Posted on 11/24/2009 5:18:38 AM PST by reaganaut1
There was a story a couple of days ago about some smart girl from out west who got a mostly useless degree from a prestigeous eastern College, couldn’t get a job, moved back into her parent’s house, but is living in the guest room because the parents already remodelled her room.
The funny part of the story was the parents saying how certain they had been that their kid would make it, and specifically mentioning how she had a signed picture from her visit with Joe Biden.
My younger sister is living with our parents. She has a job using her journalism degree but apparently it doesn’t pay so her choices are a slum apartment, or my parents’ house.
Which sums up in one neat sentence exactly WHY journalists are typically Marxist far-left liberals. They just KNOW that their job is FAR more important to the world order than Doctors, Nuclear Physicists, Accountants or Wheat Farmers, but this evil Society is so danged unfair that it is the Solemn Duty of the Government to redistribute wealth and benefits to THEM so that they will be able to continue their critically important work! /sarc...sort of...
all part of the plan...breeding a huge army of the young and disaffected to take up their places in the Obama Brown Shirts
Er, that may be true but my sister became a journalist because she’s a nosy girl with a weird sense of humor whose idea of “changing the world” is “convince everyone that I should be in charge”. So leave her out of it.
“No, we’re going back to sensible life styles, where the kids work their adult jobs for a number of years while saving money by living at home. That way, they’ll have a 20% downpayment for the house they want to buy so they aren’t enticed to do a no money down paperless sub-prime mortgage. That doesn’t sound backwards, that sounds like progress to me.”
Yes, thank you for posting this as I was about to post the same.
I’d also say that there is no better environment in which to bring up kids than in an extended family home. I grew up in a 3-generation household and being cared for by my grandparents while both my parents were at work is still some of the best memories from my early childhood.
I think the move away from 3-generation households as the norm can be closely correlated with the loss of family values, and the general decay of morals in our society.
Forcing young adults back home? H311! I’m still trying to get one to leave the nest!
Obama is just another symptom of the disease. He’s not the root cause.
Try charging rent on par with the local market. Try not supplying food, laundry services, etc. Make them pay a share of the utilities, etc. In other words, remove the economic advantages to staying at home. Or just kick him the hell out. Then again, when I turned 18, I couldn't WAIT to get out on my own and never looked back. Is it any wonder we're becoming socialists when we have generations of people with no taste for freedom and independence?
Well and that’s the sad part - even those good kids who DIDN’T vote the false messiah are having a tough time.
Boomerang “kids”. Most can’t handle independence. That is independence and responsibility. The parents are weak. The “kids” are not falling far from the tree. It is one thing if they are implementing an unrelenting job search, helping consistently around their parents’ house and have a systematic plan that they are implementing to get out. Anything else and it is enabling parents and weak “kids”. Future Nobama voters?
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