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SignUp Now!WE HAVE A PROBLEM: This is a well written and thought out article written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve...
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.
I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.
Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!
Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."
Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.
When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.
My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.
People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.
We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."
Believe me T-Guy, I have a 20 year old daughter that’s going into her third year at USC and she gets it. Although she has too much of my month and saying things that her ass may have to back up. That doesn’t stop her, her words fuckem, oh daddy I’m sorry didn’t mean to say that.There are more of them then I ever realize. However they are a minority.Wow, one of them gets it............ Those liberal college professors completely missed the mark, huh?
she is obviously a critical thinker....and I hope any professional college professor regardless of their political views is just teaching them the curriculum needed towards their degree...at least mine did...refresshing to read from a younger person...normally I would call them a snow flake...but I am trying to not be so de-meaning as of late ...stop the hate ......so alll can relateWow, one of them gets it............ Those liberal college professors completely missed the mark, huh?
At 81, I am fortunate to have lived in those times.We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones.
I hear ya ...I had to walk to school ...elementary...and junior high...best friend had a old blazer in high school picked me up every day ..until I rolled it LOL....house was too close to both schools for bus service...didnt have a cell phone until my first real job ..which they provided..that was in 2002....never have actually owned my owned or payed a cell bill..LOL...playing outside and riding our bikes and skateboards all over town was our way of childhood...so it is a totally different way in which I grew up too...thats why its hard for me to understand or be too critical of the youth this day and age ...a very different way of growing up...interesting if you think about it....At 81, I am fortunate to have lived in those times.
I walked to school, {5 girls/3 boys in my grade school class!}, hitchhiked, or rode my bike, to get any place I wanted to go. We had no tv, until a relative gave us a 12" round Zenith.
Were no cell fones. Our fone was a wall mtd crank fone, on a party line.
Cars? My dad had 1. The only one in the family.
My sis and I each had 2 sets of clothing. 1 for school, and 1 for every day play.
Looking back, and comparing the way life is being lived these days, I'd much prefer to go back to 1950.
I do "go back" often, thru reliving the times I had the good fortune to experience.
It's been a fun ride... Not so much now, as then.
and I hope any professional college professor regardless of their political views is just teaching them the curriculum needed towards their degree...
I can't believe this clown is ahead in the polls.
I was raised in the 60's, as many of you were.
Parents said this.......
8:00 AM in the summer........ "Go outside and play, be home before the street lights come on."
"Oh, you fell off your bike? Come inside, I have some Mercurochrome." ("Monkey Blood?".....sound of feet running away.....)
"You guys want to go for a ride in the back of the pick up truck?"
"Put this football helmet on, it will protect you when you crash the go kart."
" GOD DAMMIT (insert your name here)"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Go ahead boy, pee off the side of the boat, you're only raising the level of the lake."
An older brother.... "Have you tried putting TWO C67's in that model rocket? Bet it would go REAL high if you did....."
And finally ......... Dad saying.......
(Face Palm) "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!!!!!! YOU'RE DOING IT ALL WRONG!!!!!!!!!"
And yet, WE SURVIVED !
Feel free to add........
The polls said Hillary would win in a LANDSLIDE, too.........
She and others still believe in them......... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA........
You go, OLD JOE!
That was a sarcastic remark about the polls.
Not barely a word in the msm about the President's younger brother passing yesterday.
At 81, I am fortunate to have lived in those times.
I walked to school, {5 girls/3 boys in my grade school class!}, hitchhiked, or rode my bike, to get any place I wanted to go.
We had no tv, until a relative gave us a 12" round Zenith.
Were no cell fones. Our fone was a wall mtd crank fone, on a party line.
Cars? My dad had 1. The only one in the family.
My sis and I each had 2 sets of clothing. 1 for school, and 1 for every day play.
I've experienced 3 wars. Relatives and I participated in all 3. The USA has always come thru a winner!
Looking back, and comparing the way life is being lived these days, I'd much prefer to go back to 1950.
I find myself "going back" often, thru reliving the times I had the good fortune to experience.
I have only one surviving, long time friend. He's 83. We spend time on the fone, laughing to tears about some of the $hit we used to pull, the girls we chased, and of course, the cars we had.
Thank god for long term memory!
It's been a fun ride... Not so much now, as then.
I blame 90%+ of the crap going on now squarely on biff and muffy's shoulders. Not taking the time to instill righteous morals in their offspring. Being to lazy or greedy or both to take the time for proper upbringing. Know plenty of parents who immediately put new born babies in daycare, now there's a warm loving atmosphere to start out in. Both wanted to work so they could have toys and take BIG vacations. Most acted like obnoxious little bastards demanding everything they saw in the store. Laughed my ass off watching them trying to reason with a 3yo having a fit in the store. Only reasoning a 3yo can understand at that age is a slap on the ass. And number 1 reason, taking GOD out of the schools and everywhere else.
id say 60 % parents ...20 schools...20% internet/social media ....each one is more powerful at different age levels ...I blame 90%+ of the crap going on now squarely on biff and muffy's shoulders. Not taking the time to instill righteous morals in their offspring. Being to lazy or greedy or both to take the time for proper upbringing. Know plenty of parents who immediately put new born babies in daycare, now there's a warm loving atmosphere to start out in. Both wanted to work so they could have toys and take BIG vacations. Most acted like obnoxious little bastards demanding everything they saw in the store. Laughed my ass off watching them trying to reason with a 3yo having a fit in the store. Only reasoning a 3yo can understand at that age is a slap on the ass. And number 1 reason, taking GOD out of the schools and everywhere else.