56 Replies to “Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation”

  1. At least the cops removed the protester. If it had been in Canada they would have shut down the speaker — for his own protection, don’t ya know!

  2. The translation of “I want a government that is going to help me” is I want everyone else to help me or perhaps I want a government that forces everyone else to pay for what I want. I for one am fed up with this.

  3. in related news . . .
    “This is where I am, and many of my friends are in this position too, just hoping and waiting for either the next better job outside, or some radical shift inside. I’ve thought seriously about changing my LinkedIn profile blurb to something like, “My career goal is to gain a position that energizes, excites, challenges, and values me, so that I can continue to develop my skills and talents, and grow as a person.” I wonder if that would catch anyone’s eye?”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/career-advice/life-at-work/my-friends-and-i-are-in-career-purgatory/article10871722/

  5. Well, it seems he had his lil speech all doled out on his IPhone. We should start calling them Generation Gimme.

  6. “I want a government that is going to help me”
    That is what some of the Russian people wanted also, but look what they got from the government that was going to take care of their every need.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror
    Alain,the younger generations have been fed this socialist “everyone owes me a living” crap in the schools for decades now.

  7. But, but, but, my mommy doesn’t take care of me anymore…..someone needs to take care of me! (Sob)

  8. Compare that to “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”.

  9. If anyone has a chance of earning votes from traditional progressive voters it will be a libertarian. Fairly or unfairly conservatives in the US are as unpopular with the center-left (the only voters that might switch votes) as the federal Liberals have been in Alberta/SK since PET. I doubt that young people, single women, minorities are even willing listen to a US right-wing conservative politician at this point. Maybe if the Republicans stopped treating them like dirt and engaged them like Rand Paul by going to them to talk respectfully about issue (without the media filter)they have a chance of converting them from entitlements thinking to classic liberal values.
    Libertarians have issues that overlap with moderate democratic voters – end the drug war, gay marriage, non-intervention, an end to crony capitalism and bailouts, etc. Even the CPC (via Jason Kenney) realized they had to work harder to get their message out to voters who were once considered hostile to center-right ideas.

  10. It’s not just that young people like the kid in the first video want government to support them, it’s that they want the right to squander that support.
    I have a dear friend who is a vice principal of a middle school in a southern state. She has had a long career and has been tasked with turning around the most problematic schools in her district for the last decade. These are mixed ethnicity schools and she being of mixed ethnicity herself, has a certain credibility that adds to her effectiveness. She has received recognition for same from both the school board and independent organizations.
    That said, she was recently declined contract renewal on the grounds she has been too controversial. One example being that she insisted that the kids who partook of the free breakfast/lunch programs actually eat the food they took. Seems the kids were loading their plates and then only eating half of what they took. She had the audacity to point out the waste as well as the fact that this wasn’t “free” food, somebody, somewhere is paying the tab. Some parents were outraged and demanded my friends removal. This is but one example of her struggles but it speaks to the kid in the video.
    He claimed to be taking “justice studies” which I can only imagine entails all the latest leftist propaganda. He, like the children and parents my friend deals with daily not only demand free stuff, they demand the right to use it in a wasteful fashion.

  11. Wish I could say that it was any different in Canada.
    Doesn’t seem to matter what group it is now-a-days, everyone wants to get on the tit.

  13. The mantra of the useful idiot and future state thrall. They are ignorant of the historic record of government/governors – the state’s “help” given for free, the price attached to government wardship is your liberty and productivity.
    Decadent socialism has produced new generations of helpless needy automatons with every trace of self actuation and self sufficiency sucked out of them by their state programmers – meet the new Eloi. Pathetic really.

  14. I’m not so ambitious. I’ll just say Ask not what your country can do for you, ask yourself what you can do for yourself.

  15. Government help Socialist style?
    “OK. You go to the line on the left. We’ll get you a nice shower while those in the right line get a job.”

  16. I have to agree with you Alain. Another comment also stuck a cord, the idea that this young generation should be referred to as the “Gimmie Generation”.
    Folks, we have become Socialist Europe without even realizing it and it won’t matter that the Europe “cradle to grave” model has already been proven to be a complete failure.

  17. “These darned kids with their entitlement! HOW DARE THEY demand as high a standard of living as the Boomers?!!! ”
    And they just might have got it,John,if your breed of leftardism and its socialist,communist ideas had not come along,starting with the first of the “Gimme Generation” called Turdeau.
    looks like rotor mommie and daddie had better start building bigger basements,so that when the little darlings they raised get home after their GBLT courses,the parents will have some place to live when they take over the upstairs.After all,they deserve it!

