It is no surprise that a new Gallup poll shows a growing number of Gen-Zers and millennials are becoming increasingly frustrated with the failure of ‘Bidenomics‘ as they struggle with the cost-of-living crisis.
We didn’t need a poll to reveal the frustrations of youngsters working two or three jobs just to afford rent, auto payments, and avocado and toast. The writing has been on the wall, especially on social media feeds of TikTok and X:
The struggle is real for the new generation, which is just now learning that working a 9-5 isn’t as easy as college. pic.twitter.com/FvAeYkTddt
A lot of people seem to think this mindset is unique to Gen Z. It’s not.
Every generation goes through this. Watch Reality Bites, where a group of 20-somethings in the early 90s deal with the exact same struggles and emotions as described in this video.
The Gen-Z girl who complained about the 9-5 work schedule has a comment for Business Insider (which tried to find out where she works) about the stress of finding a job as a post-grad. She’s got a point. pic.twitter.com/4ExfWrELLF
The new Gallup poll of 18-29-year-olds validates the Biden administration, which seemingly cares more about illegal aliens and the LGBTQQIP2SAA community (not sure what all those letters mean), is quickly losing the young vote.
People in that age cohort are more than twice as likely to cite the economy as their top concern compared with older adults in recent Gallup data. And while all voters are more worried about the economy now than they were heading into the 2020 presidential election, the pessimism has spiked the most among those under 30. –Bloomberg
Source: Bloomberg
It’s a wake-up call for the Biden administration. A recent Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll reveals a surprising trend: Former President Trump is leading President Biden 47% to 40% among voters 18-34 in swing states. This is a significant shift from the last presidential cycle when Biden won 61% of voters under 30.
The Biden administration understands they desperately need Gen-Z and millennial support to win in November. They are trying everything in their power to buy votes by bailing out youngsters with student debt (despite the Supreme Court ruling).
Youngsters are coming of age in one of the worst economic periods this nation has seen in a generation. Elevated inflation is crushing household finances.
With the election cycle well underway, there are mounting risks inflation could accelerate once again, and gas prices at the pump are rising.
Bidenomics has been a colossal failure, and young people are seeing that and are furious with the elderly, senile president who should be in a retirement home. Young people are beginning to understand they might never be able to afford the average American home as that dream died a long time ago. These frustrations are showing up in the polling data.
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If she cut back on the thousands in hair dyes, fake lashes, neon nails, piercings and tattoos she might have more money. Plus a better job might hire her if she looked like a human instead of a Japanese manga character.
Also a little bit of vocabulary building instead of F@#$## as her standard adjective, verb.
Here are other things that the Generation Zeros and Millennials blow their money on : $1,400 latest I Phone’s
$9.00 Fancy Coffee Drinks at Starbucks EVERY DAY!!!
Video Games
Eating out everyday at their jobs
Paying $600 for the latest Jeans
Buying $95,000 Pickups!!!
Music Concerts
Sports Tickets
Vacations to the Bahamas when they can’t even pay their rent!!!
Modern urban women are all fancy hat and no cows; lipstick on pigs; they are high maintenance self-centered gold diggers not interest in traditional motherhood and families. If you marry one, she gets to select your financial execution date by some state court.
Immigrant or first generation immigrant is way to go….
old timer had told me back in the days when I was asking him what I should look for a woman..”look, it’s like putting your hand in a bag with snakes, and pulling one out….you might pull out one that snakes bite, one that is harmless, one that can be poisonous , one that can even kill you, at the end of the day …you are pulling out a snake
Who knew that there is such a thing? Bicycles were originally intended for either personal transportation or for transportation of goods from A to B, either with a backpack, bucket or other receptacle, or with a trailer. My Dad still transports lumber, compost or other items that way at the age of 82. He still talks about how happy they were to have their first bike in the family after the war, in the early 1950s. During the war, they only had hand pulled wagons and wheelbarrows.
And now they invented a $2500 bike that doesn’t transport you anywhere. That totally makes sense. /s
Lol , “There’s another one born every minute ” , suckers that is . Who the hell said that ? Oh yeah PT Barnum .It was just yesterday I was opining on the ridiculousness of people in general .
Don’t get your hopes up folks. I doubt that GenZ is going to become Christian Right Wing White Supremacist Libertarians. Most likely they will see their solutions to the left of the Democrats. Maybe I missed something but I haven’t seen much from Gen Z to give me confidence. (including my own grandchildren)
Cliff, If they are not excited, they more than likely will stay home. That will make it increasingly difficult for the dems to pull off the steal without it being 100% obvious to all.
Love the chick that doesn’t want to work 9-5 but gonna start her own business. Set your own hours – Any 100 hours per week you want (plus occasional overtime) to see if you get paid anything. Wait ’til she tries to hire her first employee and finds out how much that really costs…
Stephanie Shepard
April 3, 2024 10:39 am
I’ve been saying it for years. Labor is a business expense. At some point people are going to say it’s not worth it and stop selling their labor for hourly wages.
That is exactly who Biden’s 87,000 new IRS agents are going after. Biden wants 8% interest on underpayments of quartely estimates of income, up under Biden from 3%. That is not going to earn him any votes.
