re: Is it really this tough out there for young people?

Boo Hoo Hoo. Poor pitiful wittle young snowflakes.

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Find a brain cell, I beg you.

It’s so incredibly ironic that you’re talking about getting back in church and following Christ when you’re deathly afraid of being “taken over” by people Christ would welcome with open arms

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God is a God of wisdom and order. You're nuts if you think he'd allow open borders or for a full-on invasion without any sort of vetting. Does that sort of chaos seem like something Christ would do? I can agree that he'd be much more willing to take in outsiders, but I do not think he'd do it in the same manner as the Biden administration. Nor do I think he'd be agreeable to the reasons for why the Biden administration allowed it, which was nothing more than a blatant grab of power as they wanted to inflate the population and their representation in the house. Do you think Christ would act in this manner?

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And defending Charlie Kirk, a man who said he would force his daughter to give birth if she got pregnant from rape, is laughable at best. If you agree with that, or if you try to defend it with religion, or don’t vehemently disagree, YOU are either fricked up or your God is.

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First, you don’t “force” someone to give birth. It just happens because of how God created women’s bodies for when it’s done growing the child. You can, however, make it more difficult for someone to murder their child.

Second, if the argument is that it is murder to intentionally kill a child in the womb, then that would apply to children conceived through sexual assault. Those who are against abortion even in the cases of SA are being logically consistent with their position about the life of the baby, over and against people like you, who are merely making an emotional argument based on personal preferences.

Lastly, if you reject God, you reject objective moral reasoning. You have no basis for condemning anything—including “forcing” someone to have a baby—as immoral. The best you can do is to say that you personally don’t like something, but you can’t make an authoritative claim that something is immoral. You lack a standard to make such a judgment.

The bottom line is that Bible is right that the fool says in his heart that there is no God. Your rejection of your creator has made you absolutely foolish and irrational. You need to embrace Jesus Christ by faith and turn away from your sins before it is too late for you.

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The boomers and Gen X went on a decades long binge of spending and materialism and have left the younger generations to clean up the mess. It’s not a burden we take lightly.

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Boomers and Gen X invented, built and created virtually everything you use on a daily basis.

Millennials and Gen Z blaming the previous generations for their failures is so tired and played out, and not supported by any facts.

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There are 54 million kids in k-12 in the US. Who "raising" those kids?

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The "village".

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The "village".

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I was in private school k-12. I never felt like a village was raising me. I've never looked at any teacher in any way, shape or form as my parent or as raising me. I'm pretty most people feel the same.

You think you get pulled into the weird political talking points a bit too much? I've heard the leftist "it takes a village" stuff before.

Good parents raise their kids no matter the situation, no matter where the kids go to school.

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Concrete finishers for the larger commercial place and finish companies in Atlanta are paid, on average, $35 and hour. The foreman is at $50 The jobsite superintendent at $65.

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Dayuuum.

I'm glad I'm not having to pay that here, just east of Atlanta in SC.

Drove up here to the farmhouse early this morning. Met the concrete guys who are pouring a slab for a guest house barndominium I'm having built on the far west shore of the big pond on the back forty.

It's all mexicans ... but they're working their asses off.

Sent my Son that X post last night. He called me this morning to let me know that girls definitely want to record everything these days ... to live their whole lives through Instagram, TikTok and FB. And he said people need to stay away from dating apps. Said they are poison and he's never heard of any of his friends landing a good woman on a dating app.

He's 27.

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The guys I see coming out of high school getting trade school diplomas find work immediately : welding

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A really high paying welding job is offshore platform underwater repair. You don't even do much swimming. Just go down, fix the hole in the pipe with your torch and then go up. You do need to avoid sharks. And the DEI program is never gonna find a woman who wants that job.

I have over a dozen nieces and nephews that range in the age of 24-31 and of those only 2 are married and of those 2 only one has a child.

I don't know if it's tough or we are reaping what we sow coming from the only have 2 kids generation. Our great grandparents and grand parents grew up in just as tough or more tougher times and they married and had a bunch of kids. It's not tough out there, to me it isn't. Its the eventual product of easy times make soft people. These soft people are a me first generation and these are the results you get.

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The boomers and Gen X went on a decades long binge of spending and materialism and have left the younger generations to clean up the mess.

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As a member of Gen X, I say frick you. get two jobs if thats what it takes to get ahead