Does the entitlement/welfare/ warfare state benefit the Boomers or the Millenials? Has the massive consumer and government debt accumulated over the last 30 years benefitted the Boomers or the Millenials? Who will vote in massive numbers to keep the status quo? Who didn’t save enough for their retirement so they are not leaving the workforce, keeping young people out of the workforce? Who gets sent to die in wars started and managed by Boomers? During Fourth Turnings the Prophet Generation is supposed to lead and the Hero generation is supposed to follow and do the heavy lifting. Not too much leadership coming from the Prophet generation, just finger pointing, greed and blaming the youth for their own sins. Yes, Boomers have earned their reputation as the Shallowest Generation.
Older generations to the young: Drop dead
The acronym NEET first gained wide exposure last August, when riots blamed on young people “Not in Employment, Education or Training” broke out in London’s Tottenham district. It’s a useful term, particularly with youth unemployment fueling the angst over the European debt crisis.
The NEET rate among those 15 to 24 years of age is 19 percent in Italy, 18 percent in Greece and 17 percent in Spain and Ireland. In the United States, it’s almost 15 percent, according to figures compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Urban development expert Joel Kotkin has another term for this group of young people: “The Screwed Generation.” Writing at his website NewGeography.com, Mr. Kotkin calls these young people “the victims of expansive welfare states and the massive structural debt charged by their parents.”
Mr. Kotkin has a knack for a blunt phrase. In 2004, when he was at Pepperdine University in California, he was hired by the Greater St. Louis Economic Development Council to study how St. Louis could attract young professionals and entrepreneurs. Mr. Kotkin had some useful recommendations, few of which were remembered after he told a Post-Dispatch editorial board meeting, “Your downtown sucks.”
His view of the dim prospects facing today’s young people is rooted not just in NEET numbers, but in studies that show many college graduates are struggling to find full-time employment at a living wage. One study of 444 recent graduates by the Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University showed that only 51 percent of graduates of four-year colleges between 2006 and 2011 had found full-time employment. Twenty percent had gone back to graduate or professional school, but the rest were working part-time or not at all.
Data from the 2010 census show the number of unemployed young people, age 16 to 29, declined 18 percent between 2000 and 2010 to its lowest point since World War II. Nearly 6 million Americans aged 25 to 34 are living with their parents, up 25 percent since 2007. Among families with heads of household younger than 30, the the poverty rate was 37 percent.
Ninety-four percent of them came out of college carrying at least some debt; the median debt load for graduates of public universities was $18,690. It was $24,460 for private university graduates.
It’s not just that companies have been slow to expand, it’s that older workers are staying on the job longer, working at least until full Social Security and Medicaid benefits become available. These are benefits that young people will be taxed for (assuming they get work) but, given long-term budget outlooks, may not be available in 40 years.
And not only are older Americans hogging the jobs and the benefits, they’re voting in large numbers against changing the calculus. Having enjoyed the benefits of post-war prosperity, many older Americans don’t want to pay the debts they’ve incurred, much less preserve benefits, repair the infrastructure or fix global warming.
Screwed is right.
In the 2008 presidential election, record numbers of 18- to 24-year-old voters turned out at the polls. They may not match that 49 percent turnout this year. Their elders vote at rates of up to 70 percent.
It’s easy to understand why America’s NEETs and debt-burdened college graduates would be disenchanted with politics. But they really can’t afford to take the year off.
You can’t fool the kids nowadays; old dogs and and old boomers smell….. bad.
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Ah. those vibrant minnies , on a summer eve , out spreading compassion and brotherly love.
It just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside to know that the teens of today are out experiencing their own summer of love…..it’s certainly a special time.
Cue AWD to C&P some silly shit depicting black spunk ,anuses or fat people.
http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/portland-parkgoers-attacked-by-150-black-teens/
Portland parkgoers attacked by 150 Black teens
Posted on June 16, 2012 by Dr. Eowyn | 2 Comments
Last Wednesday and Thursday (June 13 and 14, 2012) evening, gangs of drunken teens numbering as many as 150, attacked park goers in Portland, Oregon’s Laurelhurst Park.
I found two reports about this incident: The first by Portland’s liberal newspaper, The Oregonian; the second by the Portland police. After you’ve read both, ask yourself which report is the objective one!
