Hopefully these new basement dwellers will see the same thing and vote accordingly in Nov.
Posted on 02/14/2012 9:00:34 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Hopefully these new basement dwellers will see the same thing and vote accordingly in Nov.
I read every word of this article. I wish I could say this is not true. I wish I could say this report is full of cheese.
But I can’t. Sad to say - this is the reality for millions of young people.
I know. I have a 25 year old and a 19 year old living at home with little to no prospects.
All they have to do is say "We will fix this first".
The Obamistas still deny the Great Obama Recession is the Great Obama Depression for young people. In fact, the Obots think they can "buy" these young people with promises of free condoms.
My daughter just graduated from college in December. She’s never been unemployed since she started college. She’s worked both in retail and in her chosen field (exotic animal rescue, rehab and habitat) and she’s earning a decent living. She knows she will need to be on her own before the year is out, and if that means sharing an apartment with roommates, then that’s what it means. She knows she can’t afford to buy a house yet and that all of her bills are her responsibility.
I have a problem with the victimhood perspective of this article. Life’s not supposed to be easy, young adults aren’t supposed to be able to simply continue living as comfortably as they did when they were their parents’ responsibility, and nobody told my kids they were entitled to only have one job at a time. If they need more money, they either cut out what’s costing them extra or they go get a second job.
How hard is that, really?
Education failure
Yeah, but let’s not forget that it is these very same “young people” that VOTED FOR ALL THIS HOPE AND CHANGE. They have nobody to blame except the person in the mirror.
"Seven years of college, down the drain." - Senator Blutarski
How times have changed.
When I was in college, being an engineer was a respectable career. You sacrificed a social life for 4/5 years and busted yoru butt to got your degree. Then you got a job, refined your skills to align with your job; performed your duties responsibly - and you could plan on having that job until you retired, or found a better offer. Job security was fantastic, and job stability was pretty much assumed.
Today, you do your job, you work your over-time, you refine your skills - and you show up to work to find that your department has been out-sourced to India. Or you find that your company’s profits weren’t as high as some nameless entity on Wall Street had predicted, so you are laid off. Or the company has decided to elimate your department, or you are fired so they can bring in new and cheaper workers to use the tools you have developed. All in the name of progress.
Meanwhile, the Business Degree folk, who gambled on an idea, or made short-sighted decisons remain employed only to screw up again, and again, and again.
The World Economy that the Democrats have championed is a race to the bottom. While the living standards in China and India are getting better - the standards in the USA are plummetting to parity with the 3rd world. Unions have killed manufacturing in the USA; the Teacher’s Unions have killed any chance of our children getting a useable education, and colleges have made a fallacy of the College Degree by offering everyone a degree that has no economic value upon graduation, that students will need to repay the loans they took to take courses in “Women Studies”, “Theater Lighting”, “Wildlife Management”, “Child Development” and “Psychology”
They wanted change....THEY GOT IT!!!
I’m not sure that you understand how bad it is out there, but regardless, whether obama gets another term or not may not matter too much, as I’ve not seen anything proposed by the remaining candidates that would significantly change things.
It’s easy to poke fun at “mom and dad’s basement” and to chime in about laziness, but I think you’ve nailed it.
Education takes many forms, including the “go get a summer job” many of us heard from our parents, to the counselors that sell the idea of lifetime earning being so much higher with a college degree, to the family members who vicariously live their kids lives by sending them to expensive private schools or tolerating a party lifestyle in dorms and frats instead of insisting the first two years be spent at a local community college, while working part time.
And yes, the teachers in the classroom who fill impressionable young minds with liberal mush are part of the problem. But think about it and I bet most of us would agree it’s the family and other influences that are stronger forces leading to “educational failure”.
And to think that a significant number of these yopung people vote for and admire nobama. It will be interesting to hear their tune ten years from now.
“Sadly, those degrees often do not pay off. In fact, in America today one-third of all college graduates end up taking jobs that don’t even require college degrees.”
Employers use a ‘college degree’ the way they used to use a high school diiploma, to screen out applicants.
In the end you may be doing work which anyone off the street can do with about a weeks training.... it is sort of a rigged system.
Colleges make lots of money conning kids into thinking they won’t get past the door with employers unless they have a degree. Employers give out that they will only consider college graduates for work that in fact, can be taught once hireees begin employment.
THAT said... public schools have so far failed students by now that a college degree puts graduates on a par with what HS graduates USED to be
The minimum wage was invented to do one thing; protect white unionized construction workers from competition from black, non-unionized construction workers, who were paid less (blacks were banned from union membership during the 1930s).
The year the minimum wage law went into effect was the last year the unemployment rate of blacks was lower than that for whites.
After that disappointment and looking at the state of our economy, she used some of the student loan that was left over to get herself certified to teach overseas and then started that job search (also took an immersion Japanese language course). Finally, in February of 2011 she was offered a job in Japan and is now residing there and teaching English.
She was living at home, but she really was ready to be out and working and living in an apartment of her own. But, there simply were no jobs available.
She is thinking of staying overseas for another year. I believe she is hoping that Zero will be voted out of office and she can come back and get a job in the U.S. It has been a sobering experience for her, and while she was living at home waiting for some news on her job applications, she started reading Ayn Rand. So Zero ended up making her something of a libertarian.
My oldest daughter has kept the job she had; but, she had a plan which included getting experience in this area and then moving to the next step on the ladder as she was trying to climb to the position that she really wanted to finally end up at. Unfortunately, she has also been "stuck" in that position and is finding that there are no openings in the next level. This is really hitting everyone in different ways.
BINGO! Have you ever seen a recent grad try to fill out a resume? Many can't spell or articulate their thoughts. The majority don't know the difference between "there and their" or, "your and you're".
I believe the Minimum Wage has played a huge role in this....why hire a teenager for a job at such a high wage, when there are adults who are willing to work at that wage?
The teenager working a summer job is going the way of the Dodo Bird, so they come out of college with no work experience, whereas before, working summer jobs actually prepared them better for the real world.
There should be a lower minimum wage for people under the age of 18....ahhhh, but the Unions will never allow anything to put downward pressure on wages.
You forget too the reason for all this shinola is the GOV’T.
It wasn’t that long ago that the man was able to afford the home, car and also allowed the wife able to rear their young; to get out into the real world without both feet being swiped out from under them, and STILL have some $$ left over....
Hell, couples were off on their own, married and happily living the American dream @ 18 (or younger!).
GOV’T and TAXES, as we were warned, were/are the downfall of the U.S. (HELLO Greece... :S)
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