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re: Voters 18-30
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:27 am to the808bass
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:27 am to the808bass
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They can be tired of it all they want. Things are not nearly as bad as they perceive it to be.
Exactly...
Can someone please help me understand when it was better or wasn't hard? In 1994, I was a 22 year old veteran with great work ethic, fresh out of trade school in an industrial field. I passed out 100 resumes in the Baton Rouge area. 50 in work clothes and 50 in a suit. I didn't get a single call back or job offer, not one. I had to move 800 miles to get a job making $10.25 an hour.
In 1997, I came back to Louisiana and purchased my first house. Interest rates were 7-8% on a 30 year mortgage.
Can someone help me understand who might have had it easy "back then", because it sure as hell wasn't me.
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:28 am to the808bass
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Policy suggestions?
This is what I am waiting for. I expect the Dems to roll out price controls and free grift for short term results but these things usually do more harm than good.
What I do expect is a mass media blitz to tell everyone how good things are now even though nothing has changed…
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:28 am to grizzlylongcut
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That’s the only thing that’s caused the affordability problem for young men? Nothing else?
Inflation is largely driven by our monetary policy. It’s not the only thing. But it’s by far the main thing.
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:29 am to wackatimesthree
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By doing what?
As long as y'all persist in affirming young people's feels with regard to this almost completely manufactured "affordability crisis," you set up failure.
You can't correct for something that mostly doesn't exist.
Ending H1B
Allowing Housing Market to fall
Reduction in Tarriffs that were clearly passed through to the customer
Zero'ing out Student Loan APR and forgiving people who already paid the sum of what they took out.
IDK MAN theres quite a fricking good bit.
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:29 am to the808bass
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And the average annual raise from the data I saw is 3.6%.
So, less than SS.
My facility in a low CoL state just gave 3% raises. They gave 3% or less for the last 4 years. You make less money now than when you started if you worked there, and this is not an isolated case.
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:30 am to Antonio Moss
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And the number one issue they voted on was lack of economic opportunity.
They will get their free stuff now and everyone else will have to pay for it
This post was edited on 11/4/26 at 7:31 am
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:31 am to eitek1
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Can someone please help me understand when it was better or wasn't hard? In 1994, I was a 22 year old veteran with great work ethic, fresh out of trade school in an industrial field. I passed out 100 resumes in the Baton Rouge area. 50 in work clothes and 50 in a suit. I didn't get a single call back or job offer, not one. I had to move 800 miles to get a job making $10.25 an hour.
In 1997, I came back to Louisiana and purchased my first house. Interest rates were 7-8% on a 30 year mortgage.
Can someone help me understand who might have had it easy "back then", because it sure as hell wasn't me.
No, they can't, and they're most likely to ignore your post altogether, because if they ignore it they won't have to deal with the reality of it.
There's nothing special about the challenges that a 25 or 35 year old in 2026 is facing that wasn't faced by people the same age in 1976 or 1986 or 1996.
In fact, when you look at the numbers intelligently what they show is that the REAL "affordability crisis" happened between about 1977 and 1987.
Guess who was coming of age then? Yeah. Mostly Boomers.
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:32 am to the808bass
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They all want to write video game code all day long and sip lattes, or they want to be Instagram star/millionaires, or they believe that they can make $300,000 a year with their degree in gender studies
Let’s be honest, that age group, or at least a vary large portion of it, doesn’t have a real realistic expectation of what economic opportunity is
They don’t want to go buy some tools and get a job working at a factory or working somewhere that requires you to show up on time and get dirty to make 75K a year
I disagree. Maybe some but there are also a lot of good, hard working young people who can look at the landscape and realize they are never going to get ahead. The price of houses, vehicles, groceries, insurance, and everything else..and then trying to perhaps get married and raise a family..they’ll never have anything unless it’s left to them. And the sad part is neither Republicans or Democrats have any answers.
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:33 am to wackatimesthree
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What "affordability problem?" Tell me what is not affordable.
