Posted on 05/21/2024 12:20:01 PM PDT by DallasBiff
The downturn of the pandemic economy has hit many groups hard. But for many millennials — those born between 1981 and 1996 — and Generation Z, who follow them, that pain — plus a number of other factors — are creating questions about who is responsible. Over the next few nights, economics correspondent Paul Solman is going to examine this. He begins tonight from the perspective of some millennials.
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so angry, so self centered, have a good day.
I try to look at things open minded so I can see where the resentment comes from. However, the reality for me growing up as a Boomer in the 1970s was that I had to join the military because I could not afford college. College loans were not as easy to get back then and my parents were deemed "too rich" for financial aid, yet they were lower working class at best. As a child, our big thing was riding our bikes outside because there was really nothing to do in the house. No computers, no video games, no cellphones, no VCR and only 3 or 4 stations on the TV that showed nothing but soap operas and game shows for housewives during the daytime. So you really had to go outside and find your own fun.
Looking back, I don't think it was all that bad but kids today would be incredibly bored with the prospects we had.
I married in my early 20s (few Millenials even think about marriage until 30) and had to work fulltime from that point on and any college courses was done at night on my own time and dime. Bought a house for $92,000 when I was in my late 20s, so that was fairly cheap. But it was a "fixer-upper" that required me to spend the next 10 years redoing pretty much everything befor we considered it "nice."
All in all, it wasn't that difficult for me to build a nice lifestyle as a Boomer but it did take a lot of hard work. I feel bad that Millennials don't believe they have the same opportunities that Boomers had, but generally speaking, they have had much more pampered and sheltered lives than us boomers.
Parents always want the best for their kids. I think us Boomers, generally speaking, went too easy on our kids and did not teach them very well how to overcome adversity.
My own children turned out very well, they have their own homes and families, with very little help from the wife and I. We wanted them to feel like they earned their success on their own merits. Of course, when we kick off, we'll leave them a nice bundle but it feels good to see that they made it on their own and they should feel good about it too.
Same here being an X. My parents were Silent Generation and Boomer mix and were there for us but both had to work to make ends meet so when we hit five or six they would fix breakfast and tell us to stay in the house or yard unless we went to our great grandparents house next door for lunch. We were pretty much on our own until they got home. We learned to make lunches and entertain ourselves. It also allowed for a lot of knock down drag outs among the siblings.
You could blame the generation who elected Woodrow Wilson twice. Or perhaps the generation that decided in the 1840s that letting a flood of immigrants who did not share the majority language, culture or religion into the country for the purposes of having a peasant class was a great idea.
You could even blame the people in the 1820s who decided to change the way the president was elected because a corrupt bitter old coot had his tender little feefees hurt because he could not get elected the original way.
Plenty of blame to go around.
Or we could just try to work with what we have and make the best of it but what is the fun in that?
Good luck! And keep your insults online, where it is safe to be like you are.
You were the one initially hurling insults, I just told you what to do, now get busy.
They have been indoctrinated since grade school that the world is horrible and its all the previous generations faults....
PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE CHILD ABUSE, by and large.
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Not sure what you are taking exception to here. Sounds like you are a genXer.”
—were you offended by being called a genXer?
you then told me to ‘GFY’
Anyway, not real civil, not really an argument and not at all helpful. FYI: Taking 5 deep breaths has been shown to reduce stress and cortisol levels - Lord knows we all need that from time to time.
“Sally, dear, want some breakfast?”
“Yeah Mom, but the Cheerios aren’t here?
“Yeah, dear, I’ll have to go to the store. We get our money from your lazy dad tomorrow. At least he’s out of here for good, right?
Ok Mom, but who’s that guy that’s coming over after supper at night?”
“Don’t worry dear, he’s helping me with some work studies”
“Ok Mom, that’s nice”
“Alot better than your bad mean father. Have fun at school, with all your other friends”
“Thanks Mom bye”
The economy sucks. Their prospects for a decent career are bleak. The society in general is increasingly hostile and depressing.
Somebody messed it up before they came along, so naturally they blame those who came before.
McCarthy was right. The commies were digging into every nook and cranny of society, and now the results are obvious.
