re: Steve Deace: Coming millennial bubble could spell trouble

I blame the parents just as much for codling them and letting them stay at home. Get the frick out the house and find a job, maybe 2! Put that general arts educations to use!

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The world needs ditch diggers too. That's the biggest problem. All the M's think they're above manual labor. Who is going to repave the roads? The Millennial legal illegal aliens?

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Sure those jobs are needed, but manufacturing and other manual labor jobs are on the decline and are more likely to be replaced by technology than other job types.

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Get the frick out the house and find a job, maybe 2!

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I had a buddy who decided to leave school. Packed up all his shite in his truck and headed home. When he pulled in, his dad was outside and asked him what he was doing. He said that he was coming back home and his dad asked him if he had worked out a place to stay yet. Turned him away at the door.

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There isn't anything wrong with manual labor..

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Not at all. As more and more people refuse to do those jobs, the demand for the services will rise. Plumbers and electricians are going to make so much money in the coming years.

My warehouse guy was out today and I busted my arse. Feels good to workout for work sometimes.

I ave know Steve a while - he was a small market sport radio guy at the beginning of his career. Always liked to talk politics and now has grown into a pretty good brand.

Dude is smart, well researched, and always prepared with facts to back his claims.

Even though he is a Michigan schlep and a closet U of I fan I tend to like him...

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Dude is smart, well researched, and always prepared with facts to back his claims.

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Well he surely did come off that way in this piece.

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Every older generation in the past has said the younger generation was ill equipped. This is nothing new.

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I don't really recall it being said much about Generation X.

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Really I just can't respect millennials until they come up with a better name for their generation. Even generation y was better than millennial.

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Well, apparently I am one, but I don't remember the meeting where we came up with the team name.

A couple of points, since everyone else is going of anecdotal evidence, all of my friends are married or engaged, most have kids. We all have jobs. I live at home and I pay my share of the bills. I don't see how that's any different than having a roommate. I can't actually think of anyone that I know personally or even casually who is a waiter with a college degree, living at home and mooching off their parents.

Lumping 34 year olds in with 20 year olds and everyone in between is intellectually dishonest. I'd like to see a study about males 25-34 who aren't married. Somehow I feel that 70% figure would drop drastically.

These threads make me so glad I'm a Gen X'r

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I'm sorry, but there's a big difference between a 20 year old and a 34 year old. The fact that they cast this wide of a net is fricking ridiculous, as if most 20 year olds are expected to be married at that point.

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This. People blame it on our generation, but they don't look at other factors.

WW2 and the Great Depression put the Greatest Generation and the Silent Generations through perpetual hell. They built America because they had suffered, and wanted a better life and future for their kids. They handed the wealth of their labor to the Boomers. The Boomers and their kids have fricked it all up.

Millenials are stuck in a catch 22, many of us want to get out on our own, get married with kids, and have a good career. But we can't. The economy is absolute shite, the Boomers pissed all of their money away and mismanaged their retirement thinking Social Security would be enough, now with medical advances people are living an average of almost 80 years, and many of them are working well into their 70s instead of retiring at 60 due to being broke. This is taking up all of the good jobs, and creating a traffic jam for the younger people by not allowing us to move up the totem pole. Millenials can't find work, and keep going to college to get degrees thinking it will give them an advantage, and all that's happening is they are getting out of college in deep student loan debt and not finding anything that pays worth a shite, so their money goes entirely to paying off loans and other necessities, and they end up living at home with their parents because they can't afford the high cost of living we have today.

What's happening is the goalposts are moving, used to be most people died before they were 70, but they got married younger and worked/succeeded at a younger age. Today 25 is the new 20. 35 is the new 25-28

I'm 24 years old, I went to college and majored in Agricultural business and Economics...definitely not a worthless degree. I'm stuck at home with my parents working on the farm making 21k a year with 24k in student loan debt, a truck payment with insurance, etc. I've built my credit rating up over 750 by working since I was 10 yrs old part time and always paying for my own stuff. I'm currently working on receiving an investment to get my own farm so I can move out and start my own life...I've been approved on the investment and representatives of the investment group are coming this week to verify that the company exists.

Not all of us millenials are worthless..many of us are trying. The deck is way more stacked against us today than it was for Americans 50 years ago. I have confidence my generation will succeed.