Posted on 04/29/2017 5:47:43 AM PDT by Wolfie
Think a lot of it just depends on who your friends are, how old you are and if you think there is such a thing as a bad word (I don’t, except Gods name in vein). Most of corp America these days curse a lot, including or especially the women.
Good luck to you!
I certainly agree about rent, which is astoundingly high here in Seattle.
My LOL moment was actually aimed more at the author, Karl Denninger, a middle aged man, who wrote some stunningly immature things in the posted article, like...
“What if they've decided that they may as well get stoned, drunk, or just cruise on through life and accept less because they know you rigged things against them, you intended to and are trying to screw them and they see through it?”
The generic "you" in that sentence does not refer to any American Conservatives I have ever known, even when we were children.
And, that sentence completely disregards the demographic reality that almost half of the 18-30 age group are Black, foreign born, or the first generation of foreign born parents, and they vote 80% for the Democratic Party.
Funny, Atlas Shrugged was my first thought too.
Thanks - assuming I’m not laid off in the next 5-6 years I should be good - and that is extremely unlikely.
I think his point is previous generations of conservatives had a good chance. This wave of kids don’t really, so why expect them to ever be conservative or to accept what they’ve been fed?
So true. What I could do with the $ the government confiscates. I could hire several people or spend $ on stuff but nooooooooo. The government spends that $ on purple drank and Tide detergent for EBT and casinos for SS/Medicare recipients!
These are spoiled children who have no work ethic.
I think Denninger forgets that as well. Spoiled children with no work ethic aren't necessary rational.......
Since 1968, young white voters have consistently voted like their parents, except about 4%-5% of white youngsters vote Libertarian.
In 2012, young white women voted 48%-47% for Romney over Obama.
Trump did less well, obviously, but that was because of character issues, not political or economic issues.
The only thing that has changed politically in the last 50 years is the ethnicity of the voters, and the fact that non-whites vote 80% for the Democrat Party.
The characters in Atlas Shrugged had spent considerable time under a system where they could be rewarded for their efforts, until the Government became so large that it was no longer possible. Young people today are faced with a system completely rigged against them, by both Parties.
“It appears that those who are a bit older have a choice to make: We either put a stop the financial rape-room games in our economy aimed at young people — right damn now — or the rot that is building will ultimately destroy us when the government funding assumptions collapse.”
So what method, other than central planning, are those that are a bit older going to make a choice?
That’s VERY different, IMHO, than just stating we need to end the government monopoly on primary and secondary education and let the market and parents have choices as to how their children will be educated.
Y’know, as I turn old and gray, I think I would love to trade working around the house for my commute and my hours behind a desk.
Room, board, a working Kindle, and little pocket money and I might happy. Degraded, maybe, but happy.
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