Millennials need a dose of reality

Fox News ^ | 4/3/2019 | Carol Roth

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Under President Trump, things are going very well in America. After experiencing 2.9% economic growth in 2018, we are currently enjoying structurally low unemployment, with historic lows for people of color, and close to 7 million jobs that have yet to be filled. Wages are up, inflation has remained in check and while there are always exceptions to the rule, overall, people should be feeling great, right?

Well, millennials missed the memo and feel like they haven’t participated in American prosperity at all, Charlotte Alter claims in a Time Magazine cover story on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y..

Alter, who is herself a Harvard grad, the daughter of a famous journalist and TV producer and the sibling of a venture capitalist, unironically writes in a tweet: “People our age have never experienced American prosperity in our adult lives— which is why so many millennials are embracing Democratic socialism.” This on the back of a quote from Ocasio-Cortez in the piece that says, “’An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity,’ she says. ‘I have never seen that, or experienced it, really, in my adult life.’”

Whether this is an attempt at gaslighting or pure delusion, in America, things are so good that many young people don’t know the difference.

Ocasio-Cortez herself, who has spent most of her adulthood under the Obama administration, says that her current gig in Congress is, at age 29, her first full-time job — one that notably pays six figures. She attended a university that costs, according to estimates, more than $70,000 per year for tuition, fees, room and board. Even her signature lipstick, which gets a shout-out in the piece, retails for $22. This is hardly the profile of a person who

[1Old Pro]

They walk in with a degree and a closet full of participation trophies and think they should immediately start playing a role in the management of the company.

It's been like this for at lest 5 years or so. My niece, about 5 years ago, walked into a NYC publishing agency with her degree and trophy, offered a great starter job and declined, thought she knew enough to run the company. Amazing.

[headstamp 2]

[[I am with you there! Yet I don’t remember being miserable nor pessimistiCc about the future, even with Carter’s “misery index.” I don’t remember my peers being miserable or pessimistic, either.

It may be because we weren’t that far removed from the realities of life.]]

“We were closer to the land” and much more grounded. We were also surrounded in most cases by adults that also went through tough times and always related their experiences.

This is the missing component today. No perspective, lack of self control and too much emotionalism.

[NFHale]

“...Millennials are the result of 50 years of liberal indoctrination...”

While that is true in the macro, in the micro there are things that all of us can do to undo some of it.

Coach little league for one. Take kids to the rifle and pistol range for another, in groups, with the folks you shoot with. Get involved and do the one thing that you can do.

My kids turned out really well. They can smell liberal BS a mile away, because I made sure of it. They push back.

We can’t change everything, but we can ALL make differences within our own personal spheres of influence.

Just the same way OUR parents did with us.

[Red Badger]

THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE RULES THE WORLD.....................

[Old Teufel Hunden]

To your point, in most of these cases I don’t necessarily blame the kids. I blame we the parents who failed in the raising of the AOC’s dominating our culture. Not all kids will turn out good to be sure, but good parenting turns out more good kids than bad.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The work-around for that which this HR lady said firms are using is to offer Millenials jobs with impressive sounding titles, but where the tasks are basically entry-level.

Entry Level Senior Project Manager, for example.
Basically a paper-pushing admin job.

[grania]

I hate grouping whole people by their age

So do I. In the case of millennials, from those I've encountered, a lot of them get it that they have to figure it out and make responsible decisions now. There's no longer many if any sure paths to the future. There are those who have wonderful family lives, buy houses they can afford, don't spend on things they can't afford, and are respectful, hard working and pleasant. Then, there's the others....

[Drew68]

Baby Boomers and their "Greatest Generation" parents: Voted for Big Government socialism at every opportunity. They put in place policies that would send every blue-collar manufacturing job to China while importing an army of slave-wage foreigners for the few that remained. They oversaw the quadrupling of the cost of a college education while mandating that every job that paid over $10 an hour require a degree. They watched the cost of health care in America increase to the point that a simple broken arm could bankrupt an uninsured family and now want healthy Millennials to pay their freight in health care costs.

People love to bash Millennials. Me? I'm surprised they're not all voting for socialists! I'm going to LMAO when they gift us with socialized medicine!

[Buckeye McFrog]

I am influenced in my opinions by the many Millenials I speak with, 80% of whom are Kool-Aid swilling delusionals.

[backwoods-engineer]

EXACTLY RIGHT. Children raised by a single mother have problems that, by and large, children raised in a healthy 2-parent family do not have.

My kids were raised in the latter (homeschooled too), and thank God, are productive members of society and not lazy.

[Stravinsky]

I’ve had friends who have whined about the older generations not up and retiring so that they can take their place at the top of the totem pole. The concept of experience having value is entirely lost on them.

[KC_Lion]

You said it better than this Millennial could have.