Poll: Economy adversely affects youth

eagle1776 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:46:56 GMT

As bad as it may seem kids nowdays have it too easy. This may just teach them how to do with less. Growing up I ate a lot of balogna and Spam, hotdogs and ground beef cooked in every imaginable way. Who could forget the tuna casserole? We walked or biked where we needed to go and had all of 3 channels on TV that ran wholesome shows not the crap we see today that is sex for the sake of sex or violent for the sake of violence. Thank God for "cable"/satellite TV.

We sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. Our small town had very few jobs available to young people. Those who couldn't afford to move away lived with their parents and saved what we could or went into the military,or got married.

Yes, this will give today's young people a taste of what their parents went through at their age and how much we learned about money and how to save and handle it properly.

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C Tention, CA — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:01:55 GMT

All at once now: "It's Bush's fault!"

Barack is working on a bailout for the utes of America.

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SAM, USA — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:12:42 GMT

I'll tell you what the youth are doing - going back home to live with Mom and Dad. Kind of like "The Failure to Launch". I'm lucky my 24 year old son with econ major actually found a decent job (lousy pay but decent benefits that are better than my non-existent benefits from small business). But all of his friends out of college are back home to Mom and Dad. I wouldn't mind actually - not only do I love my son but I like him too. Good company!

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The Truth — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:47:47 GMT

When the loan officer from Quick Loan Funding said, "I can get you much more money than that."

How did you reply ?

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The Truth — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:21 GMT

Why would you need a job, if CountryWide just gave you 101,500 ?

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No really, it works. — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:19:16 GMT

Get use to it youngin's. 28 years of republican led budget busting trickle down economics have left you with a big fat bill to be paid.

You can always use the republican formula of tax cuts and starting wars that don't have to be paid for right away. It works, really.

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no joe, no bo, nj — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:38:09 GMT

I have nothing but sympathy for these young people. To tell you the truth, years ago, I faced the same, or similar, conditions that they are facing today.

In six or nine months time, they are going to be looking at the leader that they campaigned and/or voted for, and are going to be angry-as angry as I was when I realized what Jimmy Carter had done to the economy and national security of this nation.

We are in a similar situation, and I can guarantee that these young people are going to know who to blame.

First, themselves for having been mislead by high sounding ideals with no basis in reality, and then the fearless leader who promised much and delivered little.

Obama is not going to have a democratic majority for long, and he will not be elected to a second term. Count on it.

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NM Ray — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:09:28 GMT

The people who are completely left out from any economic relief are those who purchased the over-priced homes, paid the real estate agents and closing costs, incurred the high rate interest rates, and then in the interest of protecting their "credit rating", continued to make the mortgage payments.

The real estate agents who sold the high priced homes reaped their fees. The banks collected their closing costs and fees. The mortgage brokers packaged the good loans with a ton of bad ones and sold them, and re-sold them, each time making more and more money off of each transaction. All of this time, the good citizens of this nation continued to make their monthly mortgage payments.

Now, the government has figured out a way to bail out all of the crooked bankers, lenders, mortgage brokers, realtors and everybody else who has been playing with their funny money by giving them more funny money to play with.

INstead of feeding this economy from the bottom up we are still inputting at the top with the hopes of the rich letting a little dribble down on the honest working class.

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KH, LA — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:24:22 GMT

When I was a young adult, women's opportunities were limited. Doors were closed and it took lawsuits to open them. So we got married and then divorced. My parent's generation faced the depression. Each new generation has challenges and while this one is difficult, it's worse on the older ones who don't have time to recover financially. I made stupid financial decisions when young but picked up the pace with maturity and I expect that same intelligence from this generation - but do the really need easier credit? Isn't that what got us into this mess?

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C A, Tuscaloosa — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:10:53 GMT

Morning to you to Anna Molly.

I was reading of Qviosry's initiatives to counteract those out of school, jobless and broke youth. I had to comment so here goes .... If we have others like Qvisory making decisions about our youth (or just making suggestions to our youth) we are in deep trouble. I especialy thought the pre-paid credit card idea was a hoot. Hey jobless broke youth! Save your money so you can purchase a pre-paid credit card to pay for your 80,000 dollar college education.

The fact is that if this economy does not turn around, and soon, for everyone including these jobless broke youth who can't afford to stay in school, what will follow is increased drug use, selling drugs, gang membership, theft, youth suicides and a disrespect for authority like we have never seen before. So keep your eyes and ears tuned in to the news Anna. And prepare if necessary to keep your feet up high and dry on that bridge above the troubled waters. This society is in for some major changes, and they will not all be pretty.