John, you cut me to the quick. Actually, I have observed for years that the most active “public employee” union members tend to be overweight. A large percentage are morbidly obese. I guess it makes sense that they be the most active in the unions-no one needs health care more than they, and they probably couldn’t get a private sector job.
As an aside, I got a copy of “Public Employee Advocate” recently. The cover shows Armey, Norquist and the Kochs playing marionettes with Jindall, Kasich, Walker & the Tea Party. Not that there isn’t a bit of truth to that, but I won’t hold my breath waiting for a similar scene with Dimon, Corzine, et al. manipulating Bernanke, Geitner & Obama. Oh well, makes me proud to be forced to pay dues to such an egalitarian institution. Blech.
I think flash confused generational issues with racial issues.
Its ok, when he googled “violent youngsters” this was his first hit, so we forgive him.
PS: He still thinks people are going to his links. Its cute.
Flash, true to form, cuts and pastes (and links) something completely unrelated to the topic.
His schizo brain can’t make connections between what’s being said and the voices in his head. So many threads, posts and topics, and so many voices in his head.
He must be on a day pass from the state hospital, supervised of course.
Why are people always putting flash crash in a white coat?
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for his own good.
flash is back. Now it should get interesting. Grab some popcorn.
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Pissy, I’m not confusing generational issues with ethnic issues, because as history will attest, when the chips are down ethnicity will supersede any other issue, including fabricated generational ones.
I’m sorry your can’t comprehend this , but then again , I don’t expect much from intellectual awareness from an self-absorbed narcissistic moron.
That’s right Pissy , it ain’t all about you and your aren’t special,regardless what your helicopter mom told you.
TPC
“I think flash confused generational issues with racial issues”
I think flash is just confused, which is nice way of saying he is delusional, which is a nice way of saying he’s schizo, which is a not so nice way of saying he’s crazy.
I love watching him try to explain that which his schizo brain does: cuts and pastes, link, link, link. It was last week’s topic, but who cares? He’s living in a different time zone, on a different planet. I hope his psychiatrist can figure him out.
Helicopter mom? He must have googled “pessimistic chemist” and came up with some kid that won awards or something.
Thats right flash, you’re an ignorant dumbfuck and the rise of the search engine hasn’t changed that down the years.
Its cute how badly about yourself my degree and accomplishments make you feel. Don’t hold yourself to my standard my friend, you won’t meet it.
Just keep playing around in the internet, mk punkin’? Daddy is gonna go bring home the bacon.
AWD
I’m sorry but your disease is above my pay grade , but I have Googled a link for you.
http://www.sa.org/
What is Sexaholics Anonymous?
Sexaholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover.
Hope this helps..
And please stay away from children….we’ve enough disturbed kid’s without you creating more.
I’m sorry pissy, but I couldn’t Google you a bah bah.
Have you tried sucking your thumb.I hear that give most insecure kids comfort?
Put some honey on it if it’s been stuck up your ass very long..
Okay?
AWD, tell us more about you fetish with black spunk and men who have wives…better yet…scratch that.
flash says:
AWD
I’m sorry but your disease is above my pay grade , but I have Googled a link for you.
LMAO, he digs the hole, and jumps right in…..
You don’t have a pay grade, boomer dipshit, you’re living off the taxpayer’s aren’t you?
“….but I have Googled a link for you”
God’s own answer to all psychosis, schizophrenia, and delusion: googling links.
No attachments, no relation to reality, no having to think or use a brain that is saturated with anti-psychotic meds. Just google a link. Then cut and paste, paste and cut, link link link some more.
Aren’t you do back at the state hospital pretty soon?
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@John – Fish in a barrel have greater chances.
I almost feel bad for him.
John
You are out of your league…don’t you have dishes to do?
flash bomb:
I suggested you are the one who loves black cock and black spunk. Try some reverse scrolling.
You’re “I know you are, but what am I” logic was juvenile, now it’s pathetic. Can’t you think of something yourself?
Try googling “Mommy, I wish I had an imagination”
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ThePessimisticChemist says: Fish in a barrel have greater chances.
As he picks his nose,tastes, pops one of 8 thousand facial zits and takes a swing of the ever present mountain dew…the hero of the keyboard and slayer of sky fairies has spoken.
