[freedomdefender]

Too many young people today have it way too easy

MAny of them are working several jobs to pay college bills. Many are saddled with college debt that will take a decade or more to pay off. With housing prices the way they are these days, few can afford a home (at least on the West or East coasts). So, they have a few electronic gadgets. Why does that earn your contempt?

What do you do with your time to be able to say that young people have it "too easy"? Do you work more than one job? Or are you retired?

[Brad from Tennessee]

A draft doesn't have to be limited to military personnel. Draftees good be put into police departments, federal or state forest services, the Border Patrol, Homeland Security, TSA, etc.

[Publius6961]

What do you do with your time to be able to say that young people have it "too easy"?
Do you happen to know what a non sequitur is?
Try "irrelevant". What does your question have to do with the observation? A thoughtful question, if a challenge was justified, would be "what did you do when you were in your 20s"? Of course, the answer to that might just dig you a deeper hole.

Do you work more than one job? Or are you retired?
Do you have time to camp all day in front of a toy store? Did you ever?

[ilovew]

I agree. And it's the young people today who VOLUNTARILY sign up for the military, they don't have to be forced into it. I don't know why it's so popular on this forum to trash young people. What if I went around saying, "Retired people are so damn lazy. Why can't they do anything?"

[pandoraou812]

Thank you for explaining it so well. Many young people would rather play video games because they are too young for the bar scene or they just don't like it. Many can't afford to go out all the time because of all their bills. Here in NJ car insurance is very costly. I don't know how any of my children will be able to buy a house without years of saving after paying off school loans unless they get help from us. If there was to be a draft I would suggest that they take the ones who drop out of school 1st. I think the draft is a bad idea because I remember it. All too well I remember the college riots and I was only like 9 or 10 yrs old. I think forcing the military on someone doesn't make for a good soldier but then I've never had to serve. I do remember parents ready to send their sons to Canada though.