Hell. I would wager not more than 5 in 100 voters know what the hell you’re talking about, nonny.
I had to play that game with a boss who didn’t want to pay payroll taxes.
The carrot he dangled was an annual tax preparation filing on his dime.
What a crock.
Besides quarterly estimates, the contractor who gets a 1099 instead of a W2 at years end is on the hook for the entire amount of the FICA/Medicaid tax.
With W2’s and payroll taxes withheld, that’s a 50-50 split payment between the employer and the employee to the U.S. Treasury.
NO way in hell that any one of the 4 bimbos shown above know about this, let alone understand it.
They need to get a few more years of struggle under their belts before bitching about how tough it is to save and get ahead.
There attire says caviar and cocaine but their income says fish sticks and fentanyl.
Wakey wakey.
F-R-U-G-A-L-I-T-Y
And, of course, living within your means.
Its really about the direct ratio between wages and the price of all things, necessities and non-necessities alike. That ratio has been steadily declining since the USD was taken off the gold standard in 1972. At age 30 my dad could buy a house with 3 years take-home pay that would have cost me almost 6 years take home pay at the same age. Now fast-forward another 30 years to today, same house, and for another 30 year-old with a similar professional job, it’s probably about 12 years take-home pay. Sure, housing is the worst-case example but similar math can be done for everything from a loaf of bread to a gallon of gas to a car. There are only so many hours in our lives, so you can’t blame today’s 20-30 year olds who are expected to trade those finite hours of their lives for 1/2 the value their parents got and a 1/4 of the value their grandparents got.
The real problem is that the alternative is a life of government dependence, which costs the productive citizens more in taxes, exacerbating the whole cost-of-living problem. Yet here we are at the cusp of a total, societal breakdown because today’s middle class is barely better off working than the lower, dependent class that is not working.
When there are more people sitting in the wagon than people willing to pull it, the wagon stops.
Who buys a three or four bedroom ranch or bungalow (1400-1600 sq ft)any more? They all have to have a 2500 sq ft three car garage mc mansion. Filled with a half ton 4WD truck, all wheel drive suv, motorcycle, boat, and snowmobile or jet ski, all leased.
Seems expectations have changed over the years too.
We paid our parents, and they paid their parents, and they paid their parents back to FDR. Who’s fault is it the government made it a compulsory ponzi scheme?
How do you get out of it? Biden’s solution is illegals. That won’t work.
Done. Transfer payments in 2020 were about 60% but now they are about 75% thanks to Illegals. US short Treasury Bond rates were .5% and are now 5%; the Annual deficit was $1T and will soon be $8T; Nat’l Debt will soon be about $40T and the US dollar will become Toast (like French Assignnats, German Meimar Marks). With the Fed playing god with our countries money, if they lower rates now it will cause inflation like a western forest fire, if they raise rates, Powell cuts his dick off, if he does nothing, he watches the sky fall. Never let them implement CBDC FedCoins (Rev 13:16,17). America has to many hogs and to few tits; to many people riding the hay wagon and to few pulling; to many eating and not enough working (2Thes3:10-13); this is not Survivable National Socialism & Communism. Taxing the Rich at 90% for more income would pay the bills for only about a couple months per year; trimming the Budget is necessary; earning one’s living is necessary; I’m a farmer rancher and I look at millions of acres of land sitting idle in environmental set asides drawing government subsidies for Bill Gates, that land should be growing soybeans and speckled peas, or cattle, to sell to china. TPTB are Traitors. We are crazy to allow this.
We are taught to fight amongst ourselves. The poor even if they’re lazy bums, are hardly an enemy. However if you are speaking of politicians, bureaucrats, academics, and Wall Street as the hogs, I’m all in.
Shotgun Trooper
April 3, 2024 10:40 am
That is one angry elf. If we could find 2000 more like her we could take over Disney..
Wow, do you need any more proof how utterly worthless and lazy the Generation Zeros and Millennials are?!?!?!?!
We Boomers worked jobs we hated for 50 years (!!!) so we would be able to retire. And you worthless, selfish, responsibility shirking, blame shifting, lazy Generation Zeros and Millennials can’t even make it one year!!!!!!!!!!!
Dear Jesus, send the Astoroid NOW!!!
Working hard at a job one hates, for not enough to live on is even harder. That’s where they’re at. They also grew up in divorce, no mom home, debased schooling, etc. They did not become useless by themselves. And many are living off social security from whatever’s left.
BTW, I am not one of them, but much older. They will never have what we had, no matter how they work. They’re dumbed down, embittered, infantilized, confused, misinformed, and more; but they didn’t engineer that, and calling them names helps nothing, and makes them hate us more.
The problem is they are blaming those who worked 50+ hours a week for decades. Completely clueless about the Fed, inflation, currency manipulation, government spending and the true causes.
Well, DJT is symbolic of our Revolt because None Of The Above (NOTA) is not going to be on the 2024 POTUS Ballot. And when DJT wins, we hope he goes thru TPTB like crap thru a goose and turns it inside out. MAGA: Marmalize All Government Employees (per se)
She should be home baking and watching her kids, while hubby is out working to pay for it all, in an undemolished economy. It’s not only the economy. It all needs to be dialed back to before her grandparents were born. The dismantling is complete.