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:33 am to wackatimesthree
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Can someone please help me understand when it was better or wasn't hard? In 1994
The price of major assets were half what they are now when accounting for buying power
That, alone, is the bigger issue
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:33 am to the808bass
Lmaooo you have 100k post, definitely tells me when you were growing up the economy was handed to you.
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:34 am to 50_Tiger
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Allowing Housing Market to fall
What the frick does this mean?
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:34 am to Antonio Moss
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I’ve been consistently saying that the GOP strategy of just ignoring the poor economic reality of adults under 35 was going to hurt them and it did, substantially, last night.
So much this. I harp about this on here, and all I ever get in response is “entitled millennials! Pull yourself up by your bootstraps! Doesn’t look bad out there to me! My 401k is doing great!”
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:36 am to Antonio Moss
The thing is, congress will never pass anything meaningful anytime soon. no way to get 60 for Filibuster breaking in senate. and using "budget neutral" Reconciliation can fix what needs to be fixed.
the inflation gains from COVID era and the mass printing of money will not be reversed.
interest rates were suppressed for so long they effected the market. it allowed for inflated home prices and now with current rates and homes still inflated, its too expensive to enter the market for you people. factor in high cost of college, and the current generation is delayed 10 years or more for home buying
but policies of mass immigration and more government programs will only exacerbate those issues.
and its not just young people. im in my 50s and can see the issues around me. my health Ins at work is going up 15% for the portion i will pay (~$30/wk), home and car insurance have steadily gone up. and each tax assessment on my home increases the home value and thus my property taxes are going up.
the inflation gains from COVID era and the mass printing of money will not be reversed.
interest rates were suppressed for so long they effected the market. it allowed for inflated home prices and now with current rates and homes still inflated, its too expensive to enter the market for you people. factor in high cost of college, and the current generation is delayed 10 years or more for home buying
but policies of mass immigration and more government programs will only exacerbate those issues.
and its not just young people. im in my 50s and can see the issues around me. my health Ins at work is going up 15% for the portion i will pay (~$30/wk), home and car insurance have steadily gone up. and each tax assessment on my home increases the home value and thus my property taxes are going up.
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:37 am to slackster
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That group is tired of being told how good the economy is when their own reality is the opposite.
The economy is fricked so it's hard to blame them
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:37 am to the808bass
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Inflation is largely driven by our monetary policy. It’s not the only thing. But it’s by far the main thing.
Trump is one of the main reasons it got out of control in the first place. Say what you want but Trump and the right caused their own demise last night. They addressed 0 issues that your average everyday Americans are concerned about and then made things worse.
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:37 am to eitek1
the average home price was $111,000 in 1994.
Prices being adjusted based on today’s prices, a home would have be $200,000 in 1994.
This isn’t hard to figure out
Prices being adjusted based on today’s prices, a home would have be $200,000 in 1994.
This isn’t hard to figure out
This post was edited on 11/4/26 at 7:38 am
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:38 am to Antonio Moss
Idealistic youth opens the Border and subsidizes the Third World poor. Jihadist Heathens too. End ICE/Police. And whine when the money runs out and inflation rages. Just like in Europe, they’ll have to raid the savings of the affluent citizens, “managed decline “ as it were.
Transnational Progressivism on the March via Democratic Socialism.
It will be interesting to see how far and hard the Revolutionary Left pushes and how the lame duck Trump reacts, if they hit the streets like in France.
Like Rush said “always follow the money “. DEI folk want their fair share. Merit nws.
Transnational Progressivism on the March via Democratic Socialism.
It will be interesting to see how far and hard the Revolutionary Left pushes and how the lame duck Trump reacts, if they hit the streets like in France.
Like Rush said “always follow the money “. DEI folk want their fair share. Merit nws.
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:38 am to slackster
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That group is tired of being told how good the economy is when their own reality is the opposite.
Their "reality" includes a lot of discretionary spending that previous generations didn't do. They don't want to wait to save money to do or buy something they really want, so they just say "YOLO" and buy it on credit.
Posted on 11/4/26 at 7:40 am to theunknownknight
quote:“This country”? Who or what is that exactly.
This country robbed their futures to enrich other countries and buy voters.
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