Posted on 07/06/2024 4:58:41 PM PDT by Beowulf9
Whoopi Goldberg, the star actress of Sister Act and The Colour Purple, has come under significant public backlash after she had some harsh advice for Gen Zs and millennials.
Goldberg emphasised during a session on The View, where she hosts alongside others, that they "just need to work harder" if they want to purchase property and provide for their families.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Whenever some says to me "Have a nice day," I usually reply "Thanks, but I've made other plans."
Whoopi has become an old fart. {snicker}
Don’t kid yourself... Factories are not coming back to America or any meaningful industries either for that matter. Our politicians saw to that.
Unless you count marijuana growing as a meaningful industry.
Why does anyone GAF what Whoopi has to say? She’s a rich liberal out of touch with the rest of us.
Whoopi: Still uglying as hard as she can!
Her name is Karen.
I’m a late-eighties baby, and I work my tail off. Full time pharmacy tech (in the most underpaid location in my district, BTW), going back to school in autumn to go for EMT, then bridge to nursing from there. I lost more than a decade in work experience and savings after my kidneys started failing as a teen, and starting dialysis in my early twenties, then a transplant in my late twenties which was botched. I lost five years just from the cascading complications alone. I had $10k for college which was taken by the state when I had to start Medicaid to pay the medical bills, because Medicare wasn’t enough. Dialysis is expensive.
So, I’m already doing the working part. In the last ten years, wages haven’t grown while inflation has skyrocketed. Do you know what I would have given for my current income ten years ago? I’m making the most I ever have in my life and my husband and I are living with my mom, who ALSO can’t afford to live without us there paying rent, and she has a degree! She barely makes more than I do.
I do NOT want to have to wait for my parents to die before I can buy a home... I prefer to share it with them, but the economic situation is making that look unlikely.
Or have you been under a rock?
Goldberg emphasised during a session on The View, where she hosts alongside others, that they "just need to work harder" if they want to purchase property and provide for their families.
She is correct.
TO GEN-Zers & MILLENIALS WHO VOTE DEMOCRAT:
You're complaining about the wrong things. The entire nation is in trouble, and your future is bleak, but not for the reasons you think.
Here are some things you get wrong in the article:
>>> "The minimum wage in 1980 was three dollars and ten cents, it is now seven dollars and twenty-five cents." <<<
$7.25 is the federal minimum wage. Most states have a higher minimum wage. Even in the states with a $7.25 or lower minimum wage, the vast majority of people earn a higher income.
Only 1.4 percent of hourly workers were paid federal minimum wage or less in 2021, only 1.3% in 2022, and only 1.1% in 2023.
In 1980, a much higher percentage (15%) earned federal minimum wage or less. See Table 10.
From 1985 to 2020, the federal minimum wage was equivalent to about $7 or $8, but a much greater percentage of workers earn more today.
>>> "1999, I made $7/hr. . . I purchased my house for $32K. My house with minimal upgrades was appraised at $148K..." <<<
In 1999, the average home price was close to $200K.
>>> Maybe get a ------- grip and get in touch with Gen Z and Millennials and realize that literally none of us 'only work 4 hours a week' to get by. All of us are working 40+ hours, multiple jobs just to pay bills." <<<
People of all ages worked hard and still do. Many of us have had to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. It's nothing new.
The real problem today is that many jobs have been sent to other countries. Many other jobs are filled by foreign workers here on visa. And the manufacturing jobs are long gone. Those are the real reasons your generation and the whole nation is in trouble.
>>> in 1980 . . . . college was $2.3K, it is now $30,000 - thirteen times more expensive." <<<
It's higher today. But, if you adjust for inflation, it's not 13 times higher. In 1980, tuition, room & board at a public college cost $2,550 - equivalent to $7,770 today. By 1990, it cost $5,070 ($9,800 today). Not all of us could afford to live at college back then, either. We commuted.
In 2024, tuition, room & board costs $29,150. Tuition alone is much less expensive, especially in-state.
The real problem is that jobs for college grads are limited. Start voting to bring the jobs back.
To put it all in perspective:
Earlier generations had much bigger problems. They were drafted and sent off to war. You're worried about pronouns.
What you should be worried about are jobs. They're gone. Trump wanted to bring them back. That's why we voted for him. Stop voting your future away!
CORRECTION:
I mistakenly quoted out-of-state tuition only for public college.
For 2023-2024, the average cost for tuition, room, and board for an IN-STATE public 4-year college may be lower:
https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/statistics/
Well, she’s absolutely right in this case.
The “Boomers” and Gen-X were able to work, save up and put a deposit on property. Gen-Y were famous for complaining that they couldn’t instantly have what their parents had take a lifetime to create.
I’ll cut the “Zs” and millennials some slack. The marxists have everything so screwed up that its nearly impossible for today’s young people to accomplish what their parents and grandparents did.
“I will work harder.”
- Boxer (Animal Farm, George Orwell)
No, check the urban dictionary.
millenials need to vote in their self interest, not for liberals and tax and spend policies.
millenials need to vote for conservative politicians.
what is the millenial vote nowadays?
i doubt millenials currently vote in their own self interest.
if so, then why?
if it is lack of awareness then millenials need to educate themselves about economics, inflation, and principles of limited government.
(i will not hold my breath until millenials come around.)
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