She would have to be an entirely different person from who she is today to do as you say … especially the part about children …
Svarga Loka
April 3, 2024 11:12 am
I’d say those braces on the teeth are a waste of money if the end goal is to look prettier.
Mustang
April 3, 2024 11:23 am
The third video down would not make it as a truck driver. Some Drivers work 14 hours a day.
The fourth video girl needs to get some roommates to share expenses with. She is delusional if she thinks she can live on her own making $28,000 a year. If getting roommates is not attractive to her, she needs to go back to school and get into a much better paying field of work.
Instead of filming videos of themselves bitching about how they can’t cope with reality, if they’d put forth some effort the 3 normal looking ones could probably make a living by doing OnlyFans.
They already do. If whoring is all that’s left, it’s over, anyway.
Anthony Aaron
April 3, 2024 11:46 am
Maybe these pansies should have been here about 1980 or so … when the prime rate was about 18-19% … when mortgage rates before buy-downs by developers were about 24% …
These weaklings need to get better spokespersons … it makes them look foolish to have an individual (maybe a woman?) with bizarre eye treatments and hair color and makeup that looks like it was put on with both a trowel and a commercial spray paint rig and 2″ green fingernails whining about how expensive it is … Does she get all of that for free? How often does she dine out? What are her monthly expenses?
No mercy for these twits … they’re having to do the same stuff that we humans have had to do since the dawn of our time on this Earth … they just whine about it a lot more.
Percentages matter, but so do absolute numbers. My parent’s home from the late Sixties was around $26K+. In 2021 it sold for over $1-1/3 million. They’d never be able to afford a third of it now, even with degreed salaries and financial prudence. Also, our mom stayed home ’til our teens in the Seventies and finished college in the mid-Eighties.
Some of these things vary by area. Some costs (private college, healthcare) have gone up faster than other costs. So it’s complicated to assess. In general, though, I think people in their 20’s & 30’s (whatever “Gen” that is) think – because they’ve been told – that in the old days things were easier when they actually weren’t.
I think people in their 60s & 70s think, because they’ve lost touch wirh reality, that things are no more difficult now than they used to be.
It’s always fun to watch parents and grandparents castigate their own children and grandchildren for becoming who and what they were raised to be.
It’s a final desperate act of neglect, abandonment and abuse to protect a self image they never earned before shuffling off this mortal coil.
“Hey, it’s not MY fault my kids turned out this way!”
Sure, sure, it’s probably someone else’s fault.
Say it one more time and let me really feel the morally vacant, narcissistic indignation, thou generations of parental FAIL.
People in their 60’s and 70’s have lived both then and now. Logic dictates that people who have lived during both periods would have more understanding than people who weren’t alive “then”. It’s why most non-sick societies have historically understood elders to have wisdom not yet attainable by the young. When it comes to comparing economic hardship, then & now, it’s mostly simple arithmetic. I remember how much I earned 35 years ago and how much rent was when split with three roommates, for example. I’ll plead guilty to plenty of parental FAIL, if it makes you feel better. Of course many of today’s young who think they’ll be perfect parents will also fail in some ways, but that’s something they’ll only realize when they’re older.
My daughter becoming a queer in college and flunking out for goofing off was not parental failure. She’s still a liberal but she went back, now earns 6 figures, is married and has a son. Maybe if I live long enough…
But that’s not the prior generation fault. They didn’t inflate the costs, send our manufacturing overseas or pass bills for trillions that guarantee reelection votes. The parents did the same thing.. daily grind and responsibility and sacrifice over decades.
Had a PCS from ND to Omaha under Jimmy (D) when housing rates were 19%, thanks Peanut brain; Jimmy also eliminated the GI Bill that we Vietnam Veterans had earned, thanks Comrade Jimmy. Jimmy also got rid of the Panama Canal, thanks asshole. I thought Jimmy was bad until Blow Job Bill, Hussein and FJB. Could have been worse: Gore & Harpy.
John Holmes
April 3, 2024 11:58 am
These dumbasses all rioted for Biden and burned their cities down demanding Marxism. Let them live with the consequences.
Yes, but again, their Fifties and Sixties and Seventies and even Eighties counterparts never would have. What’s changed? They are the fruit of what’s preceded them. Nothing happens in a vacuum.
And they have had indoctrination since infancy… This same mentality is what started the Khmer rouge… blame the hard working and accomplished for your struggles instead of the perpetrators
Born in ’47, I began college in ’70 … marxist indoctrination was alive and in full bloom at the state university I attended in Ohio.
The missing thing from the analysis here is simply where is these youth’s responsibility for their poor choices in life in so many aspects of their lives?
There are young people who are thriving today. Plenty of them. People who don’t have blue hair, 2″ eyelashes and 4″ nails. People who don’t vomit their every thought onto the internet. There are young people who do well despite having had bad parents and young people who struggle despite having had good parents – although all other things being equal, good parenting helps.
