Posted on 06/13/2011 2:17:17 PM PDT by Hojczyk
One of the many frustrating aspects of the political scene is that most young people have been voting for Democrats, even as the Democrats sell them down the river, mortgaging their future to pay off today's constituencies. By the time our children are stuck with the bill, with interest, liberals like Anthony Weiner, Barney Frank and Barack Obama will be long gone.
But these poll data suggest that some youngsters who voted for Obama in 2008 may be sadder but wiser today:
A new poll found that a majority of younger voters disapprove of President Obama's handling of the economy.
Well, so do we all. But there is more.
Young people made up about 18 percent of the electorate in 2008, and Obama won this age bracket by 34 percentage points. The president will be hard-pressed to do that again in 2012.
Forty-four percent of respondents disapprove of the president's handling of youth unemployment while only 31 percent approved....
Unemployment among young people, including college graduates, is stratospheric.
Seventy-seven percent of poll respondents are delaying major life changes due to economic restraints while 27 percent said that they were delaying going back to school or entering professional training programs.
In many instances, "delaying major life changes due to economic restraints" means not moving out of Dad's basement. Today's younger generation may or may not have a future; that's the bad news. The good news is that most of them realize that, and a large percentage understand that economic growth of the sort that can only come from a vibrant free market is their only hope.
Not my nephew and his wife...
A younger friend of mine is about to graduate college; his older brother continued on to a good Texas law school and graduated second in his class and has aced the bar exam.
He has no job offers whatsoever.
My friend was about to follow the same path (their father is a lawyer) but has decided instead, since there are no likely job prospects for him when he would graduate law school, that he will go into the extremely lucrative title running/landman business for the oil industry for at least a few years until Obama is gone and the economy settles out. Most of his classmates are staring down the barrel of enormous student loans they can’t pay back for years assuming they can find a job, which they can’t.
Two things are apparent from this:
1. We’ve apparently reached the saturation point for lawyers.
2. Obama and the Dems have screwed up the economy so badly that their former voters can’t get jobs but they can’t qualify for welfare or unemployment either. They are seriously unhappy about now.
It is called the pain of a bad decision.
As with any generation, some get it and some don’t. The young generation isn’t a toilet flush by any stretch of the imagination.
As if anyone younger than 65 has any right to talk anyway.
After 4 years, those who were in the age group of 18-24 are in the 22-28 age group and there's a brand new bunch of dumasses in the 18-24 group.
Roger dat ... ;)
I know some older people I should send this too...maybe it would shame them into using their brains.
Whether the young are getting it or not about Obama I will say that they seem to be predisposed to distrust those they view as “old” white guys.
Why wouldn’t the under 65s have room to talk, especially after they ended the damage the over 65s did from 1935 to 1975?
This thing about the young being liberal is fairly new, in 1972, the youth vote went for Nixon by a wide margin.
See post 11.
Had an interesting conversation with a young man last Saturday. He looked around 25 yo, bi-racial, had tattoos. He saw my bumper sticker that says, “No Obamanation: Against Socialism, For American Values”. He looked at me and said, “I agree with everything your bumper sticker says.” We had a good conversation. He admitted the Obummer was no good and had fooled him into voting for him in 2008, and he said he wouldn’t be making that mistake again. I came away thinking, “the healing has begun”.
WTF are you smoking?
“Whether the young are getting it or not about Obama I will say that they seem to be predisposed to distrust those they view as “old” white guys.”
I am one of the old white guys (well, mostly) and I don’t trust them either!
the younger people of today have never known a world as an adult where they could get a job and make a life for themselves.
They voted for change... they just didn’t know at the time that it would be a change for the worse.
My mom will be 93. I’m pretty sure she voted “R”, but she did say something like “Well - Obama has a lot of the same ideas as FDR had, and he got us out of the Depression.”
At 93 I’m not going to argue with her. My dad (RIP) hated FDR (and JFK) with a passion. So obviously can’t lump the “old folks” all in one mind. But, a lot of them liked FDR, and that thinking probably brought us the likes of JFK and Johnson and the “Great Society” as well.
It’s a national tragedy what is happening to these young people ....and to a lot of other older folks as well. Although now my own 19 year old is suffering, and he wasn’t able to vote last time.
But I don’t feel the LEAST sorry for them. I lost count of how many nasty looks, comments, and arguments I got at work as I argued with so many of them prior to the 2008 election. They mocked and ridiculed Palin every Monday a.m. after their Saturday Night Live viewings ... most of them sneered when I even merely mentioned that it was not wise to head our country in this direction. I was the silly old “white lady” conservative at work. One of the rare ones.
I hope they all rot a while ...at least suffer enough pain that they NEVER forget that their vote had consequences.
Yes, they were the American generations that chose an “El Presidente for Life”, even his attempt to take over the Supreme Court was overlooked, the 1935 to 1975 era was the darkest era in American history, and it killed us, there is no recovery from the JFK, Teddy, 1965 immigration act possible.
The brain washing of students are now intensified in the school system. I hold little hope that enough of them will be informed that their liberal criminals in power have shoved them under the bus. The realization may take a few years but when they learn being in debt and unable to get credit for major purchases will be coming. So, youngsters, soak up the freebies like student loans etc, it will catch up to you.
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