Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #2

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It has got to suck to be a youngster in today's economy. I can find a number of experienced, work- ethical, no-drama, middle-aged and oldsters who just want a job, not necessarily looking to climb the ladder. A young hipster just can't compete.

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I agree.

Here's my perspective. I was given a lot of grief for saying I understood the complaints of the very first members of Occupy Wall Street

Before sundry statists, progressives, and anarchists got involved. i.e. before occupy Wall Street hit the national media, I saw some interviews of a rag tag band of young people and a few elders supporting them. They all said pretty much the same thing. The young people had done what the adults in their lives advised. Get in debt and get a college education. The jobs that they would be eligible for upon graduation would be well worth it. No one had a clue what went wrong, but they knew something was very wrong when there wasn't even the opportunity of getting a job.

They knew wall street and international finance were making money hand over fist and in error blamed them as the sole cause of the poor job market.

What was missing from the conversation was the fact the big government and crony capitalists had joined in exporting jobs at all levels, and importing illegal and legal workers who paid either no or very partial taxes, and were subsidized by government transfers to which they technically were not entitled. However being 'disadvantage minorities' it was illegal and highly un PC to require proof of eligibility for the freebies. In turn those 'fortunate' enough to have a job were subject to a heaver and heaver tax burden.

For a long time the transfer of wealth from the middle class of the US, inflation, and a softening job market were hidden by jimmied statistics, lower than market interest rates on loans, cheap electronic toys, and analysts pimping the notion that the Fed had conquered economic down turns; your income, the value of your assets in particular your home, were on an never ending up swing.

Happy Days were where gain and were never going away. Well our global statist chickens have come home to roost. Ironically most young people have been educated to believe that the cause will be the cure: large, statist, micro managing, nanny state government.