I, too, was on my own at 18, and so were most of my friends. We had our own little apartments, jobs and cars. Now my friends’ kids are in their mid-20s to mid-40s and are still living at home. The few who aren’t living with their parents have several roommates. Not one roommate...but three to six roommates! Many of those still living at home are unemployed. Some have college degrees but either can’t find a job or they finally found a job at Starbucks after a long search and are grateful to have it.
This is very ominous, because young people are not going to be able to get married and have families because of this. And then what? Right now they’re living off the wealth of the Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers, and what happens when that’s gone?
Americans really, really need to get with American jobs.
We have been exporting jobs for so very long, we no longer get, that is a way to eliminate our own nation from the lead.
America needs to bring back jobs. American jobs.
Stop buying everything from China.
What do you expect? College costs have skyrocketed to $200k for a four-year degree. The economy sucks. There is lettle to no private construction projects. Those that did have things going in the right direction as recently as 2007 had the value of their homes and investments cut in half. Now with Obamcare, companies have cancelled health insurance policies and cut their hours back to less than 30. Right now they’re living off the wealth of the Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers, and what happens when that’s gone? My kids are 26, 31 and 32 and all are now on their own - through hard work and sacrafice, but it has not been easy for any of them. Conditions out there suck, and its my generation's fault for allowing it to happen.
” Right now they’re living off the wealth of the Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers———”
You missed an entire generation that was born between both of the ones you mentioned.
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There was much talk during the '50s and '60s of a so-called 'social contract.' If one was willing to work one could get a reasonably well paying job.
To whatever degree it was true, it most definitely is not true now.
It's been replaced by a 'social formula,' if you will...go to school, get your degree, and you will get a reasonably well paying job.
What, oh what, could possibly go wrong? Where does one start?
“Right now they’re living off the wealth of the Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers, and what happens when that’s gone?”
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