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re: Will the millennials be a lost generation?
Posted on 8/5/15 at 8:31 am to CunningLinguist
Posted on 8/5/15 at 8:31 am to CunningLinguist
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When all of the baby boomers finish dying off....
Seriously! Why can't those old bastards retire already and get out of the way?!
Posted on 8/5/15 at 8:32 am to GetCocky11
I read an article this morning that 22% of millennials are supporting their parents in some way.
Boomers bringing us down one way or another.
Boomers bringing us down one way or another.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 8:32 am to GetCocky11
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Will the millennials be a lost generation?
They already are.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 8:33 am to jvilletiger25
quote:Because they are financially illiterate and didn't save anything for retirement.
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When all of the baby boomers finish dying off....
Seriously! Why can't those old bastards retire already and get out of the way?!
Posted on 8/5/15 at 8:34 am to GreatLakesTiger24
So they're all oilfield trash?
Posted on 8/5/15 at 8:35 am to Dire Wolf
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Rising national debt levels may threaten the ability of millennials to collect on promised Social Security and Medicare benefits. That’s not lost on millennials — only 45 percent expect to receive Social Security benefits during retirement (compared with 68 percent of baby boomers).
I don't expect SS to be around by the time I retire around 2050.
What is worst is that the people that support these killing policies stay in Congress until they die. The average age of Congress is around 60, which makes it one of the oldest Congresses in US history.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 8:35 am to TigerHam85
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Boomers bringing us down one way or another.
They always have and they always will. They broke the Greatest Generation, and now they're destroying Gen-X and the Mils. They are, without a doubt, the shittiest generation of people ever to infect this country.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 8:37 am to CaptainPanic
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no they just had a shitty guide.
Facebook?
Posted on 8/5/15 at 8:37 am to GetCocky11
We may go down as the "fricked Generation". We're the ones where social security will run out on, the world will begin to fall around, and we'll probably barely miss the Singularity or be too old to appreciate it.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 8:43 am to CadesCove
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They always have and they always will. They broke the Greatest Generation, and now they're destroying Gen-X and the Mils. They are, without a doubt, the shittiest generation of people ever to infect this country.
If this is a genuine post, then I almost have to agree. You can make the argument that they have and are still continually breaking this country. They also don't understand why there is so much angst out there against them.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 8:44 am to Dire Wolf
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A typical millennial averaged earnings of $33,883 (in 2013 dollars) between 2009 and 2013. That was down 9.3 percent (after adjustment for inflation) in just a decade and is the lowest since 1980
I laugh so hard at this repeated topic. People are staYing in school longer which leads to a delay when they get a real job but gives them increased potential in that job.
In the 80s the majority of people would be fiNE with a high school education and some with a college degree.
Now, you need an mba or you aren't going anywhere, thus, instead of enteeing the workforce on average in the low 20s, our generation enters it at late 20s early 30s which scews that graphic
Posted on 8/5/15 at 8:45 am to GetCocky11
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If this is a genuine post, then I almost have to agree.
It is absolutely genuine.
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They also don't understand why there is so much angst out there against them.
They are oblivious of everything but themselves. That's their problem.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 8:48 am to CadesCove
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They always have and they always will. They broke the Greatest Generation, and now they're destroying Gen-X and the Mils. They are, without a doubt, the shittiest generation of people ever to infect this country.
Yea, I can't stress this enough. Baby boomers fricking suck. Borrowed trillions to prop up sweet public benefits and welfare for themselves and stuck X-ers and Mils with the bills. And don't even get me started with the rape and pillage union contracts they worked for 40 years.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 8:49 am to GetCocky11
I'm not even sure what generation I belong to? Lol
Posted on 8/5/15 at 8:52 am to CadesCove
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some loyalty
I hate this BS. Employers have absolutely NO loyalty to employees. Why should it be reciprocated?
Posted on 8/5/15 at 8:58 am to GetCocky11
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If this is a genuine post, then I almost have to agree. You can make the argument that they have and are still continually breaking this country. They also don't understand why there is so much angst out there against them.
Yeah, my parents got pretty pissed when I mention that to them. While my parents aren't guilty of this, the Boomers are a simply entitled and materialistic generation. My generation it doesn't take much to keep us happy. A laptop, iPhone, a half-way decent apartment, living in a decent neighborhood, and an occasional nice meal. They on the other hand are about buying shite they can't afford, like ridiculous hot rods, over-the-top country club memberships when they don't even play golf/tennis, ridiculous houses, and shite loads of other extravegancies. It's just ridiculous.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 8:59 am to Dire Wolf
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Some of this may be cultural — younger Americans seem less interested in major possessions like cars and homes. But they are also delaying marriage and having children, which I believe is an indicator of strapped finances.
Just to complete a dismal picture, millennials will also be the victims of the irresponsible fiscal policies pursued in large part by members of my generation. The massive budget deficits of recent years and projected needs to meet future obligations to retirees will result in a steady increase in federal debt, from less than 80 percent of gross domestic product today to an estimated 181 percent of G.D.P. by 2090.
Rising national debt levels may threaten the ability of millennials to collect on promised Social Security and Medicare benefits. That’s not lost on millennials — only 45 percent expect to receive Social Security benefits during retirement (compared with 68 percent of baby boomers).
This has been a problem since I was a kid back in the 70's and 80's. But in the past 8 years, the problem has grown by leaps & bounds. In fact, Obama has increased debt more than all presidents from George Washington through George H.W. Bush Combined. So who did the Millennials support in 2008?
Young Voters Powered Obama's Victory While Shrugging Off Slacker Image
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Up to 54.5 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 voted on Tuesday, just 1 percentage point shy of youth voter turnout's all-time high in 1972, according to preliminary reports. They made up a higher proportion of the electorate—18 percent—than the 65-and-older age category, which accounted for 16 percent.
And they leaned overwhelmingly toward the Democratic ticket. For every one vote cast for John McCain, two young people cast votes for Obama.
I could forgive this mistake once and blame it on youth and ignorance. But...
Election 2012: Study: Youth vote was decisive
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Obama easily won the youth vote nationally, 67 percent to 30 percent, with young voters proving the decisive difference in Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio, according to an analysis by the Center for Research and Information on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University. Obama won at least 61 percent of the youth vote in four of those states, and if Romney had achieved a 50-50 split, he could have flipped those states to his column, the study said.
Y'all wanted him. Well y'all got him. FORWARD!
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:05 am to Darth_Vader
let's blame it on OBAMA!
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:05 am to bawbarn
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I hate this BS. Employers have absolutely NO loyalty to employees. Why should it be reciprocated?
I just read Leaders eat Last by Simon Sinek. He has a couple chapters on this and how it came to be. Once human capital became a lever that could be pulled to create short term value and prop up stock prices, all ideals of loyalty were gone (early/mid 90s). This has trickled down to smaller & smaller companies over the years.
..and its goes back to the selfish attitude of whomever is running these companies, which are all Baby Boomers. People are non longer viewed human beings in a lot of the business world. They are statistics in a spreadsheet that are a variable cost which can be managed to compensate for loss of margin.
But there is hope, the X/Y generations are so disgruntled by this that there will be change over the coming years...just have to get those old bastards out of control.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:07 am to TigerHam85
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let's blame it on OBAMA!
Well let's see, one of the biggest gripes from Millennials is the massive debt that past generations have put on their backs. And the Millennials answer to this is to turn around and elect TWICE a guy who throws more debt on your backs than every POTUS that came before him combined. Smart.
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