I am sad for our future...

Granted, the way we are practicing Capitalism right now is not the best way. The government is ruining the way the system is supposed to be. We need to get them to back the F off and let the free market dictate successes and failures... corruption is a problem that should be dealt with. But as crappy as Capitalism is, it's the best thing the world has at this point.

 

It is in regards to this link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp...ism-poll-shows/

 

I'll leave this quote that I am rather fond of:

 

"Then you will see the rise of the men of the double standard–the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money–the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law–men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims–then money becomes its creators’ avenger. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they’ve passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter."

 

“Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing–when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors–when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that is does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot" - Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand.

"Who is John Galt?"

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Hard to believe that a bunch of kids, mostly coddled their entire life and shielded from reality, think that a system of self sufficiency is wrong. Life is not fair, get over it and play the cards you are dealt....

Hard to believe that a bunch of kids, mostly coddled their entire life and shielded from reality, think that a system of self sufficiency is wrong. Life is not fair, get over it and play the cards you are dealt....

 

 

Sadly, these disaffected youth have been raised to believe that someone, (be it their parents, their employees or the state) will take care of them their entire lives.

 

The true tragedy is that they rebel against the system, never realizing that THEY ARE FULLY PART OF THAT VERY SYSTEM.

 

Ultimately, it is they who will have to pay for the very programs and services that they believe they should receive for free.

 

 

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Pack them up and ship them out to North Korea, morons!

I unfortunately have been labeled as a millennial (by birth year not by choice or viewpoints) and I cant wrap my head around they way these people think. I worked my ass off to get where I'm at and while its not quite to the level I thought i would be at at this point in my life, I blame no one else but myself, and put my nose back to it and work harder.

Now with that said am I happy with the way the country is run, not exactly. But I don't go crying for a freaking hand out. I do my civic duty and vote according to how i feel it should be run (even if my vote accounts for very little in this hippy state).

My biggest complaint about these social justice warriors that are so prevalent in this day and age is their unwillingness to listen or even have a conversation, its an "Im right you're wrong and you are an evil person for not being like me"

 

Sorry *end rant*

Ultimately, it is they who will have to pay for the very programs and services that they believe they should receive for free.

 

This statement by member 1207 a few posts back pretty much sums it up when people think they get things for free they are being played by the politicians.

Ayn Rand was a loyal family friend from the 1930's until 1982.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Yikes. I get sick of the everyone gets a trophy attitude. People get jealous of people who are successful, people make others who have done great things feel like shit because they're "selfish" (yeah how dare someone be successful), and of course there is this expectation that everyone is a special little flower.

 

Maybe you suck at things, maybe you suck at a lot of things, maybe you don't have any fcuking skills. I don't know you, and I don't care, it's not my problem. I'm concerned with my success, I'm concerned with my accomplishments and helping people along the way. However, it is not my duty to pick up your slack, carry you along the way and make you feel like you're special for doing jack shit along the way. No. You climb the rungs of the ladder like the rest of us, you work for your shit, you are responsible for your happiness and your success. Not me, not your mommy, not your daddy, not your friends, and not the government. You.

 

This drives me crazy.

I'm not sure how many of you had a shitty highschool job. I myself had a shitty highschool job where I saw first hand what a failure the welfare system and many people in this country are.

 

The town was Uniontown Pennsylvania. Formerly a booming town, now half of it a slump filled with ghettos and drugs addicts. Every day I would go to work and see the same people. They had no drive, no ambition, no goals in life. Many of them did the bare minimum that they needed to in order to get the job done. Sometimes the job wouldn't get done at all. The same was for the other McDonalds I worked at in Florida, which I hate to say, employed a lot of Ghetto people. The McDonalds in Pennsylvania was the highest grossing store in the entire state for one reason: welfare. I kid you not, on the 1st and 15th of every month, there would be a line of people on welfare going down the street from 8 in the morning until night time and cars would even block the highway onramps waiting to get into the drive thru. Everyone would call off of work leaving myself and the few people who actually needed to support their families running the store. Every single person that came in the store would have an EBT card. Most would order 10 to 20 burgers. It was disturbing and your tax dollars were paying for it. There were programs available for employees to become crew trainers and receive higher pay or even become a manager very very few would sign up. There were times when workers boycott the store and would demand higher pay. It was a joke. People thought they were entitled to more.

 

I feel as though we've been headed this way for a while and it's only going to get worse.

Well thankfully the worst of the worst, Bernie Sanders hasnt got a prayer. There is hope for us yet...