Anonymous
April 3, 2024 12:01 pm
They had a Democrat fool on this morning after our local primary saying Trump getting elected would cause job losses and more inflation, exactly what Biden caused, not Trump
She said Biden was working hard to lower inflation, but forgot to mention it was Biden caused inflation. Biden also had proposed a $7.5 trillion dollar budget for 2025 if he is reelected. That should about double the current inflation in no time.
PCS
April 3, 2024 12:17 pm
I see 4 individuals from generation iPhone who have been completely and totally brainwashed as to what life was going to be like for them as young adults because imo they were raised not by responsible parents but by the everything is fake and gay social media industrial complex and now all 4 of them are having that fake and gay world and that was promised to them utterly destroyed by the reality of how the world really works and they have limited to no coping mechanisms to deal with the swift groin kick by steel toed boots they are receiving. And there is an entire generation of these people now entering the workforce.
We have all been brainwashed since the advent of TV. The narrative of ourselves arose from the context of mass media. This is who and what we perceive we are. Socially media has focused ourselves like a magnifying glass in the sun and we attempt to be that little speck of light.
ASIG
April 3, 2024 12:29 pm
I had to look up what all these Gen XYZ were so just in case I’m not the only one…..
Gen Z 1997 – 2012 Age 12 – 27
Millennials/ Gen Y 1981 – 1996 Age 28 – 43
Gen X 1965 – 1980 Age 44 – 58
Baby Boomers 1946 1946 – 1964 age 59 – 77
Silent Gen 1928 – 1945 age 78 – 96
Even those are arbitrary designations of groups by those who seek control. The few may only control the many by divide and conquer. My identity does not belong to them and is not assigned by them. The sociology wing of academia is a de department of Tavistock/MK-ULTRA/Langley.
As I understand it, there is another one inserted between ‘boomers’ and gen X called Generation Jones. Apparently its from 59 to 69; it actually makes sense as that group is really too young to be ‘boomers’ but much more connected to them than Xers…
Iska Waran
April 3, 2024 12:31 pm
The most notable thing about this bitchfest phenomenon isn’t whether they’re right or wrong thinking that “it’s harder now than in the old days”. It’s about people (mostly young women) whipping out their phone and broadcasting to the universe whatever they’re thinking or feeling at that instant. It’s only going to go viral if you say something really stupid or ridiculous. Social media is causing narcissism to go through the roof. Going through your day thinking that anyone cares what you think is a form of insanity.
The narcissism was there all along … the smart phones and social media merely enable it to reach a much larger audience … total AGB (attention-getting behavior) …
ASIG
April 3, 2024 1:19 pm
Not only has the standard of living in the US been in a steady decline for decades, it is now set to plunge off a cliff.
“Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the production of others. “Government money,” of which one hears so much nowadays, does not exist; there is no such thing.”
― Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
“All the power [the State] has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another; there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure, leaves society with so much less power.” ― Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, the State
The real problem is that these youngsters still believe in .gov as an answer in the first place (along with the rest of us). It’s time for Americans to see much more than just what Rep. Grayson says above.
For shits sake maybe if you didn’t look like a looney toone clown off a kids cereal box and clean up your public school indoctrination verbal skills just maybe you could find a job with some upward mobility !
Oh lose the tongue ring shit for brains !
Who wants to kiss a cunt with a ring in her nose like a pig or cow?
hardscrabble farmer
April 3, 2024 3:19 pm
We’ve raised 3 Gen Zer’s and our home has always been open to their friends as they were growing up. With two or three exceptions over the years, virtually all of them have been the polar opposite of those examples above. I realize where we live plays a big part of how they’ve turned out- cities and suburbs are toxic place for healthy child rearing experiences, the former being dangerous and chaotic, the latter being the epicenter of atomized isolation, further exacerbated by the hustle and bustle consumer lifestyles attendant to both.
The fatherless gremlin in the first clip can’t even fathom how her freakish appearance and slow-motion self immolation creates an inability to advance beyond the entry level stage of working life.
I have said this before and I stick by it the more time passes, when history looks back on this time period they will shake their heads at the docility and ignorance of what once were classed as adults. More than their frustration, it is their prideful stupidity that stands out to me, all of their decisions having been made without ever once giving thought to the consequences.
The gremlin can’t fathom her lifestyle predicament because she’s been fed a steady diet of “tolerance”, “acceptance”, “non-discrimination”, “diversity”, “inclusivity” and every other word synonymous with those ideas and concepts *every* *single* *day* of her entire life.
Anonymous
April 3, 2024 3:36 pm
Gen Z baby boomers got fucked as industrial jobs evaporated to Mexico China, Taiwan , Korea , Vietnam and India . Our retirement and medical benefits up in smoke !
The tax base that supported the nation poof up in smoke !
Politicians then used debt to move forward leaving all of us holding the bag
As a former steel worker literally tossed under the bus 11 years vested to a 30 year pension I fucking get it !
You are not alone !
The circle jerk of Wall Street to K-Street to Capitol Street did this to us .
Look at any parking lot where there are government employees !
HIgh end cars retirement in their 50’s trillions in debt pissed away leaving us holding a bag full of shit !
