More millennials are moving back home - and it's making everyone depressed:

[Dexter]

Yes, we know, by not giving it all away to Israel.

And a bunch of other countries.

And the U.N.

And to the EU in the form of protection.

And to the military-industrial complex because they bribe congress to pay for hardware we don't need.

[RoosGirl]

And a bunch of other countries.

And the U.N.

And to the EU in the form of protection.

And to the military-industrial complex because they bribe congress to pay for hardware we don't need.

Ahh, you want to cut our military back also.

So, free college.
Save the rain forests.
Raise taxes.
Reduce military.

Friends, I think I've heard this song before.

[Dexter]

Ahh, you want to cut our military back also.

So, free college.
Save the rain forests.
Raise taxes.
Reduce military.

Friends, I think I've heard this song before.

We should also build a giant ass wall and kick out all of the poor foreigners so only Americans have access to the cool shit we do.

[RoosGirl]

We should also build a giant ass wall and kick out all of the poor foreigners so only Americans have access to the cool shit we do.

I think somewhere along the line you're lying to us about what you really believe.

[Dexter]

I think somewhere along the line you're lying to us about what you really believe.

You think I actually want to let in a bunch of poor foreigners so none of it would ever work?

[RoosGirl]

You think I actually want to let in a bunch of poor foreigners so none of it would ever work?

I haven't figured out yet which part of your story you're lying about.

[Dexter]

I haven't figured out yet which part of your story you're lying about.

 

[roamer_1]

Millennials were born into an America that's hard to get by in when you're starting from the bottom. They didn't ask for that; they had no choice. Blaming them for struggling is cruel and unfair.

No harder than ever... Just that millenials believe the indoctrination they've gotten from the schools, and believe they have a right to success... and that has left them utterly incapable of withstanding the pressure it takes to make it happen.

[roamer_1]

Young people don't struggle like they do here in places like Sweden.

Then go live in Sweden.

The sun is always shining somewhere over the rainbow for you, ain't it?

[roamer_1]

It's harder than it used to be. I think that's something older Americans don't give attention to often enough.

I am 56 and busted flat on my ass. And disabled. But somehow I am coming back... in the same environment as you.

And no, it isn't harder than it was - It is much the same.

[roamer_1]

Yet it's still expected a lot of the time, and a lot of young people are suffering a lot because of it. Young people work ridiculously hard. Suggesting otherwise is an insult.

LOL! no.

[Sanguine]

I addressed all of this already. I respect your opinion but I don't think you prioritize the needs of your nation highly enough.

y


You have no idea what my priorities are. 

[LMAO]

There seems to be a belief here that you have a “right” not to struggle a little bit when you’re just starting out in the adult world

I won’t go into details what I had to do to put myself through college and what it was like when my wife and I were just starting out in life nor that of my parents or my grandparents.  But young people starting life kind of on the rough side until they enter their peak Earning years isn’t unusual or unique to the millennials

[roamer_1]

If they accepted the same standard of living common for someone starting out a generation or two ago, there would be no problem at all starting out.

But when big screen TV's and the like are considered basic necessities, it is no wonder you start with a struggle.  What percentage of their salary goes to the vehicle compared to a couple decades ago?

That is sorta right... But not really. That is not the thing. They are not equipped to find or fix.
I have no money, but I have a big screen. In fact, I have two... and one of them is a monster that I got busted and free. fixed it, and it works like a champion. I could flip it for a few bucks, or keep it, because I am only into it about $30 total.

Same with cars... I am currently moving on a late 90s 1T 4x4 with a busted transmission. I will pick it up under a grand, and it will cost me a few hundred to fix the transmission... Because I can fix the dang thing myself.

What is missing is the wherewithal to be content and live within their means.
I am still busted flat. I am still living on less  per month than I used to spend of fancy coffees.
But I eat real good, and I can produce upward economic mobility... because I know how to hunt, and fish, and garden, and because I have or obtain tools and know or obtain the knowledge how to use them.

THAT is what is missing.

[Hoodat]

Young people don't struggle like they do here in places like Sweden.

