Check out Anya Kamanetz' blog. She wrote a bad piece on us during the election but we've forgiven her since, as she is spot on with most everything else! Her focus: the freaked-up economics of being young today.
posted by Hans Riemer at 4:24 PM
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She has some good things to say, but I just wish that she could gone into more depth in some of the articles. But, all in all, I have to agree with her. Some things today are screwed up for our generation today, and it is not right and we should really do something about it. I just don't know exactly what to do, as a lot of youth do these days.
Yeah,
The economics of being young today are rather difficult; especially when your govt. forces you to pay one out of every eight dollars you earn into a structurally flawed, 19th century, socialist, retirement ponzi scheme...
...then again, you wouln't know anything about that, would you, Crock the Vote!
Why, being able to invest a small portion of your payroll taxes in a conservative mix of bonds and stocks might help Americans under 30 begin to save and reverse that economic situation, don't you think Crock the Vote?
Oh wait, I forgot that Crock the Vote was only interested in increasing Government Dependency...
Addressing these questions, it's important to remember that these are values questions before anything else.
The real question is, as Americans, do we value economic freedom, opportunity, and choice; or do we value govenment dependency.
Obviously, Crock the Vote is a big part of that pro-government dependency crowd.
I value economic freedom, opportunity, and choice. I also realize that for the vast majority, those luxuries can only exist in conjunction with government policies that help people plan for the future and protect what they have now.
Every single person in this country depends on the government in some way, whether we like it or not. I'm glad there are still some supportive public programs left (underfunded and crippled as they may be), because as you and others continually illustrate by your comments here, we can't all count on each other.
The economics of being young today suck because of the costs of housing, health care, education, and transportation. Let's talk about improving those things, and not how Rock the Vote sucks.
why does it seem like everyone is against Rock The Vote? I see nothing wrong with it. If you hate it, why come on the bloggs? And I agree with human being, lets get focused on the issues of today!!!!
The economics of being young ALWAYS SUCKED! Why is it that almost all my generation thinks that they are in some kind of unique situation when it comes to their quality of life? My parents lived in a one bedroom apartment for 4 years after they married for Christ’s sake and had 2 kids!
You don’t realize that when you see a 5 bedroom house and six figure income, but you build up to these things when you are in your 50’s and 60’s, not start off with them when you are 22.
Buck up people, our parents did.
"costs of housing, health care, education, and transportation"
These things are being driven up by excessive government regulation. Here in NJ the health insurance market is way over regulated.
For proof go to: https://www.ehealthinsurance.com/ and compare coverage for various states.
A 25 year old female non smoker can choose a catostrophic policy (high deductible) for only $70.72 per month IF she lives in Florida (I put in a zip code of 33010). She would have a choice of 84 plans to choose from.
Yet if I put in my NJ zip code the same female only has 10 plans to choose from with the cheapest being $152.19 per month.
This is a direct result of over regulation of the insurance market in New Jersey.
If government and the repuplicrats would just get out of the way competition would flourish and prices would drop.
That's right r. edgar.
In the last Congress, there was a bill that passed the House to create a national market for Health insurance (ie. you can purchase HI in any state).
Unfortunately, the Dems filibustered that bill to death in the Senate. I don't know why. The only reasons I can come up with are, either:
1) Dems are in the pockets of govt. bureaucrats. This would have been a direct threat to that consituency.
2) If people saw that removing govt. from Health Care provision produced better coverage at lower costs, they would never go for a massive, Hillary-style, Socialist Health Care Monster.
2a) I thought we already learned that lesson in 1994.
I never really looked at that. It is good to knw this information.
Prez also spoke about this very topic today.
well, what did he say about it?
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