Young people aren't paying for these things with their own money and that's part of the resentment. You can live a pretty comfortable life as long as your parents are making good money. If you actually want to be independent, it's very, very difficult when you're starting out. Like sharing a one bedroom apartment with 3 roommates while holding down multiple jobs that pay the equivalent of a McDonald's cheeseburger an hour difficult.
Our economy makes frivolous spending easier while pricing people out of basic necessities (food, gas, healthcare, housing.)
Don't forget "free" (only to them, not to taxpayers!) healthcare, daycare, schooling (and because they don't speak English it's really expensive daycare!), etc.
I've started seeing ObamaDontCare commercials again with people bragging about mooching off the taxpayers: "I got my whole family covered for $25/mo!" "I'm covered for $7/mo and have $0 co-pay for my medications!"
Young people aren't paying for these things with their own money and that's part of the resentment. You can live a pretty comfortable life as long as your parents are making good money. If you actually want to be independent, it's very, very difficult when you're starting out. Like sharing a one bedroom apartment with 3 roommates while holding down multiple jobs that pay the equivalent of a McDonald's cheeseburger an hour difficult.
Our economy makes frivolous spending easier while pricing people out of basic necessities (food, gas, healthcare, housing.)
Even the illegal immigrants are spoiled with FREE housing and benefits cards.
SHEESH does no one know how to make split pea soup anymore?
Don't forget "free" (only to them, not to taxpayers!) healthcare, daycare, schooling (and because they don't speak English it's really expensive daycare!), etc.
I've started seeing ObamaDontCare commercials again with people bragging about mooching off the taxpayers: "I got my whole family covered for $25/mo!" "I'm covered for $7/mo and have $0 co-pay for my medications!"
You have to have skin in the game, to evaluate the trade-offs of medical treatments.
Yup… And not just the Benefits, but the Associated “RESPONSIBILITIES”… Which appears to be a Scary Word for these Freeloaders …
responsibility for one's own self