Posted on 12/26/2016 3:16:00 PM PST by John Semmens
The number of millennials who have not moved out of their parents or grandparents homes has climbed to a 75-year high of 40 percent. The high-water mark for young people “failing to launch” was set during the Great Depression. Its duplication after eight years of Obama Administration policies is seen by some as a poor legacy for the outgoing chief executive.
One who doesn’t see it that way is President Obama. “The Republicans do a lot of talking about family values, but it has been my policies that have brought succeeding generations under the same roof,” he boasted. “The whole notion that children should go out on their own is an American deviation from our species’ early roots. In the less developed parts of the world it is common for multiple generations to live in the same one-room dwelling. This seems more natural to me and is a goal we need to work toward both for the sake of the family and the ecosystem.”
“A key contributor to this salutary development has been our conversion of the workforce from 40-hour-a-week wage-slavery to part-time temporary ‘gig’ style jobs,” Obama added. “Nearly 95 percent of the new jobs created over the last eight years have fit this new model. It’s been a mutually reinforcing transformation. The income from a part-time job is usually insufficient to support an independent lifestyle. The lower demands on these employees’ time allows them to engage in more leisure activities if they can live with their parents. It’s a win-win scenario.”
The president expressed hope that his last-minute binge of regulatory actions imposing more costly regulations on businesses would “thwart Trump from imposing his workaholic vision on America. In my view, the new generation of Americans doesn’t want or need full-time jobs in order to live in harmony with the Earth. If Trump succeeds in forcing more people to live independently by giving up the leisure I’ve built into the system I believe voters will turn against him and return Democrats to power in the next election.”
Meanwhile, the First Family is in Hawaii enjoying what will likely be their last jaunt on the taxpayers’ dime. The current 16-day trip is estimated to cost more than four million dollars. This brings their eight-year total to a record-setting $85 million. Of course, millennials forced to live with their parents because they can only get part-time jobs are spared the ecologically harmful impacts of even a modest Hawaii vacation.
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And the good news the last time this happened in 1940 they got out of cycle with a war...what will these snowflakes do if that pattern follows and they discover a foxhole is not a “safe space”?
Look at the bright side. Chinese families have 3 generations in one home.
Nice one, John.
Actually it may be a good thing ... adult children should not be left unattended.
Otherwise known as Baby Boomerangs.
Do they make them bring their clothes to the laundry room; are they required to clean their rooms?
Nice.....
What’s ironic is that I lived with my parents until I got married, at 30.
HOWEVER, I had a full time job, bought myself a car, traveled, and invested what I saved by renting my own apt.
I paid room and board, did my own laundry, and helped with the housework, but still had a life of my own.
Not renting my own apt.....
My 2 nephews are about 30 and still live at home.
They are meek. Not assertive at all. They know computers and computer graphics but not life. Their father is a big liberal.
The best thing I did was move away and drive half way across the country. Saw some of the country and the possibilities.
Yeah, but until recently they were limited to one child per couple. No siblings, no cousins, no uncles and aunts.
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