Remember THEY DONT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOU AT ALL
MORE FOR THEM AND THEIR RICH COCKSUCKER FRIENDS
ITS A BIG CLUB and we aren’t in it
Can’t say for sure thar it stems from age. As recently as last month, asked who the adult in the relationship was. 24 year old nephew is more mature than his mom. From 15 years old, he raised himself and acted as the man of the house without a dad (he died). To mention more, he had a growth on his brain that was diagnosed when he was 17. He had surgery to remove it. His mom lives rent free in her mom’s house, yet goes on annual cruises and vacations.
These people speak as if they are entitled. Maybe not the last one as much.
Read this on ZH. Aren’t there any vid of Gen Z males making the same complaints as these ‘women’ do? I have yet to see one with a male.
How would you ever be able to distinguish?
That was just groady to the max
If she cut back on the thousands in hair dyes, fake lashes, neon nails, piercings and tattoos she might have more money. Plus a better job might hire her if she looked like a human instead of a Japanese manga character.
Also a little bit of vocabulary building instead of F@#$## as her standard adjective, verb.
Here are other things that the Generation Zeros and Millennials blow their money on : $1,400 latest I Phone’s
$9.00 Fancy Coffee Drinks at Starbucks EVERY DAY!!!
Video Games
Eating out everyday at their jobs
Paying $600 for the latest Jeans
Buying $95,000 Pickups!!!
Music Concerts
Sports Tickets
Vacations to the Bahamas when they can’t even pay their rent!!!
Modern urban women are all fancy hat and no cows; lipstick on pigs; they are high maintenance self-centered gold diggers not interest in traditional motherhood and families. If you marry one, she gets to select your financial execution date by some state court.
Immigrant or first generation immigrant is way to go….
old timer had told me back in the days when I was asking him what I should look for a woman..”look, it’s like putting your hand in a bag with snakes, and pulling one out….you might pull out one that snakes bite, one that is harmless, one that can be poisonous , one that can even kill you, at the end of the day …you are pulling out a snake
Chick in the 3rd video has a $2500 Peloton bike in the background.
Who knew that there is such a thing? Bicycles were originally intended for either personal transportation or for transportation of goods from A to B, either with a backpack, bucket or other receptacle, or with a trailer. My Dad still transports lumber, compost or other items that way at the age of 82. He still talks about how happy they were to have their first bike in the family after the war, in the early 1950s. During the war, they only had hand pulled wagons and wheelbarrows.
And now they invented a $2500 bike that doesn’t transport you anywhere. That totally makes sense. /s
An expensive ride to nowhere. Excellent.
The Fail-a-ton bike.
};^D
Lol , “There’s another one born every minute ” , suckers that is . Who the hell said that ? Oh yeah PT Barnum .It was just yesterday I was opining on the ridiculousness of people in general .
+100
Don’t get your hopes up folks. I doubt that GenZ is going to become Christian Right Wing White Supremacist Libertarians. Most likely they will see their solutions to the left of the Democrats. Maybe I missed something but I haven’t seen much from Gen Z to give me confidence. (including my own grandchildren)
Cliff, If they are not excited, they more than likely will stay home. That will make it increasingly difficult for the dems to pull off the steal without it being 100% obvious to all.
Not to worry … the dems have imported more than 25,000,000 illegal alien voters …
Why leave out the 30 million that were already here? They vote, too.
True … and I forgot all of the dead voters …
Love the chick that doesn’t want to work 9-5 but gonna start her own business. Set your own hours – Any 100 hours per week you want (plus occasional overtime) to see if you get paid anything. Wait ’til she tries to hire her first employee and finds out how much that really costs…
I’ve been saying it for years. Labor is a business expense. At some point people are going to say it’s not worth it and stop selling their labor for hourly wages.
Gig economy
That is exactly who Biden’s 87,000 new IRS agents are going after. Biden wants 8% interest on underpayments of quartely estimates of income, up under Biden from 3%. That is not going to earn him any votes.
Rigged gig vig for Mr. Big
Hell. I would wager not more than 5 in 100 voters know what the hell you’re talking about, nonny.
I had to play that game with a boss who didn’t want to pay payroll taxes.
The carrot he dangled was an annual tax preparation filing on his dime.
What a crock.
Besides quarterly estimates, the contractor who gets a 1099 instead of a W2 at years end is on the hook for the entire amount of the FICA/Medicaid tax.
With W2’s and payroll taxes withheld, that’s a 50-50 split payment between the employer and the employee to the U.S. Treasury.
NO way in hell that any one of the 4 bimbos shown above know about this, let alone understand it.
They need to get a few more years of struggle under their belts before bitching about how tough it is to save and get ahead.
There attire says caviar and cocaine but their income says fish sticks and fentanyl.
Wakey wakey.
F-R-U-G-A-L-I-T-Y
And, of course, living within your means.
Its really about the direct ratio between wages and the price of all things, necessities and non-necessities alike. That ratio has been steadily declining since the USD was taken off the gold standard in 1972. At age 30 my dad could buy a house with 3 years take-home pay that would have cost me almost 6 years take home pay at the same age. Now fast-forward another 30 years to today, same house, and for another 30 year-old with a similar professional job, it’s probably about 12 years take-home pay. Sure, housing is the worst-case example but similar math can be done for everything from a loaf of bread to a gallon of gas to a car. There are only so many hours in our lives, so you can’t blame today’s 20-30 year olds who are expected to trade those finite hours of their lives for 1/2 the value their parents got and a 1/4 of the value their grandparents got.