Now I'll just wait and bide my time, for some idiot blogger to respond by blaming Obama, Bush, Clinton, Rush Limbaugh, the dems, the republicans, the Russians, the Muslims, Wall Street, the terrorists, Iran, North Korea, Pelosi, France, Spain, the IRA, the Queen of England, Michele Obama, Jay Leno, Amercian Idol, whomever. You know, the blame game. It's what they are good at while their society and their country falls apart at their feet.

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C A, Tuscaloosa — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:55:37 GMT

Kyle Tures, KC (Sent Wednesday, April 08, 2009 9:53 AM)

Actually Kyle, cutting taxes on business and lowering local, state and federal government spending has not worked well in the past. At least not when the economy was in a deep recession. I'm not saying that printing and distributing millions of dollars into this economic crisis is the answer either. But your suggestion to reinstall trickle down economics to solve the current econimic crisis will not work. Such a plan is better suited to an an economy that is strong, growing and when entrepeneurship has the ability to increase by way of confident, reliable and solid financial backing. None of these conditions are present today, and the same theory that you suggest did play a part in the deterioration of this country's infrastructure as well as that of business'es ability to meet the societal demands of the 21st century. So in effect your suggestions would make the current crisis even worse. Adding fuel to the fire you might say. And rather than perhaps reaching a 10% unemployment rate in 2009-2010 we would see an unemployment rate of 20%+. By then, any plan, yours, the Obama's administration, whomever, would be too late. Right now the key is to pump money into this economy. But one has to be careful as to when and how much is enough. Frankly, most well known and higly touted economist say that the Obama administration is not spending enough to stimulate the economy. I tend to agree with them. You don't treat a bad infection with two aspirin. You give it a heavy dose of penecillin. And you don't spread it out over a lengthy period of time as the first less heavy dose will have dissipated in its effectiveness by the time the second dose is administered. You do it fast, heavy and one time.

Everyone should be for lowering taxes Kyle whether it be for individuals, businesses or whomever, and for getting better and more efficient services out of our government for less money. But timing is the key. It is not the right time for any plan that exposes trickle down economics and less government assistance. That is not unless you wish to promote anarchy. And that is what you would get.

Nice chatting with you Kyle.

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Joseph Leopardi — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:03:33 GMT

I have a 21 year-old daughter who is trying to claim her spot in society by working very hard on an IT degree. How heart-breaking it will be if she doesn't get the chance to prove her bootstraps. We are doing our best to raise her right in this time of economic adversity. This article will serve as another testament to the trying times she went through to get where she is going. Hopefully she will get the chance to look back and say close call.

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Matt. Portland OR — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:52:21 GMT

Its a bad time to be young. I'm 21 about to graduate from a private college with a four year degree, yet I am apparently do not have "experience" enough to get what little jobs are out there to earn just a little money for grad school.I didnt take a year off to "find myself", I didn't squander my education through excesive partying, I worked hard and earned good grades so I could have a better future. I want to get a graduate degree because it seems necessary in today's market to go anywhere. Yet I'm worried whether I should take loans for grad school if I cant get a job. But there are no jobs out for me now so I need to go to grad school. See the problem. Also the security I have had under my parents health insurance plan ends this year as well so I wont have health insurance. I know though compared to a lot of people in my generation Im among the luckiest.

I think me and other members of Gen Y are a just little angry that the mistakes and bad policies of our parents and grandparents generations are crashing down on us so hard.

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EDJ — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:52:11 GMT

It really sucks to be young, educated, and loaded with student loan debt. A BA in East Asian studies and History from Oberlin and a MA in journalism from U of Oregon gets you zip in the US. So much for education! Getting a job overseas teaching English is about the only opportunity available at this point. Arrghh

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cindy, las vegas, nv — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:04:56 GMT

Not to be disrespectful but, what about all those families that are in the same position? A family of 5 as apposed to a single adult? I'm not feeling to sorry for that young adult right now. This just doesn't float with me!!

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Russell Fox Wells, Me — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:18:35 GMT

gee i dont see any of the politicians suffering as a matter of fact they travel the tv stations to promote books they have written....Pelosi mus have made all the rounds along with others...You know shes the one who didnt let ous review the stimulus, how come no one ask her about that or the trip she had to go on to avoid the critics...instead of spending time with the media face the real critics the ones who keep you in you luxury office.....fed up Do a town hall with ordinary Americans.......

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Ed, Coppell — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:33:59 GMT

This is an unfortunate by-product of the economic downturn. Like everyone in this country, and the rest of the world, our youth must make hard choices. The most important thing is for them to take responsibility for those choices and not look to others to bail them out. It is time for Americans to show the qualities that built this country...Responsibility, Ingenuity, and Self-Reliance.

Remember...There is no such thing as a free lunch.