Politics PEW: 40% of Millennials Don't believe in Free Speech

Again, it's definitions. What was the labor participation rate in Jan, 2009? And do you think the last month is the indicative one? What was the average U6 or U3 for President Bush's and President Obama's tenures? Most people would average out such numbers, not take one of the worst numbers from one administration and one of the best from another.

People think it's a recession (even though it technically isn't), because the "recovery" was a dead cat bounce. Now that recovery has run out of steam and we're just bouncing on the bottom waiting to drop further.

 

Oh, dear. I see you are trying to pretend you're well-acquainted with economic theory when you are trying to hold people to specific definitions (the letter) but ignoring the larger picture (the spirit).

Yes, you are technically correct when you say that those terms have specific meanings. However, if you ask most people how to calculate the unemployment rate, they couldn't do it. And especially not the different specific unemployment rates. So they're wrong. Big deal. Do you think those 34% feel good about this economy? It's been a disaster for specific sectors of it.

And LOL about "way off the bottom". It's been the weakest recovery since WWII. And any decent economist will tell you that the deeper the recession, the bigger the bounceback. This recession most modeled 81-82. Instead, the recovery has looked like that coming out of the recession of 1929-33. Of course, that one was much deeper, but we're seeing the same kind of bounceback, and that's what so troubling.

As for who is making everyone feel bad, I see you forget what the Democrats said about life in the Bush era. I personally remember the snarky replies of Democratic politicians when presented with low U3 and U6 numbers like, "Sure people have jobs, and they're working three of them just to make ends meet". Today, they don't even have the option of working three of those jobs. Sorry your fragile snowflakes can't take other politicians pointing out the flaws in the "recovery". Perhaps if it were actually a robust recovery, the evil Republicans wouldn't be able to spin it in such a mean way.

 

Different era, same old boring Barfo. All you wish to do is win your narrow definition. Yep, you're the one with Tiger Blood here. Enjoy.

 

Way to derail a thread guys.

Anyways, millenials are fucking morons. They are more concerned with pointing out problems and blaming someone than actually fixing the problem. They know fixing a problem takes time and effort. if they don't get the change in a short amount of time, they give up. It's called the microwave generation.

It's a Damn shame too. They could make so Much good change in this world with all the social media platforms and tools they have available to them. Instead they just like to bitch and put blame on others

 

What I don't get about my generation (if I even count as a millennial-1994) is how hypocritical they are. Full of anti-gov conspiracy theorists yet want MORE gov. Don't get me even started on their gender logic and shit, it's like a scene out of idiocracy.

 

Agreed. I'm a millennial too, and I can't stand 90% of them.

 

I have never understood that contradiction either. If someone of your generation could explain it to me, it would be appreciated it.

 

We're truly fucked. Are the only kids left with brains missing college because they got hooked on video games?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...remembering-9-11-is-offensive-to-muslims.html

 

All I will say is kids are generally looked at ending the world as we know it. Yet, as those kids age, as they acquire additional responsibility, they usually wisen up.

 

Really? You have stats saying that the top 1% have only 1% of wages and ownership? Please provide them, so that we can send them to every Economics department to correct every Economics professor in the world.

 

The younger, born in the 90s ones were the first of the everyone gets a trophy and is a winner all the time group of kids. They want to have their cake and eat it too.

 

It has become the age of entitlements and destruction of those that disagree with them. It's pretty sad really that the large group of a generation would even agree to give up our first amendment right.