Posted on 01/09/2015 2:24:24 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
Don’t forget the economic slavery, even if one FINDS a job, placed upon them by great/great/grant/etc. parents in the form of Medicare/S.S./etc. It sure isn’t the retired that are paying the burden...
Eh, what are we worried about, just print off a few more trillion. It’s not like Dancing w/, or Sunday Night Football, etc. isn’t placating the masses (bread and circuses)
I can imagine the malaise among young people, especially sharp, motivated ones. Opportunities are seriously lacking, and competition for the few decent jobs is intense.
Retirement itself is becoming elusive for many aging Americans; I know a few that will be working until they die.
I do feel SOME empathy for them, but (IMHO) they squandered, some would say, the best times of the Republic: believing that gov’t would provide w/ XYZ and $$$ instead of relying upon themselves; while only ONE in the family needed to work for the house, the car, the vacations, the college, the...
The young people today, while they have their own votes to blame, inherited much of these problems; they were too young to vote when BJ Clinton took office.
The biggest reason Colleges and Universities are unaffordable is government intervention. The same is about to happen to CC’s and tech-schools.
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