Well thankfully the worst of the worst, Bernie Sanders hasnt got a prayer. There is hope for us yet...

 

 

The old creep laid off a bunch of his workers, hahaha.

When I hear some people talk about how it is not fair, and this should be free, and why don't I have that, I just stand there with this look on my face . The best is people bitching about their student loans and looking to have them forgiven because they can't afford them. Please do not tell me that you took them thinking you would have a job to pay them immediately or not know how much it was going to be. People say there are no jobs. No, there are plenty of jobs, just ones you may not WANT to do. I have student loans and have been working my ass off to pay them off and I am almost done. I worked some crappy jobs after college getting paid $8.50hr at one and another working almost 80hrs a week for not much. Did I enjoy it? Hell no, but I wasn't going to ask anybody else to support me. I took those experiences and look back and say "I never want to be in that situation again, and I will not be". I strived to do better and still am everyday. My generation wants everything now but doesn't want to hear or do what it takes to get to "that point". Everything is about what they want not what they need at the moment. They want to go to Z from A without the other steps. Effort goes a long f**g way.

 

P.S. There is hope, as not all of us millennials are like those morons. Unfortunately like Saleenfan said, we are grouped just because of our age.

One of the best Jobs I had when I was young was manual labor at a warehouse loading trucks for McLane. There were people there that were lifers. So it was a quick reality check before college to push myself knowing where I did not want to end up.

Let's take a step back here and give ourselves some fcuking credit. There is something about each of us in our own stations in life that are not because we took all the tests, and answered all the questions right. Not everyone gets to be an astronaut when they grow up.

 

Want a reality check? Go to your 20 year HS reunion. Take a look at how many people decided to return to their home town.

Let's take a step back here and give ourselves some fcuking credit. There is something about each of us in our own stations in life that are not because we took all the tests, and answered all the questions right. Not everyone gets to be an astronaut when they grow up.

 

Want a reality check? Go to your 20 year HS reunion. Take a look at how many people decided to return to their home town.

 

I already went to my 10 yr a little while ago and it was vastly disappointing.

The old creep laid off a bunch of his workers, hahaha.

 

What a monster ! He's so greedy ! He should supply them a free living for ever. Let's protest his rally's.

This is how I picture 99% of todays generation, and every single Bernie supporter.

 

This is how I picture 99% of todays generation, and every single Bernie supporter.

 

 

 

Let's take a step back here and give ourselves some fcuking credit. There is something about each of us in our own stations in life that are not because we took all the tests, and answered all the questions right. Not everyone gets to be an astronaut when they grow up.

 

Want a reality check? Go to your 20 year HS reunion. Take a look at how many people decided to return to their home town.

 

My 20 is a little over 2 months away! Sheesh!

My 20 is a little over 2 months away! Sheesh!

My 25 is in two months.

As a european citizen(and entrepreneur might I add) where what you guys would call "socialism" is the norm and Bernie Snaders would almost be called right wing it is interesting to watch the arguements of both sides.

One thing I never understood for instance are those crazy sums of money you seem to be needing for college in the US.

Wouldn´t it be wise to make it more affordable(and I´m not talking about free). Cause in the end it creates high end jobs who in return create higher tax payers and also drive innovation and job growth and give the country an edge over others. Why would you not wanna encourage those things?

Especially if you look at all the cash the universities are hording and essentially keeping away from the economy. What for?

Now in europe it is free in most countries nowadays and I agree and have no problem paying a little more in income taxes to help finance it for the benefit of all.

 

Now there are also things I don´t agree with, like the social security tax which is just an obscene amount here and just seems to be a tool to make the politicians richer.

The problem with college, is the more money the government has "made available" to help everyone go to college, has just made college drive the prices up. It has had no real effect. I also feel this whole "if everyone goes to college it will make a smarter better society and economy." No, just no. Sure college is great for specialized trades of sorts, but the majority of college students don't come back smarter and more adept. Going to school to learn Sanskrit, or 1500's English poetry, is a waste of fcuking money.

 

The problem with someone like Sanders...is the whole mentality. You have a group of successful people who made sacrifices to give their kids the best. Build businesses on their own working long hours and leveraging their lives and every penny they have to have earned it. They get success, and put their kids in great schools, daycare, and shit like that. Now you have this old senile bastard who says "its not fair that the majority of people cant afford the things that the rich have worked hard to attain". "Lets tax the fcuk out of them, so everyone can have what they have sacrificed so much to achieve." It just doesn't make sense.