These damn kids don’t know what they don’t know. There is no substitute for experience, and these kids don’t have any real experience.
You use one man’s words as proof of another man’s words? Odd. It seems as though you weren’t around hear or experience it for yourself. I doesn’t matter if Buchanan said it or not. Didn’t realize you were actually so young.
The wall wasn’t built because the democrats didn’t want it and most of the republicans were just play acting wanting it. They had no intention of actually fighting for it being built. Also, with the globalist, “One world govt.” Bushes being next in line for the republicans, there was never a chance a wall would ever be built.
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You spelled "Reagan" wrong when you blamed "Democrats" for no Wall.
Watch the debate clip again. Reagan says he wants open borders. And he doesn't want a "fence". (ie. Wall)
https://youtu.be/YsmgPp_nlok?t=91
Reagan never wanted a Wall. Trump's tweet to the contrary was incorrect. You can't find any evidence on video, in print or whatever that Reagan wanted a Wall. Because he DIDN'T !
I'm sorry to disrupt the BoomerCon hagiography of Reagan, but facts are facts.
May God bless you dear Reverend, I feel so sorry for you kids. If you can’t find it online, it must have never happened. And not everything that happens has been uploaded. Even if things have been placed online, they are purposely removing them from searches so that you will never find what they don’t want you to find. It is easy for me to see, because I lived through it, and I see things that I have bookmarked but can no longer locate. As long as you place your faith in modern methods, you are at the mercy of those things which you trust the most (the internet).
I was there and I saw what they did. I saw it with my own two eyes and heard with my two ears but you are at the mercy of those manipulating you. If you can only believe what they show you and reproduce for you in media, you are in trouble.
Just hold on to your hat. AI is coming. They’ll either convince you that the AI is true or they’ll convince you that the truth is AI. You won’t be able to tell what the truth is. I feel so sorry for all of you. Trust God the Holy Spirit for the truth. Man and satan’s deception will fool you without the Lord lighting your path.
I was there. I don’t need your ‘six years from amnesty being signed’ youtube video or your attempt to prove/disprove something Reagan did/said by the words someone else (Buchanan) did or didn’t speak.
If you don’t know where to look for the truth, things are going to get very difficult for you in the future. And that goes for everyone who sees this. This world and its systems is not to be trusted.
“You won’t be able to tell what the truth is. I feel so sorry for all of you. Trust God the Holy Spirit for the truth.”
Well, the “Holy Spirit” isn’t telling me how Reagan wanted the Wall in 1986. But Reagan never said it publically.
What Reagan’s officials have said is the following:
“I don’t think a border wall as such was discussed at the time. Mainly because it hadn’t quite come to that,” said Clark Judge, a speechwriter and aide in the Reagan White House. “If there were other things contemplated, they were never really acted on.”
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“And Lord sakes, people mentioned everything,” Simpson said: vehicles, airplanes, more agents, more money and yes, maybe some physical barriers. He does not, however, recall talk of a wall.
“I don’t think a border wall as such was discussed at the time. Mainly because it hadn’t quite come to that,” said Clark Judge, a speechwriter and aide in the Reagan White House. “If there were other things contemplated, they were never really acted on.”
Yes, it had come to that. Most of the republican rank and file (not the globalists and business/chamber of commerce) wanted a wall and the republican politicians pretended to make sure they felt represented. Even though they didn't really represent them. People felt betrayed back then when Reagan signed the amnesty bill. But they were assuaged by the wall which was promised but never built.
Reagan had people who were with him but didn't like his policies being in there just as Trump did. And the republicans will gaslight same as the democrats. There is one big deep state uniparty remember. There are those today who say Reagan wasn't even trying to be conservative.
I guess that's why all the RINOs and liberals loved Reagan so much./s
“I guess that’s why all the RINOs and liberals loved Reagan so much./s”
Yeah they do, actually. And Blair the same with Thatcher.
https://time.com/archive/6595221/the-role-model-what-obama-sees-in-reagan/
And yeah, I know those parents and their kids. Entitled little f***s that they are, worthless.
My sons worked their asses off for everything they have and can't stand those kids.
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