Posted on 03/13/2016 8:54:51 AM PDT by walford
Who gave birth to the me generation?
Especially liked that last one!
Regards,
There are a wide variety of people in the millennial generation. Some of them were homeschooled, some were just made to study and work hard. These people will become highly successful and rise to the top of society.
My niece and her husband are both 30. They own a house, and are in the top 10% of US household income already. They are both qualified for many high-paying jobs.
Millenials are a lost generation. While the baby boomers were not looking the socialist school system got these kids early and most will be socialists their whole lives. They hate Capitalism and rich people are evil. White people are too entitled.
Dr. Spock, Dr. Hoffman, and Dr. Pincus
That bears repeating. You cannot inflate, tax or tariff your way to prosperity, although you can assuage your injured feelings by those means.
it would be three times more disappointing if you knew what freedoms we had and the mix of the population of the USA in the 50 - 60’s...I was born in 1949...absolute best times to be a child and adolescent!
Killing wrote a wonderful poem about that. If you’re not familiar with The Gods of the Copybook Headings, you should be.
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm
Dear millennials,
I’d very sorry to inform you that we’ve already really screwed you over. If you JUST count the on the books national debt (excluding the embezzlement of public employees with unfunded retirements and benefits), you owe the world one really nice house in most of the country (or a small condo in Los Angeles) - roughly $350,000.
By the time you come into your full power, that debt will be closer to $800,000 per actual taxpayer.
Before you imagine that you’ll have the cushion that my generation inherited, I’m sorry to inform you that it is already spoken for. With non-dischargeable debts like student loans and medical costs, odds are that the family home will be sold off and the entire proceeds used to pay those end of life debts.
That free college you wanted? We’ve already spent the money. Free healthcare? Already spent. That seed money to start a business? It is going to the government and guaranteed lenders.
/s/
Your ancestors.
On point 4: the U.S. poverty line is at the 85th percentile of world incomes.
If you’re below it, welfare will easily take you well above it.
I bookmarked this one. What a great article.
And who was it that got suckered by these fools and raised their kids accordingly?
Not me!
I am old enough to have been raised by Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, and Dr. Howard.
They have been saying that about every generation born during the post WW 2 era. The truth is that one learns to deal with the harsh realities of life through hardship. Hardship in general has not afflicted any generation from the boomers to the Millennials. America simply has gone soft.
LOL. Cursory view of TV listings don’t show The 3 Stooges anywhere on the hundreds of cable channels out there.
Probably The 3 Stooges offends the sensibilities of our TV programmers today.
Yet these same people in charge of TV today, think it’s perfectly fine to have awards shows with oral sex jokes, and sitcoms which push homosexuality.
Times have changed, and not always for the better.
Perhaps because they were Jooooooooooooos.
Far too many times I'm saddened by an author's inability/unwillingness to use modifier words like:
"a few millennials".
"some millennials".
"lots of millennials".
"far to many millennials".
"most millennials".
"a majority of millennials".
Such modifiers allow millenials to possibly agree on the issue without assuming that the author includes them automatically.
....And we saw the fruit of this “spoiling” this past Friday night in Chicagoland.
America has “gone soft” since the end of the “Cold War”.
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