How can you even say that?  100% of Swedish college students take on debt (student loans) even though their college is "free".  This is 50% higher than the rate for American students.

[LMAO]

Generational wars. Every young person since caveman times always believed that he’s going to have it rough and his parents had it easy.

[Dexter]

How can you even say that?  100% of Swedish college students take on debt (student loans) even though their college is "free".  This is 50% higher than the rate for American students.

They make much smaller payments to that debt and it disappears after a certain amount of time. Young people are much more comfortable in Sweden. In Denmark people get paid to go to school.

https://mic.com/articles/110302/this-country-is-literally-paying-students-to-go-to-college#.ykvoJWsfw

According to a report in the Washington Post, under the Statens Uddannelsesstøtte program, all Danes over the age of 18 are entitled to funding from the state for up to six years for post-secondary education. Every student who doesn't live with their parents receives about 5,839 Danish krones (about $900) per month, and they do not need to pay the state back — even if they drop out of college — according to the Post. High-performing students have even more funding opportunities.

[LMAO]

It is a lot harder to get started on the ground floor than it used to be. A lot of that has to do with government policies on pay and benefits; it’s simply a lot more expensive to take someone on at the ground floor in the hope that he or she will develop some strong skills from the experience.  As a result, fewer people can get in through what used to be the tried and true method.

Unlikely a $15 mandatory minimum wage would make that any easier

[LMAO]

Easy to say when you were part of the most privileged generation in the history of the world.

Back when I was a young teen/young adult in the late 1970’s/early ‘80’s, there wasn’t much in the way of employment. Inflation was high along with unemployment. Many of us young men went into the military after HS. My dad worked in the mines on the Iron Range and I thought that’s were I’d go work after HS. Then layoffs came.  When I was a junior in high school around early 80s, the country was in a pretty bad recession. A Chuck E. Cheese’s was opening at the Miller Hill Mall in Duluth and on a Saturday they were taking applications.  There was a line that went outside the mall and just about all away around it of people applying for what amounted to probably 15 positions. I didn’t get hired because I  told the interviewer that I refused to cut my hair if I was hired.  I was not college material out of high school so the only choice for me was to join the service.  But despite all the struggles in my younger years life eventually turned out pretty good

Whatever you may at your age be going through, keep in mind that many of us here also experienced the same. Every generation thinks the preceding generation had it easy

[Right_in_Virginia]

We should also build a giant ass wall and kick out all of the poor foreigners so only Americans have access to the cool shit we do.

You haven't a clue why or how you have access to the cool shit you do.  But after reading your posts, no worries, you won't have it for long @Dexter

[roamer_1]

We should also build a giant ass wall and kick out all of the poor foreigners so only Americans have access to the cool shit we do.

Wait... Is that a giant wall made of regular asses, or a regular wall made of giant asses?

[txradioguy]

You don't think a public option for college education would help put us ahead of the rest of the world? Why not just get rid of public education entirely if it does nothing useful? Why do you think that was done in the first place?

We're already ahead of the rest of the world without free college tuition.  And besies a college educations isn't the end all be all Gold Standard people think it is.  THere's lots of people working hourly wages because they have their "degree" but its in some obscure area that won't get them a job in the real world.

Public education before the unions and the PC police got involved was just fine.

I'm a product of public education and the difference in what is was and what it's become is clear in how your getting your little socialist butt handed to you in this debate.

[txradioguy]

y


You have no idea what my priorities are.

@Sanguine

Clearly our little socialist friend believes in the state over the individual and we're wrong for thinking otherwise.

[mirraflake]

Young people don't struggle like they do here in places like Sweden.

If so great why do they have some of the highest suicide rates in the world? I actually know a few Swedes on FB through my hobby. They all want to come and live in the US.

@Dexter

[RoosGirl]

If so great why do they have some of the highest suicide rates in the world? I actually know a few Swedes on FB through my hobby. They all want to come and live in the US.

@Dexter

Maybe we can set up some sort of prisoner exchange, for lack of a better term.