Posted on 05/09/2013 7:19:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Twitter has reduced historical memory to minutes, but think back to what had the political class atwitter last week. Back then the air filled with worry on the left that Barack Obama was losing his juice after the gun-control setback, the sequester backfire and the Syrian red-line roll-up.
The left can breathe easy. Conservatives this week, clearly over the funk of losing to him last November, have resumed their favorite political blood sport: Tearing each other apart. The conservative tribes are at it again over that most ancient of all grievances: immigration.
Here's the rub: Just as this self-immolating civil war resumes, the political left is getting out ahead of the conservatives on an issue that matters a lot more to most people: the seemingly intractable problem of young Americans who can't find jobs.
In Campaign 2012, Barack Obama promised the youth vote a rose garden. What they've got instead, as far as the eye can see, is an employment wasteland. With the right encouragement, this voting bloc could turn against the happy faces that made so many empty promises to them. The progressives are taking note.
The left-wing think tank, the Center for American Progress, published a study last month called "The High Cost of Youth Unemployment." This past Sunday, the New York Times carried a deconstruction of the youth unemployment nightmare, and the Huffington Post built its own piece around the Times's analysis.
After nurturing this voting bloc, the left can see that the millennials and their debt-laden parents will start looking for someone to blame for their off-the-charts joblessness. But while the left tries to defuse this time bomb, as far as one can tell, the GOP's attention to it is virtually nonexistent.
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They voted for Hope and Change.......and they got it.
And how will the moss-backs at the WSJ get jobs for unemployed young workers? By beating the drums for amnesty, that will bring 15-20 million more low-paid workers into the economy. Cheap labor is always the answer for the WSJ.
Just building a massive constituency for a humongous WPA 2.0 Federal jobs program in a few years.
So, the journal thinks the GOP is wasting its time trying to prevent the passage of a pending bill which would increase the deficit by 6 trillion dollars when it could be out trying to score political PR points. Gotcha.
Of course there’s no correlation at all between unemployment and the 20 million illegal aliens filling the country.
It’s The Wall Street Journal’s fault for promoting unrestricted illegal immigration.
The “young” have only themselves to blame. They voted for this mess . ..TWICE. They were given PLENTY of information and options from which to choose. They CHOSE this socialist garbage.
They are spoiled, misinformed and poorly educated with a poor work ethic to boot. This is THEIR problem. Let them get themselves the heck out of it ...
Face it the youth voted for legalized pot.
And they wonder why they cant get a job...
Not helpful.
Actually, far more boomers voted for Obama than young folks.
So the solution is telling young people that they are to blame for this present economy? That’s your sales pitch?
Wow.
“Denunciations of “government” won’t win them over. How the jobs catastrophe has happened to this generation requires extended Economy 101 tutorials from smart conservative candidates, if they know how. “
Answer: Ted Cruz.
Blame is for Republicans - Obama gets credit for all the youth that have no reason to seek a job and tie up all their valuable time “working for the man”.
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