Posted on 11/15/2009 4:55:08 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
I got called a dusty old fart by one of those younger gems... at 29.
Young people in today’s America haven’t a chance for the most part...
They’re screwed, as our government and politicians completely sold them and the rest of us out.
I agree with you.
Skilled trades would be a good future choice for some but just like most other screwed up aspects of our country, it is not run by capitalism but by the government. The corupt government gets to decide who gets licensed, what the test is about, how much money it costs and who gets to bid on jobs. If it were truly capitalism the best skilled tradsman would get the job.
These spoiled brats will whine no matter what shape the economy is in. They just plain don’t want to work!
I wish I had a particular form of welfare. I’ve never received anything. Not even a student loan.
But I can see that some things need to continue.SS benefits need to continue if only for the reason that so many people have already paid into them their whole life.
Ran into you before...not personaly...but your type of employee...I sat in a room with 100 of you...we’d all been laid off...DOn’t think you’re immune...and We(gen-x) do know what you think of us...Thanks for the confirmation of intent.
Appreciate it bud.
Perhaps if their "boomer" parents had not spent so much on them giving them everything they wanted, including paying for them to go to college, then those "boomers" would have had enough money to retire long ago.
Perhaps if the "boomers" had not bought into the psychobabble school of raising children where "everyone is a winner" and all the other overprotective crap then perhaps these "Gen X & Y'er's" would know the universal truth that life is hard-there is no such thing as a free lunch and no one gives a damn about your "self esteem".
I have to laugh at these "Gen X & Y'er's" who apply for employment where I work and expect 100k to start, to write their own hours, have weekends and every holiday off and get a company car. Needless to say their resume's hit the trash after their interviews.
I have to laugh at my nephew's girlfriend who racked up 179k in student loans to go through law school and party and when she graduated decided she wanted to be a massage therapist. She fully expects her parents to sell their house to pay off her loans and buy her a car. They finally wised up and told her the harsh truth that she is an adult now. She is the one who got the loans, she is the one who signed the papers and she is responsible for paying them back. Taking responsibility for her own actions is something she does not want to do.
So "Gen X & Y'er's"...
You are adults now-get out of your parents basements and wean yourself off your parents wallets. You are responsible for yourselves and your actions. Only children blame everyone but themselves for their own problems.
So after I paid for forty some years into the governmental Ponzi schemes, if I was frugal and managed to actually put aside something for a rainy day and maybe even enjoy a private pension or perhaps a 401K 0r 403B, now you want to add a means test? Fine, just pay back what the government extorted from my salary before I even got to see the checks along with the time value of the money they stole. Otherwise shove your means test where the sun don't shine.
I had no choice as to participation in their shaky scams so don't try and change the rules now.
we will grow our way out of our current predicament.
Yeah, like that's gona' happen! It case you haven't noticed the Fed is busy printing money and the plan is rather obvious. They intend to inflate their way out of the hole they've dug. God help us all.
Regards,
GtG
we’ll just have to sift through them and take the ones that actually get it and hope the rest find employment in fast food,” she quips. Spoken like a truly jaded Gen Xer.
TRUELY SAD TO BE SO JADED!~
I agree but we need to speak this view clearly. This is not a failure of free markets because we don’t have a free market. This is a failure of government run economics.
They can go to hell with him as far as I'm concerned.
How is that “hope and change” working for those who foolishly and irresponsibly executed their right to vote for an inexperienced Democrat who is undermining the foundations of this country.
Um...Pres. Obama is not Gen-X. He's a baby boomer/Generation Jones (born 1961). Gen-X didn't come along until 1965.
Medical debt saw to that for us, but I'm not complaining. God gave us beautiful babies and they had a rough entry into this world. Doctors, hospitals, nurses are skilled service providers who earned every penny we paid them.
What medical debt didn't wipe out, this latest down turn is eating away. Our nest eggs are shrinking despite choosing "safe" options.
I plan to live life now and hopefully drop dead right around the time my children need money for college. I'm worth substantially more dead than alive!
Not bad, but as to the tax, tax everybody. If you are not paying, you have no investment in fiscal responsibility.
They didn’t “pay into” anything. Payroll taxes are just taxes. There is no lockbox, trust account or anything else. The money is simply spent as it comes in - just like the money from income taxes, tariffs, etc. I am no more entitled to something because I have paid payroll tax all my life than I am entitled to something because I have paid sales taxes or income taxes. The idea that paying payroll taxes is somehow “special” is just another government engendered delusion. Social security is just another income transfre program - welfare without much of a means test.
SS is full of IOUs.
Do you understand what that means? It means there is a huge surplus that was borrowed for other purposes.
Think about that.
Probably half of my generation had Silents for parents, not Boomers. They were kids during the Great Depression and learned to be frugal and work hard and passed that on to their children.
I look around and see the half raised by Boomers (of my own friends or childhood friends) all voted for Obama. The half raised by Silents held their nose and voted for McCain. None of them live in their parent’s basement.
It was a tough decision with a lot of risk. I was unemployed for 10 months and drew on unemployment benefits for a month before getting a contract position in the same industry, but a much smaller and friendly company. During those months of unemployment, I panicked a few times, especially at the thought of possibly losing my house.
But I never regretted the decision to leave. It was the right thing to do for me. Now, I'm going to be offered a full time position at this new company in January, doing things I'd never be able to do at the old place.
I’ve thought about for 30+ years. It is just a scam. The IOUs are not marketable government securities. All social security promises, when you cut through the lies, is to transfer massive amounts of income from younger generations to older generations through taxation. It has never ever been anything else.
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