ME_llennial Whine "Why I is so pour"?

[SVPete]

I think every generation probably has its share of deadbeats like the DUmmies.

If Twitter, Facebook, and message boards had been around in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, swarms of losers would have been online bitching about "income inequality" and other horrible injustices they were suffering through.

True, to some degree, and all the way back to Adam, pretty much. But in North America and EuroLand 1/2-3/4 of a century of social programs have made welfare moochery a viable lifestyle, and acculturated the current generation to accept that moochery as a valid lifestyle choice they can choose or can fund through their taxes. Laziness has always been with us; government has subsidized it and laziness has proliferated and acquired pride-in-being.

[landofconfusion80]

They claim that the war on drugs has failed and legalizition is the way to go.  The war on poverty could be argued a failure as well and even more resources have been thrown at that and for a longer period of time. Why aren't the primitives ready to give up funding for that?

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[jukin]

They claim that the war on drugs has failed and legalizition is the way to go.  The war on poverty could be argued a failure as well and even more resources have been thrown at that and for a longer period of time. Why aren't the primitives ready to give up funding for that?

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If there had been no war on poverty, there would be no national debt. Most likely we would be colonizing Mars and the overall human condition would be well above what it is now. Cost of the war on poverty is close to $20 trillion, it has failed. We have lost.

[thundley4]

If there had been no war on poverty, there would be no national debt. Most likely we would be colonizing Mars and the overall human condition would be well above what it is now. Cost of the war on poverty is close to $20 trillion, it has failed. We have lost.

The war on poverty has been the largest driver of most taxes across the board.

[Karin]

He's "published."

DFab420 (2,433 posts)
216. It's called Filbert: Floating on Air, good for kids. Or if you like coloring books haha.

http://www.amazon.com/Filbert-Floating-Air-Flying-Whale/dp/1517302994/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1461793774&sr=8-1&keywords=Filbert+Floating+on+Air

you can get a full color ebook or a paperback coloring book. Self-publishing is expensive...

It's a children's book.  From the Amazon write up, you get all kinds of personal info, including a very bizarre and unfunny author biography.   

Check this out:

Response to DFab420 (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 02:45 PM

The Midway Rebel (2,179 posts)
54. I'm in the same boat and I'm 54.

Plus over 100k in student loan debt. Feel the burn.

Why would you let yourself get in that situation?  And Bernie isn't going to be able to do anything about it, except make things much, much worse.

[I_B_Perky]

The Midway Rebel (2,179 posts)
54. I'm in the same boat and I'm 54.

Plus over 100k in student loan debt. Feel the burn.

Look up "complete loser" in the dictionary and chances are you will find a picture of yourself, dummie.

[GOBUCKS]

Self-publishing is expensive...

Yeah, just ask DUmmy Raven Jane Pitt.

She paid to publish two or three "best sellers" for her drunken, unemployable son, DUmmy Bill Pitt.

[Ptarmigan]

DFab420 (2,342 posts)

I will never own a home. I will probably never save enough in a 401k.

I'm about to turn thirty. My mom and dad when they were my age already had 2 kids and while we weren't rich we had a home in outskirts of Boston and we were happy.

My dad was able to go to school at nights to get his MBA, he worked really hard scraping together what he could so that my mom could stay home with the kids.

We worked and saved and he got better and better jobs that paid better, eventually we bought a home in the burbs. It was huge compared to the tiny apartment we all shared. I had my own room, my mom got and dad BOTH got cars. They were 35 maybe 37 at this time. They saved, we were lucky that both my sister and I could go to undergrad colleges debt free.

I will never know this in my lifetime. I've come to realize that we are now looking at an economy in which I will continue to make just enough to pay my rent, pay off my debt and buy food. I realize now that when people refuse to fight for a minimum wage increase for their fellow American that we have finally dived off the deep end, we have finally insulated the right amount of middle class voters from the horrors of the world that they only wonder why someone flipping burgers would have the audacity to ask for 15 dollars an hour.

I realize that I may never have kids. Not because I don't want them, I do. But I can't afford to take care of myself let alone another person. If I do have kids I doubt very much I will see half the opportunity for work that my father will. I've been temping for a year, haven't had a real job in almost two since the non-profit I was at ran out of federal funding (thanks Republicans).

I realize that my generation has been deferred. Too many boomers wanting too much for too long. I'm sorry if that upsets or incenses you but it's the truth. People climbed the corporate ladder, found themselves in positions of power then consolidated that money and power till only a small group of interconnected people could grab hold. Companies took massive federal loans then never hired anyone, using that money to pad bottom lines and fund bonus pays for executives.

When you tell me that my vote for Bernie Sanders is a waste, when you laugh and chastise me and my generation for wanting free stuff, or for being idealistic. Just remember really what you are doing is insulting us for trying to make this country what it was supposed to be, the land of opportunity. Just because you are already at the table eating doesn't mean they are not hungry people waiting for a chance to
sit a the table.

How about stop complaining for a start?

I know that is too much to ask for.