Posted on 01/06/2016 8:35:36 AM PST by GilGil
But nothing compares to the latest farce released recently by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the same guys whom we caught fabricating jobs data back in September 2013.
As everyone knows, one of the biggest question marks surrounding the US labor market is the 95 million of Americans not in the labor force, resulting in the lowest labor force participation rate since the mid-1970s...
For Americans between the ages of 20 and 24, the share of those sidelined over the past decade because they were in school increased, unsurprisingly, during the decade that included the Great Recession. What's more unusual is that the share of 20- to 24-year-olds who say they're retired doubled from 2004 to 2014.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
That was a joke on the first season of Portlandia in 2012.
“Come to Portland. It’s where young people go to retire!”
Guess no one is laughing anymore.
HAHAHAHAHA. And some tool will come on this thread to defend government statistics and insist the economy is “improving”.
Most retirees do something to keep busy in the retirement years, some do make money in their spare time.
How many of these "retirees" are selling pot and drugs on the side?
You are probably guilty of some kind of micro-aggression!
I went to a friends kid’s “home” yesterday to help pull some new wire for the kitchen.
5 people 25-30yo’s all unemployed including my friend’s daughter living in a three bedroom house. Every one of them on government assistance. Not a job among them. Shocking.
The are playing ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ in the basement.
Aside from being a silver Spooner or winning the lottery, how do you retire at that age?
Or some other disguised form of permanent welfare?
More inside the cart.
Fewer pulling it?
LOL…”retired” in this case means sleeping in Mom’s basement because there are no jobs. With Starbuck’s hiring more college graduates than they need, the unemployed are forced into “retirement” without ever having had a job. Sick... the fresh load of lies published every week for our consumption by the Democrat media.
Yeah...I saw one this morning with a 5 year old kid and a weeks-old baby under her arm at Walmart logging up a $120 bill. She snuck up that SNAP card and swiped it lickety split. Went outside and got in a brand new minivan.....
She was dressed very nicely and maybe 20....
I hope this economic slide becomes impossible to gloss over well before the election instead of the collapse coming after the election. If it happens after a Republican takes office then it will be blamed on Republicans by just about everyone with a voice. If it happens after the Democrat takes office it will be entirely irrelevant to the future of the former Republic.
I suppose I ‘retired’ at age 18?
They are living with their parents. Why work when you can play video games and your mom makes your bed? Just wait for them to die and take the house.
Are these disabled vets?
I’ve got a couple of distant cousins who got knocked up by guys who have retired by their early 20’s.
Yeah wait until stay-at-home parents die and they found the house they expected was reversed mortgaged down to zero equity
It’s been planned for a long time to turn the United States into a de-industiralized welfare state. This is the goal of the One World Government type people.
Here’s a quote from 1962. He’s off by many years, but it’s still interesting:
“The image of the world in 1987 as traced in my imagination: the Cold War will be a thing of the past. Internal pressure of the constantly growing intelligentsia in Russia for more freedom and the pressure of the masses for raising their living standards may lead to a gradual democratization of the Soviet Union. On the other hand, the increasing influence of the workers and farmers, and rising political importance of men of science, may transform the United States into a welfare state with a planned economy. Western and Eastern Europe will become a federation of autonomous states having a Socialist and democratic regime.
- Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel, invited in Jan. 16, 1962 to predict what the world would be like in 25 years, wrote in LOOK magazine
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