The real problem is that the alternative is a life of government dependence, which costs the productive citizens more in taxes, exacerbating the whole cost-of-living problem. Yet here we are at the cusp of a total, societal breakdown because today’s middle class is barely better off working than the lower, dependent class that is not working.
When there are more people sitting in the wagon than people willing to pull it, the wagon stops.
Who buys a three or four bedroom ranch or bungalow (1400-1600 sq ft)any more? They all have to have a 2500 sq ft three car garage mc mansion. Filled with a half ton 4WD truck, all wheel drive suv, motorcycle, boat, and snowmobile or jet ski, all leased.
Seems expectations have changed over the years too.
In 1966 you could buy a new car with 6 months average I think it would be salary. Today I think it would be about 18 months salary. Just guessing.
And just who will support them? I sure as hell won’t …
Agenda 21/2030 vaxecution, food/supply disruption, etc., is handling that, along with the rape invader locusts.
Locust, great source of protein. WEC
Especially when they’re six feet tall, with two meaty legs, instedda thin, unchewable wings.
John The Baptist ,I think he dipped them in honey … that’s my kinda guy , total freaker .
Right, it’s much more fair to have them pay your Soc Sec and Medicare.
We paid our parents, and they paid their parents, and they paid their parents back to FDR. Who’s fault is it the government made it a compulsory ponzi scheme?
How do you get out of it? Biden’s solution is illegals. That won’t work.
Mommy and daddy. Then the inheritance.
Done. Transfer payments in 2020 were about 60% but now they are about 75% thanks to Illegals. US short Treasury Bond rates were .5% and are now 5%; the Annual deficit was $1T and will soon be $8T; Nat’l Debt will soon be about $40T and the US dollar will become Toast (like French Assignnats, German Meimar Marks). With the Fed playing god with our countries money, if they lower rates now it will cause inflation like a western forest fire, if they raise rates, Powell cuts his dick off, if he does nothing, he watches the sky fall. Never let them implement CBDC FedCoins (Rev 13:16,17). America has to many hogs and to few tits; to many people riding the hay wagon and to few pulling; to many eating and not enough working (2Thes3:10-13); this is not Survivable National Socialism & Communism. Taxing the Rich at 90% for more income would pay the bills for only about a couple months per year; trimming the Budget is necessary; earning one’s living is necessary; I’m a farmer rancher and I look at millions of acres of land sitting idle in environmental set asides drawing government subsidies for Bill Gates, that land should be growing soybeans and speckled peas, or cattle, to sell to china. TPTB are Traitors. We are crazy to allow this.
We are taught to fight amongst ourselves. The poor even if they’re lazy bums, are hardly an enemy. However if you are speaking of politicians, bureaucrats, academics, and Wall Street as the hogs, I’m all in.
That is one angry elf. If we could find 2000 more like her we could take over Disney..
Disney’s already been taken over. That’s why she appears that way.
why she so shiny?
cum
Wow, do you need any more proof how utterly worthless and lazy the Generation Zeros and Millennials are?!?!?!?!
We Boomers worked jobs we hated for 50 years (!!!) so we would be able to retire. And you worthless, selfish, responsibility shirking, blame shifting, lazy Generation Zeros and Millennials can’t even make it one year!!!!!!!!!!!
Dear Jesus, send the Astoroid NOW!!!
Working hard at a job one hates, for not enough to live on is even harder. That’s where they’re at. They also grew up in divorce, no mom home, debased schooling, etc. They did not become useless by themselves. And many are living off social security from whatever’s left.
BTW, I am not one of them, but much older. They will never have what we had, no matter how they work. They’re dumbed down, embittered, infantilized, confused, misinformed, and more; but they didn’t engineer that, and calling them names helps nothing, and makes them hate us more.
The problem is they are blaming those who worked 50+ hours a week for decades. Completely clueless about the Fed, inflation, currency manipulation, government spending and the true causes.
Well,we older folks did allow the shit to get where it is today,should have revolted decades ago at a minimum.
A lot of us are revolting now.
That didn’t sound quite right . . .
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Well, DJT is symbolic of our Revolt because None Of The Above (NOTA) is not going to be on the 2024 POTUS Ballot. And when DJT wins, we hope he goes thru TPTB like crap thru a goose and turns it inside out. MAGA: Marmalize All Government Employees (per se)
But they all got participation awards!
Just die already you useless old self absorbed cunt.
Douchebag
She should be home baking and watching her kids, while hubby is out working to pay for it all, in an undemolished economy. It’s not only the economy. It all needs to be dialed back to before her grandparents were born. The dismantling is complete.
DV, please elaborate. DV is OK, just say what the disagreement is over. This is an adult discussion (generally).
She would have to be an entirely different person from who she is today to do as you say … especially the part about children …
I’d say those braces on the teeth are a waste of money if the end goal is to look prettier.
The third video down would not make it as a truck driver. Some Drivers work 14 hours a day.
