By a margin of greater than 2-to-1 in 2008, voters under 30 backed Barack Obama over John McCain. Investors Business Daily offer up the grim statistics:
The unemployment rate among 18-to-24 year olds was 16.3% at the end of last year, compared with 8.8% for the rest of the working-age population. That gap in unemployment rates, the Pew study notes, is “the widest in recorded history.”
Meanwhile, the share of this population that’s managed to find work has fallen to 54.3% — the lowest level since 1948, the first year the government started collecting such data.
And they’re just getting started. Default rates on student loans have climbed. Many twentysomethings have taken unpaid work. Others have returned home to live with their parents.
(H/t Instapundit.)
That’s what you get when you vote with your heart and not your head.
So expect Student Loan refinancing/forgiveness coming down the pipe this year to buy ’em off.
and all of your votes to the Republican party dont’ change the fact that every single one of you has a father that wishes you weren’t his son.
http://littlekiwilovesbauhaus.blogspot.com/2011/07/goproud-my-ass.html
dont’ ever forget it.
Not to mention the dreadful state of blacks in this country – unemployment rates in the 50 percent neighborhood in some places.
Obama had tremendous potential to speak frankly to blacks in this country – some tough love if you will – about getting back on course. Instead, he’s as divisive as Al Sharpton.
If only Obama would have actually done something constructive to bring blacks into the mainstream, he would have been remembered as a great president – all the other stuff not withstanding.
He’s frittered away the greatest opportunity in a lifetime. That’s the biggest disappointment of all.
Kiwi – find something else to say or go away.
If he had something else to say, he might, SCR. But he does not. Other than his wishing we would all kill ourselves, of course.
As much as I enjoy eviscerating trolls like li’l kwee-kwee, it might be time to
ban him/her/it. It clearly has nothing to contribute to the conversation. Or the gene pool, I daresay.
I know why 18-24 year olds vote the way they do.
When I so much as mention a Republican, they recoil in horror and automatically start spitting out talking points about how racist/homophobic/redneck/stupid that person or the whole party is.
If I discuss conservative ideas with them without mentioning Republicans, I can get them to at least discuss the issue. Often times I get partial or full agreement.
This is why I’m convinced I see a daily barrage of attacks on Republicans from my leftist friends. They post a link with some snarky comment about the person and it as assumed that their Facebook friends are “smart” enough to understand how “ridiculous” the person and position is. The actual issue is never addressed.
It’s an effective tactic that makes people vote against their interest because Republican is automatically a shut down even before the issue can be explored.
I’m from the 18-24 age group, and just from interactions with my peers, it is evident that they don’t think very critically (in general). While this probably isn’t as pervasive as in younger age groups, people my age are still incredibly concerned with how their friends perceive them and there is often “peer pressure” to just do whatever makes you fit in. But, I’m sure most people remember being my age so this probably isn’t anything new.
Oddly, being a non-conformist, or “off beat,” is quite “hip” now, it seems. And those kinds of people tend to be quite left-wing. And, of course, conservatives are perceived as old-fashioned, prejudiced, and generally uncool. So it isn’t surprising that young people would be overwhelmingly liberal. I’m sure it is also easier to be liberal because, since all the “smart people” are liberal (not to mention most musicians and other celebrities, like Lady Gag), thinking is not required to reach the most “enlightened” positions.
In addition, people in high school and college/university tend to be stupider than older people. It is where most experimentation with drugs, and other reckless behaviours, occurs. More evidence of a lack of critical thinking ability and general “sheep” mentality.
Occupy Wall Street saw several Wall Street people go to the occupiers and try to start a dialog with them. Some occupiers were lured away from the “twinkle fingers” charade and given every opportunity to state their case with passion and conviction and treated with patience and respect. Some Wall Street types wandered into the belly of the occupation beast.
We still have no manifesto. That is because OWS has no firm ground. They are agitators and dysfunctional people who are in it for the glory of throwing tantrums and creating chaos.
The Obamarrhoids need chaos and instability to further their agenda. Misfit clowns defecting on cop cars and raping starry eyed potheads keep the clucking masses disturbed and the masters of useful idiocy cheerleading, but the distraction of it all leaves the underclass mired in the downward spiraling of hopelessness and devastating change.
This is the tinder box of revolution. Bread riots and martyrdom for the “cause” are always the same for the purposes of the dictatorship in the wings.
“Oddly, being a non-conformist, or “off beat,” is quite “hip” now, it seems. And those kinds of people tend to be quite left-wing. And, of course, conservatives are perceived as old-fashioned, prejudiced, and generally uncool.”
Not odd at all. It was exactly the same when I was your age 25 years ago. Anyone in college who supported Reagan was seen as old-fashioned and bigoted. All the cool people were self-described liberals or progressives who voted for Walter Mondale.
When a Democrat is president, about a year before the election according to the news (TV and newspaper) the economy improves and there is a drop in unemplyment. It is a direct oppersite if a Republican is president. It has been that way for at least 50 years. CHECK IT OUT!!
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No one that I know who has been looking for a job has found one.
Of my strays, one has found a job at a convience store, the other no luck. She’s been out of work for two years now.
My favorite comfort food restaurant is always full of patrons and the predominately white, female wait staff hustles. I asked the Greek owner about his kitchen staff. He said he is trapped with Mexicans most of whom can’t handle English very well. He has no reason to replace them, but since Spanish is the language of the kitchen, he more or less hires people who can fit in.
This same story repeats itself with a friend who is a major commercial developer. The Mexicans will take the work gladly, live in a trailer park and send a lot of their paycheck back to Mexico.
Our “underclass” has been superseded in many cases by a more aggressive underclass that would rather work than settle into welfare.