Barry’s “fundamental transformation” of America
marches on, unabated, creating an American that is, for all intents and
purposes, becoming completely unrecognizable.
The drive to create a dependency based society has met with a great
level of success over the course of the last 6+ years. Gone now are the days where we raised our
young to be self-sufficient, productive members of society. Many of our younger generation, today, seem
to have no qualms about living off mommy and daddy well into their 30s. And many mommies and daddies seem ok with it
as well, although I quite sure many feel that they simply have no choice in
Barry’s America. And according to data
from the Census Bureau it’s now fully one third, or 30.3 percent, of 18 to 34 year-olds
who are living with a parent.
This new data comes to us from a Census release
called “Young Adults: Then and Now,” which “illustrates characteristics of the
young adult population (age 18-34) across the decades using data from the 1980,
1990 and 2000 Censuses and the 2009-2013 American Community Survey. In 1980, according to the Census, 22.9
percent of the total population ages 18 to 34 were living with a parent who was
deemed to be the householder. By 1990,
the percentage living with their parents had increased to 24.2 percent. And in 2000, the percentage dipped a bit to
23.2 percent, and then in 2009-2013 it reached the highest level ever recorded in
the dataset to 30.3 percent. Like so many
other ‘new highs’ that have been reached under this president, we see how it is
that Barry has managed to ‘change’ the country, and not for the better.
Veronique de Rugy, a senior research fellow at the
Mercatus Center, attempted to put the data in context as a way of finding out
why this is occurring. “Millennials are
taking a big hit in this economy,” said de Rugy. “Recessions are always rough
on younger people, but this one has been particularly rough. The recovery has
been so slow, and it’s also been kind of slow on the labor market side of
things.” She said, “For instance, the
recession hit when some millennials were just getting out of college and so
they went straight into the unemployment line. And then when they were lucky
enough to get a job, usually there was a lot of underemployment going on,
meaning not necessarily full-time and part-time jobs but also at lower salary
than they would otherwise.”
She added, “The other thing that’s been really rough
for them is the fact that during the recession and the slow recovery, the
number of older workers that actually quit their jobs to get a better position,
was down quite significantly, and unfortunately, I mean this is a bad thing,
because this is one of the ways that first you measure the health of the labor
market, but also this is one of the ways that younger workers go up the job
ladder.” She went on to say, “And when
you actually have few options because people are worried and won’t quit their
jobs for better opportunities either because they’re risk averse or because
those opportunities do not exist, it means that you are stuck at lower
positions without being given the opportunity to go out. So it’s a problem.”
She said, “The other major problem that we’re gonna
see in the next - you know playing out for the next 40 years is the fact that
the biggest increase in your expected income, future income, comes the first 10
years of your career.” And then she went
on to say, “So if you start slow, it means you’re basically losing out a lot in
the long run. So it’s been rough.” And I
would argue that young people today what put themselves in this position. By choosing to vote for Barry in rather
substantial numbers make their present predicament essentially self-inflicted. And if recent polls are anywhere near accurate
a good many of them would have no problem, whatsoever, in voting for Hitlery
Clinton. Which tells me that they are
bothered very little by their current living conditions.
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