The fourth video girl needs to get some roommates to share expenses with. She is delusional if she thinks she can live on her own making $28,000 a year. If getting roommates is not attractive to her, she needs to go back to school and get into a much better paying field of work.
Instead of filming videos of themselves bitching about how they can’t cope with reality, if they’d put forth some effort the 3 normal looking ones could probably make a living by doing OnlyFans.
They already do. If whoring is all that’s left, it’s over, anyway.
Maybe these pansies should have been here about 1980 or so … when the prime rate was about 18-19% … when mortgage rates before buy-downs by developers were about 24% …
These weaklings need to get better spokespersons … it makes them look foolish to have an individual (maybe a woman?) with bizarre eye treatments and hair color and makeup that looks like it was put on with both a trowel and a commercial spray paint rig and 2″ green fingernails whining about how expensive it is … Does she get all of that for free? How often does she dine out? What are her monthly expenses?
No mercy for these twits … they’re having to do the same stuff that we humans have had to do since the dawn of our time on this Earth … they just whine about it a lot more.
Percentages matter, but so do absolute numbers. My parent’s home from the late Sixties was around $26K+. In 2021 it sold for over $1-1/3 million. They’d never be able to afford a third of it now, even with degreed salaries and financial prudence. Also, our mom stayed home ’til our teens in the Seventies and finished college in the mid-Eighties.
Some of these things vary by area. Some costs (private college, healthcare) have gone up faster than other costs. So it’s complicated to assess. In general, though, I think people in their 20’s & 30’s (whatever “Gen” that is) think – because they’ve been told – that in the old days things were easier when they actually weren’t.
I think people in their 60s & 70s think, because they’ve lost touch wirh reality, that things are no more difficult now than they used to be.
It’s always fun to watch parents and grandparents castigate their own children and grandchildren for becoming who and what they were raised to be.
It’s a final desperate act of neglect, abandonment and abuse to protect a self image they never earned before shuffling off this mortal coil.
“Hey, it’s not MY fault my kids turned out this way!”
Sure, sure, it’s probably someone else’s fault.
Say it one more time and let me really feel the morally vacant, narcissistic indignation, thou generations of parental FAIL.
People in their 60’s and 70’s have lived both then and now. Logic dictates that people who have lived during both periods would have more understanding than people who weren’t alive “then”. It’s why most non-sick societies have historically understood elders to have wisdom not yet attainable by the young. When it comes to comparing economic hardship, then & now, it’s mostly simple arithmetic. I remember how much I earned 35 years ago and how much rent was when split with three roommates, for example. I’ll plead guilty to plenty of parental FAIL, if it makes you feel better. Of course many of today’s young who think they’ll be perfect parents will also fail in some ways, but that’s something they’ll only realize when they’re older.
My daughter becoming a queer in college and flunking out for goofing off was not parental failure. She’s still a liberal but she went back, now earns 6 figures, is married and has a son. Maybe if I live long enough…
But that’s not the prior generation fault. They didn’t inflate the costs, send our manufacturing overseas or pass bills for trillions that guarantee reelection votes. The parents did the same thing.. daily grind and responsibility and sacrifice over decades.
Are you retarded?
No, just lying and deflecting.
Had a PCS from ND to Omaha under Jimmy (D) when housing rates were 19%, thanks Peanut brain; Jimmy also eliminated the GI Bill that we Vietnam Veterans had earned, thanks Comrade Jimmy. Jimmy also got rid of the Panama Canal, thanks asshole. I thought Jimmy was bad until Blow Job Bill, Hussein and FJB. Could have been worse: Gore & Harpy.
These dumbasses all rioted for Biden and burned their cities down demanding Marxism. Let them live with the consequences.
Yes, but again, their Fifties and Sixties and Seventies and even Eighties counterparts never would have. What’s changed? They are the fruit of what’s preceded them. Nothing happens in a vacuum.
And they have had indoctrination since infancy… This same mentality is what started the Khmer rouge… blame the hard working and accomplished for your struggles instead of the perpetrators
Born in ’47, I began college in ’70 … marxist indoctrination was alive and in full bloom at the state university I attended in Ohio.
The missing thing from the analysis here is simply where is these youth’s responsibility for their poor choices in life in so many aspects of their lives?
There are young people who are thriving today. Plenty of them. People who don’t have blue hair, 2″ eyelashes and 4″ nails. People who don’t vomit their every thought onto the internet. There are young people who do well despite having had bad parents and young people who struggle despite having had good parents – although all other things being equal, good parenting helps.
They had a Democrat fool on this morning after our local primary saying Trump getting elected would cause job losses and more inflation, exactly what Biden caused, not Trump
She said Biden was working hard to lower inflation, but forgot to mention it was Biden caused inflation. Biden also had proposed a $7.5 trillion dollar budget for 2025 if he is reelected. That should about double the current inflation in no time.
I see 4 individuals from generation iPhone who have been completely and totally brainwashed as to what life was going to be like for them as young adults because imo they were raised not by responsible parents but by the everything is fake and gay social media industrial complex and now all 4 of them are having that fake and gay world and that was promised to them utterly destroyed by the reality of how the world really works and they have limited to no coping mechanisms to deal with the swift groin kick by steel toed boots they are receiving. And there is an entire generation of these people now entering the workforce.
