So what do all these millennials plan to do to improve their future prospects? Band together and vote for Democrats?
So what do all these millennials plan to do to improve their future prospects? Band together and vote for Democrats?
I will be 69 next month. I am still working, because I want to. Pulling down 80K annually doing part-time work. I do not need to work, but it gives me structure and I still have enough free time to do what I want.
No body said it was going to be easy. Get with it if you want to succeed.
Also, there is no job that is beneath your perceived status.
Furthermore, just because you went to college and graduated doesn't mean that you know anything. Anything at all!
Everything will turn out fine. Millennial weenies can move into the baby boomers’ houses after they die, suck the marrow out of grandpa’s bones and sell Che t-shirts at yard sales.
It wasn’t the boomers. It was well before that. It was Wilson, the creation of the Fed, it was abolishing the gold standard. It was FDR and his socialist nanny state.
But since no one studies history, they have to blame it on someone. And by doing nothing, they also have themselves to blame.
My advice to them:
1) Quit living large on student loans while getting a worthless degree.
2) Get a job, show up on time, and do the work assigned.
They would see a revolutionary change in their collective lifestyles.
As always, I’m annoyed that it’s assumed that millenials are left leaning. I’m the youngest millennial, 24 years old, and I’m not relying on someone else for my retirement. Also, the article talking about alcohol, drugs and other bad health decisions, well those are DECISIONS. If people aren’t taking care of themselves that’s on them.
People long before “boomers,” voted for the policies in question.
GW Bush suggested entitlement reform, and the nation quickly said heck no.
This will be the next major front in the Left’s War of Division: black versus white, gay versus straight, women versus men, Muslim versus Christians and Jews, and now young versus old.
We once owned the world, now our main export is whining.
It’s a lot easier and more satisfying to blame someone else for your shortcomings and failures than it is to pick yourself up and try again.
How exactly did the Baby Boomer’s have anything to do with the Creation of the Welfare State and the Coinage Act of 1965??? The Beginning of this Disaster.
So when does welfare run out of money?
Perhaps this author can show me where the Old Folks clothing store is located ? Heck. Exactly what are old folks supposed to wear ?
One of the points of being a good steward is leaving something behind better than how you got it. ‘We’ have failed as a country at doing that for a long time. Every generation fails in some regard. Those failures add up. The compound interest on failure is a ruined country.
Wife and I both retired at 62 - didn’t blow everything while we were working because we wanted to have a comfortable retirement - part of being prepared for tomorrow is to not blow your whole wad today....
The name Alicia Munnel rings a very bad bell. I think she is a hard left academic.
I mostly blame free trade and globalism. We allowed too much production and good jobs to go to Asia/China. Plus Mexico with idiotic NAFTA.
This was going to happen anyway but much more slowly. Washington DC swampers, Wall Street and the powers that be greatly accelerated globalsim and the rise of China via free trade. Thus our economy is too much of a hollow financialized economy. Where rising home prices are a huge deal as far as one’s wealth.
-—they often dress or party as if they’re still in their twenties.-—
I have friends that graduated from the University of Tennessee party school that dress and party as if in their twenties and they are in their very late 70’s.
In a meritocracy, wages do not increase for those who do not merit a raise. The coming wage inflation will change that but the raise will not be of benefit because it will be part of the general inflation.
The general inflation will devalue both student loan and the federal debt