We are but to hold him in awe.
AWD, are you implying tha the spunk ejaculated from black men is somehow more disgusting than that of white men and why?
Are you some kind of racist?
The sad thing is that even in your listed scenario I’m still the better man than you.
Poor bastard.
Motion to strip DaveL of his title of “dumbfuck” and grant it to flash?
Flash says “YA HAVE SEX WITH A MINIATURE HORSE JUST ONCE…”
A man accused of having sex with a miniature horse has hired “Cowboy Bob” as his lawyer. Flash the schizo blogger was arrested earlier this month in Alabama. Authorities say flash tied a “pint-sized” miniature horse to a pen and sexually abused the animal.
Flash was caught after leaving his wallet behind at the scene of the horse buggery. This left one writer to point out that this means that Flash “isn’t just a guy who rapes horses” but “the dumbest guy in America who rapes horses.”
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I don’t know much about black spunk. That’s how you make some pocket change, not me.
I stay away from cock, and having sex with animals, and state hospitals and straight jackets. You don’t have a choice do you?
pissy….I once took a dump better than you.
It was perfectly straight and refuse to be flushed.
Maybe if you weren’t such a malleable turd….
AWD says:
I don’t know much about black spunk.
See , now that’s confusing.You bring up black spunk in the comment section of every post and then you claim to know nothing about it.
Is this another of your fetishes?
Taxpayers where on the hook for buying these signs posted around flash bugger’s neighborhood.
Appearenlty it’s allowed at the state hospital, but in “designated areas”
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AWD
Don’t give up your day job for comedy…
Trust me on this one
“See , now that’s confusing”
There’s that word again. You are very confused aren’t you. Try re-reading the thread again, several times, for comprehension.
flash’s favorite sculpture: (he modeled for it)
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damn, im out of flash’s league
AWD – Trust him. He uses google.
John you should ask the c&p king , Anonymous Wussy Dick for instructions on how to posts pics.
You can thank me later
ThePessimisticChemist says:
AWD – Trust him. He uses google.
Well to tell you the truth , there wasn’t a Pissy Chemist search engine available..
flash fried brains
Too bad google can’t restore you to sanity
I’ll leave you בנות to discuss your next swing set triumphant amonsgt yourselves.
There are more important matters to attend to such as pasta salad…
AWD….Be careful of with that rubber doll , you might burn off and inch or your two inch dick
Cut and pasted, and link, link, linked enough for one day? I calms the voices eh.
You can still catch social diseases from sheep, miniature horses, camels, and cows; and an ass full of buckshot from the farmer whose animals you’re buggering.
Time to get back to the bathhouses. You’ve run out of spunk…
That was a classic, guys.
“Google you a bah bah”
See what I mean?
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he will not be gone long….
How do you knock flash out?
Slam the toilet seat on his head when he’s eating some pasta salad.
All things being equal, I’d rather be surfing with Colma or in Hawaii at Makaha.
Nothing can happen that an hour or two of surfing can’t fix.
Now, it comes with free Japanese mutagens.
All this animal sex…who needs boomers???
Flash likes to toss salad
Flash touches himself in lewd places watching C-span…..
And likes to hump the goats in the back yard…..
Did I mention he likes spanking off to PMSNBC????
front and center admin, 500 approaches….
Momo Loves doggies
Theres ya 500….
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I can’t surf. I’m pathetic. I wasted money on a big old log that serves as a raft long enough for it to transform into a giant wave-powered Colma paddle.
The toady kids laugh and aim right for me. Cruel booger-eaters, the lot of them.
I should stick to being a sponge. (boogy boarding)
I just like floating around like a turd in nukilar toilet, though.
A-dub’s right… it can really mellow everything. A weirdly satisfying exhaustion.
I am dying to go to Hawaii, though. We’ve gotten in to watching old Magnum PI episodes on netflix…. don’t laugh until you watch the original two-hour pilot entitled “Don’t Eat The Snow In Honolulu” or something like that…
Anyway, it makes me miss it… bad. At least you can scuba or snorkel or just swim, you know?
The only issue is all the creepy baby boomer haolis. Fucking boomers fuck everything up.
BBES