End the FED and return to sound money. It’s not BTC.
We have all been brainwashed since the advent of TV. The narrative of ourselves arose from the context of mass media. This is who and what we perceive we are. Socially media has focused ourselves like a magnifying glass in the sun and we attempt to be that little speck of light.
I had to look up what all these Gen XYZ were so just in case I’m not the only one…..
Gen Z 1997 – 2012 Age 12 – 27
Millennials/ Gen Y 1981 – 1996 Age 28 – 43
Gen X 1965 – 1980 Age 44 – 58
Baby Boomers 1946 1946 – 1964 age 59 – 77
Silent Gen 1928 – 1945 age 78 – 96
Even those are arbitrary designations of groups by those who seek control. The few may only control the many by divide and conquer. My identity does not belong to them and is not assigned by them. The sociology wing of academia is a de department of Tavistock/MK-ULTRA/Langley.
As I understand it, there is another one inserted between ‘boomers’ and gen X called Generation Jones. Apparently its from 59 to 69; it actually makes sense as that group is really too young to be ‘boomers’ but much more connected to them than Xers…
The most notable thing about this bitchfest phenomenon isn’t whether they’re right or wrong thinking that “it’s harder now than in the old days”. It’s about people (mostly young women) whipping out their phone and broadcasting to the universe whatever they’re thinking or feeling at that instant. It’s only going to go viral if you say something really stupid or ridiculous. Social media is causing narcissism to go through the roof. Going through your day thinking that anyone cares what you think is a form of insanity.
The narcissism was there all along … the smart phones and social media merely enable it to reach a much larger audience … total AGB (attention-getting behavior) …
Not only has the standard of living in the US been in a steady decline for decades, it is now set to plunge off a cliff.
And the cliff is made in China.
From May 2010. Dem US Rep Grayson digs at Obama.
“Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the production of others. “Government money,” of which one hears so much nowadays, does not exist; there is no such thing.”
― Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
“All the power [the State] has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another; there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure, leaves society with so much less power.” ― Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, the State
The real problem is that these youngsters still believe in .gov as an answer in the first place (along with the rest of us). It’s time for Americans to see much more than just what Rep. Grayson says above.
The Cliff was Socialism and Welfare funding, the communist just sold US the rope.
Note to Generation Zero : Quit voting Democrat. That’s a good start.
You misspelled, “Quit voting.”
should be spelled “Counter Revolt”
For shits sake maybe if you didn’t look like a looney toone clown off a kids cereal box and clean up your public school indoctrination verbal skills just maybe you could find a job with some upward mobility !
Oh lose the tongue ring shit for brains !
Who wants to kiss a cunt with a ring in her nose like a pig or cow?
We’ve raised 3 Gen Zer’s and our home has always been open to their friends as they were growing up. With two or three exceptions over the years, virtually all of them have been the polar opposite of those examples above. I realize where we live plays a big part of how they’ve turned out- cities and suburbs are toxic place for healthy child rearing experiences, the former being dangerous and chaotic, the latter being the epicenter of atomized isolation, further exacerbated by the hustle and bustle consumer lifestyles attendant to both.
The fatherless gremlin in the first clip can’t even fathom how her freakish appearance and slow-motion self immolation creates an inability to advance beyond the entry level stage of working life.
I have said this before and I stick by it the more time passes, when history looks back on this time period they will shake their heads at the docility and ignorance of what once were classed as adults. More than their frustration, it is their prideful stupidity that stands out to me, all of their decisions having been made without ever once giving thought to the consequences.
The gremlin can’t fathom her lifestyle predicament because she’s been fed a steady diet of “tolerance”, “acceptance”, “non-discrimination”, “diversity”, “inclusivity” and every other word synonymous with those ideas and concepts *every* *single* *day* of her entire life.
Gen Z baby boomers got fucked as industrial jobs evaporated to Mexico China, Taiwan , Korea , Vietnam and India . Our retirement and medical benefits up in smoke !
The tax base that supported the nation poof up in smoke !
Politicians then used debt to move forward leaving all of us holding the bag
As a former steel worker literally tossed under the bus 11 years vested to a 30 year pension I fucking get it !
You are not alone !
The circle jerk of Wall Street to K-Street to Capitol Street did this to us .
Look at any parking lot where there are government employees !
HIgh end cars retirement in their 50’s trillions in debt pissed away leaving us holding a bag full of shit !
Remember THEY DONT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOU AT ALL
MORE FOR THEM AND THEIR RICH COCKSUCKER FRIENDS
ITS A BIG CLUB and we aren’t in it
That’s about the gist of it , only we aren’t supposed to notice or catch on .
That pink haired thing is afflicted with wigger mitosis.
and probably several wigger STDs.
Can’t say for sure thar it stems from age. As recently as last month, asked who the adult in the relationship was. 24 year old nephew is more mature than his mom. From 15 years old, he raised himself and acted as the man of the house without a dad (he died). To mention more, he had a growth on his brain that was diagnosed when he was 17. He had surgery to remove it. His mom lives rent free in her mom’s house, yet goes on annual cruises and vacations.
These people speak as if they are entitled. Maybe not the last one as much.