throw gas on fire:

If most of the young people used their heads they would realize that they need to adjust their perception what they "need" to what they "must have".

Recognizing that they are shafted at wages they would dump their smart phones, 80" TV,new cars, new wheels, gazillon shoes (both sexes), and shop at Goodwill, Dollar Store, and Wal-mart.

They would also realize that the stimulus plan did not benefit anyone they knew w/a job, that the cash for clunkers got rid of perfectly good cheap cars, and that taxes are a bitch.

There are ways to survive and then move on/up but it will take the type of thinking that our Grandparents used. Share housing, be tight w/money 'cause it ain't there, work, work, be faithful, don't piss money away 'cause it ain't there.

Vote for results which may mean Union, Democrats/Republicans that work the local politics well, Non-Union if that where the jobs are. Results-oriented for them not some other person/locality. Keystone pipeline, fracking, big oil, whatever it takes to put food on the table and a roof over the women/kids.

Man up 'cause it ain't going to happen living on the dole.

"Obama lied, only he had to lie because of those wretched Republicans."

Yep, it is always the fault of the Republicans - those who continue to think that way will always vote for the sick Democrats and get what they deserve. I just wish they wouldn't take the rest of us to hell with them.

Like many millennials, her 20-something son is working brutal hours for minimum wage at an unfulfilling job.

"Upon graduating from college, Seth had discovered that he was fundamentally unequipped to do anything that anybody was willing to pay serious money for." ~ Dave Barry (Insane City)

Most twenty-somethings are not equipped to do anything that anybody is willing to pay them serious money for doing. It's at that age, you spend your time getting yourself equipped.

Most twenty-somethings are struggling to pay the rent and have more bills than income. It's a difficult period in most peoples' lives.

That's the nature of entering the adult world. Realities you didn't need to face as a child come knocking at the door ... and won't go away. Surviving these things with your credit rating, your idealism, and your social support network mostly intact is called growing up.

"Obama lied, only he had to lie because of those wretched Republicans."

We seriously need a sarcasm font since it gets confused for statements of fact on a regular basis.

As for the idea that kids just need to ‘grow up’ meme, understand they have been sold a false bill of sale from the start. We told them how going to college will make lives better, regardless of how much it costs. We showered them with stories of *our* experience: we left college, got a great job, made lots of money and bought a house. We invested in the stock market and made a fortune. Except the market was completely different and most any marginal degree would get you a job, the cost to go to university was substantially lower and housing was considerably more affordable. We were riding the end wave of decades of growth and somehow consider this a mark of our meritocracy. Now all that is left are wounds of the triple-screwing they have received, Herculean amounts of personal and public debt, and an environment where there is nowhere to go but down. And yet somehow they are told ‘just grab onto a pair of bootstraps’! Except those got sold out from under them also.

I truly feel sorry for what has been done to them.

"sick Democrats"

So the Libertarians, Greens, Independents - we can all safely ignore that bit of partisan hyperbole.

Much as the majority of the electorate ignored it in the two previous Presidential elections.

Fortunately for Republicans, a majority went for it in the Congressional elections, and the government was swiftly brought to its knees to halt Obamacare.

Which went about as well as the Republican Presidential campaign strategy, didn't it?

Two parties, Chuck: the wealthy powerful elites, and all the rest of us.

The noise to the contrary is just part of the illusion.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul is always a popular tactic with Paul. A lot of the Millennials thought they were going to be Paul, but they're finding out that they are Peter instead. Now what? Their generation is at an inflection point: will they spend the rest of their lives trying to find the politician who will make the redistribution equation work in their favor, or will they realize that the whole thing is a bad idea? Will the generation that has never known anything but the cocoon embrace freedom, or will the idea frighten them too much? This is the knife edge upon which Western civilization is now perched. If the wrong decisions are made over the next decade or so, it is entirely possible that the remainder of the 21st century will vanish into the fog of a second Dark Age.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul is always a popular tactic with Paul. A lot of the Millennials thought they were going to be Paul, but they're finding out that they are Peter instead. Now what?

Last Day.

"Run Runner!"