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The soft generation that embraces Obama, and can't figure out how to support itself.

On the rise: People in their 30s living with their parents



You might think it's ironic that young people vote in big numbers for Barack Obama, but rising numbers of them can't support themselves under his economic policies - so much so that the Washington Post reports growing numbers of people in their 30s are going back home to live with Mom and Dad.
But I don't think it's ironic. I think it makes perfect sense. The same generation of people who buy Obama's rhetoric blasting independence and self-sufficiency, and touting government as the source from which you should expect to get everything you need, also applies the same philosophy of dependence to their own personal lives. It's too hard to keep a job. It's too hard to meet your own obligations via your own efforts. It's too hard to save any money. So Mom and Dad need to once again provide for you as you near 40, just as the government needs to provide your health care, your retirement, your food stamps. The philosophy seems perfectly consistent to me. The Washington Post reports (and not the sentence in bold):

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Overall, 57 million Americans — 18 percent of the population — lived in multi-generational families in 2012, double the number in 1980. There are almost as many young adults 25 to 34 living in these families than there are people under 18. The growth reflects a more profound and historic change than the rise in adults younger than 25 who could not find jobs during the recession and temporarily moved back home. The increase in the age group just above them is a striking reversal of a pattern that held through most of the 20th century, when each year registered a decline in multi-generational living. The turning point came in the 1980s, and the number has grown every year since.
This is simply astonishing. Part of it is surely attributable to the sorry economy we've endured under Obama, but there's more to it than that. I think the biggest factor is the way young people think today. Those who embrace big government notions of wealth redistribution are buying the idea that wealth is not really earned. It's just a product of who got lucky or gamed the system. So they waste all their time agitating for the system to change instead of recognizing that anyone can improve their own situation by embracing and practicing good habits and good life principles. I don't know if you blame the ethos of MTV, the Democrats or the growing secularization of a population that has little use for God's principles of hard work and self-sacrifice, but we've raised a generation that wants to party and yelp about its "rights" without recognizing its responsibilities - to itself and to those around it. Obama has encouraged this every step of the way, telling young people they should expect to be able to have sex without consequences, that they should be able to stay on their parents' health insurance until they are well into adulthood, that they should borrow money for college and not expect to have to pay it back (just like he does on a much more massive scale), and that, hey, he relates to them because he smoked pot! In other words, sure, be infantile morons. The government will have your back. So a generation that thinks like this will raise kids who will think like this to even greater degrees. This idiot generation rebelled against their parents' lessons of hard work and personal responsibility. The children of the idiot generation can skip the rebellion. They will never have had any responsible parents to model the right way to live. That means they're going to be in big trouble when they're looking for someone to move back in with at 30. Their parents are n'er do wells and they're going to be too. This is the thinking our nation has embraced, so much so that if you point out 47 percent of the population are bloodsucking sponges off government largese, that's a negative and it hurts your ability to win a presidential election. I think the real reason Obama won and Mitt Romney lost is that Romney represents the responsible thinking of the parental generation that has worked hard enough and earned enough to be able to take in the lazy, no good, 30-something kids. Obama represents the lazy, no good, 30-something kids (as well as the lazy no good people who are younger than that), and apparently there are now more of them. Which draws me to the same conclusion I usually reach in pieces like this. Goodbye, America. It's only a matter of time before the jig is up when we allow ourselves to turn into this.


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