' then quickly move on to other things.
This is why paying attention to generational trends is necessary for political strategy.
Each peer group has among them influential individuals who can recognize the political and economic realities, as opposed to the media propaganda, and can logically guide their peer groups toward more reasonable decisions.
Millenials are the largest birth group, year by year, in the population. More than 65% of them will be eligible to vote in 2014.
The peer pressure among millenials is moving them rapidly against liberal policies and against Democrats, however strong their public school leftist indoctrination might have been. They are feeling the very real effects of a growing poverty, with the gloomiest economic prospects since the previous Great Depression, and the very real impression that they have been victims of the greatest sucker game in history.
I see less and less of these young people sporting facial piercings. That may seem like a trivial point, but I see it as a huge shift in the generational mindset.
The millenials are the next generation of the Hero Generation of WW-II; those scruffy, ragged, disillusioned Depression Era kids who rose up, showed up, united and fought together to defeat the NAZIs and the Japanese.
It’s okay, Charlie Kirk. Everyone is optimistic on New Year’s Eve.
/sarc
There was a time when a young person could walk to his first no skill job and get started on his working life.
Modern communities just don't allow that anymore. Nothing about government-directed community growth over the last 40 years has helped get the young off to a good start. Zoning boards put residential districts miles from commercial districts.
And the deregulation and tax reductions of the 80's and 90's did little to address the regulatory and payroll tax barriers to hiring. Regulations concerning employment and payroll taxes actually increased!
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.
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.