[Hodar]

These kids were bums before the economy turned south. They don’t want jobs, they aren’t looking for jobs, so the job market doesn’t really impact them.

That's a pretty broad brush you go there, pardner. May be the case in a large number of cases, but there are also plenty of cases where people just can't catch a break.

[discostu]

Like all things in a nation of 311 million there will be exceptions to the rule. But by and large the failure to launch generation failed to launch 10 years ago, the economy has had no impact on their general lack of ambition. Yeah some folks can’t catch a break, but the ones like my nephew-in-law have their hands in their pockets they don’t WANT to catch a break.