Posted on 04/04/2022 7:08:38 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
Depending on their circumstances. It would be very hard to starve where I live. But I see plenty that would be up to the challenge.
I live in a suburb of DC.
There are a lot of people here who are already suffering, especially if they need to buy gas to carry on their small livelihoods - or rely on those.
What I can see now is you just have a stick up your ass about millennials. I see young people working as hard as we did every day. Are you under the impression that no one under 60 works or builds or produces anything? The difference is that when they go to look for a house, there’s none to buy, or the average cost is at a historic high. I see young guys with 4, 5 deployments to Iraq or Afghanistan under their belts, mentally and physically shattered. At least they’re not being pelted with garbage like the guys coming back from Vietnam but they haven’t had a lazy time of it either.
Anyway, I thank the heavens above I never had children in their crazy world, but who raised these millennials anyway? Or didn’t raise them, I should say. The single thing I do emphatically blame boomers for is thinking that “free childcare” was ever actually free.
Fuel is the key, and the vermin in government know it. A hundred years ago, people weren’t nearly as mobile. Now, society is geared around individual mobility. We’re very vulnerable to control. And predation.
Agree. The majority of youth today want extended “playtime” into their 30’s or later. It disgusts me. Getting married, raising a family, providing a home for a family, is all too much sacrifice and effort and would interfere with the carefree life of a teenager they want to live for another 10 or 20 years past their teen years. Soft and weak.
Hard times make hard men.
Hard men make prosperous times.
Prosperous times make weak men.
Weak men make hard times.
^^^^^ YOU ARE HERE ^^^^^
“I see young people working as hard as we did every day.”
There is no way the youth of today have the same work ethic.They absolutely do not. You must be living in some alternative parallel universe.
There are still lots of young people who work hard and have good heads on their shoulders.
You probably don’t notice them because they ARE working hard, and not mouthing off like the wokies.
I employ a few young people today. There is some good ones. I am not jaded against the young. There are some not so good ones too. Just as it always was.
Youth of today certainly do work as hard as we did..
Part time during high school and college and long hours in most full time jobs.
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Is that true? Who figured that out and on what basis? (not saying it isn't true)
I recall paying $2,000 in taxes on $10,000 income and worked darned hard in construction, six days a week, to make that much. I know without asking that the tax rate isn't 20% anymore.
All these New World Order / WEF elitist pirates like Kapito think that ALL of us peasants, regardless of our ages are a bunch of spoiled, entitled fools who soon will learn our place (according to them); Either in our graves, or as their slaves.
I don’t know a lot of young people, but all the ones that I do know are very hard working and career oriented.
Hard evidence backs up the lower work ethic. A group “Monitoring The Future” has been surveying high school youth since 1975. I personally think the decline is worse from Boomers to Millennials than what these numbers show but its one example of real statistical data.
Boomers Gen X Millennials
Don’t want to work hard 26% 30% 38%
Willing to work overtime 59% 56% 47%
If had enough money would not want to work 22% 26% 29%
I said majority, not all.
Despite what a lot of people seem to think, many of the elderly Black people in the DC area live on pensions they’ve earned through hard work, and they husband their resources well.
But their incomes are fixed. Things are becoming hard on them, and will probably get worse.
And that’s true about a lot of White elderly, too.
And most are probably brainwashed to look to the Democrats for solutions.
Look at the pics of the brainwashed, in Italy, etc., who are lining up....in their MASKS, to get their loaves of bread.
Unfortunately, that’s probably true.
But I think there’s been an ‘awakening’ coming on, among lots of them.
The stark contrast between Trump and Biden should have driven it home to anyone paying even scant attention. It hardly seems possible to screw things up that badly in only 15 months. The flip side is, Biden was illegitimately installed. If that isn’t fixed, stick a fork in it.
You are 100 percent correct. Doesn’t matter that this man makes millions. He is stating the obvious. His wealth doesn’t disqualify him from seeing what’s right in front of our eyes. Given the choice to work or collect checks from home … what did most of these folks do?
You evaluate the statement on it’s own merits. Who said it does not make it true or false. It’s amazing how so many blow it when it comes to basic logical/critical thinking.
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