  18. Most parents are busy riding herd around their kids 24 hours a day, protecting them, picking them up, dropping them off, catering, ‘understanding’, ‘supporting…..where and when do these hothouse kids grow spines and how can they acquire the courage to feel competent to take care of themselves? Just asking.

  19. My wife has commented many times on her childrens’ sense of entitlement. Her first marriage was with a faculty member in History, and this was back when Arts faculty were paid like churchmice. She notes that her children expect a high standard of living, which she and her first husband barely achieved before he died. Now it is not as bad as you might think – both children work hard at responsible and fairly remunerative positions (earning far more than their father ever earned I might say). But it never seems to be enough … money not available from salaries is to come from loans … from a bank or from us …

  20. A fund should be established to provide kids like this one with a one-way ticket to North Korea, where absolutely everything will be taken care of for him with the possible exception of breakfast, lunch and dinner.

  22. “I want a government that is going to help me” has at least the virtue of honesty and bluntness. The current warfare against the federal Conservatives and the PCs in NL is based on statements that government is dysfunctional and the current governments don’t listen to the people. What surely is meant is that there aren’t enough handouts. In NL the government made a big mistake in its revenue projections (yes, Newfs are stupid and ignorant, with a few very notable exceptions). However, like the dutiful conservatives they are, they are attempting to get expenditures under control. The chorus of squeals from the oinkers faced with a trough not so well filled as they had expected is rising daily. I don’t know how the government can concentrate on their work, so noisy has it become. And one of the louder sounds comes from Dippers smacking their chops at the prospect of controlling the government in a few short years.

  23. Uhm, with a media dedicated to demonizing Conservatives, do you really think that women, minorities, etc., are going to get the message? Conservatives don’t treat those groups ‘like dirt’, they simply expect them to be ADULTS. BTW, it was a Conservative, William F. Buckley Jr., who led the charge for drug decriminalization. Gay marriage is a fringe issue. Most Americans think gays make up 25% of the U.S. population….An end to crony capitalism and bailouts helped jump start the TEA Party. It isn’t that Conservatives have the wrong policies, it’s that women and minorities need to stop seeing Uncle Sam as Uncle Sugar.

  25. NL under Danny and his puppet dunderdale was hardly conservative. They blew the windfall on hiring more govt employees instead of paying down debt and reducing taxes. That plus the utter folly that is the lower Churchill and the link to the island and NS could bankrupt the province in the next few years.
    The cuts happening now won’t fix the problem either. Bottom won’t be hit until another hundred thousand leave the province or die.

  26. Actually Jema54 there are actually management courses that don’t figure kids will grow one so easy. After all a young worker is defined as up until the age of 24 which I thought was high, and your not supposed to expect much from them without much praise and patience with their work ethic (if there is one)….. I’ve been trying to find minutes of one of these BS seminars but to me it’s basically to cushion the workplace to mirror their eternally “nurturing” home environment where much isn’t expected from them, but everything is from people that have to deal with these spoiled kids.You think they would at least know the value of work or have a clue by their early teen years but many in their early twenties seem so clueless on the earning part of a job?

  27. “I’m a dollar sign with a heartbeat in this nation.”
    Actually, a dollar sign is how HE views every taxpayer in the nation.

  28. I’m becoming more convinced that part of this whole “entitlement” and “not my fault” thing may have been created by us, simply by us having accepted the BS that so-called experts have fed us. My grandson, going from playschool to kindergarten, was assessed by a self-professed educational consultant as having ADHD, and had a need to be placed on Ritalin. She was so persistent that my daughter felt compelled to move to another school district to get away from her. It didn’t work. This woman was relentless.
    Considering that there was no bloody way I’d allow my grandson to be subjected to a dangerous drug like Ritalin for no reason, other than perhaps meeting the diasgnosis quota of this evil woman, I had to step in. So I paid roughly $500 for an accomplished psychologist with a specialty in educational matters to assess him….conclusion, he didn’t have ADHD…rather, he was gifted.
    Even with that, the woman persisted…I had to have my lawyer send her a letter indicating that I would sue her back into the stone age unless she dropped the matter. That worked.
    I’ve heard from others who have had similar experiences,

  29. I think that they have to find a way around the media, including FOX. They will have to get off their butts and go in person to the colleges, the ethnic associations and wherever else they can speak directly to voters. But the conservative message will fall flat because, despite what you believe, they have way too much baggage due the Drug War, WMD, gay marriage/homophobia, abortion (Akin), fundamentalists religious attitudes and most other social issues. Shouting “Buckley” will be as successful as the LPC shouting “Laurier” – no one cares. And, remember, the Tea Party was also angry at the RNC establishment’s flagrant welfare/warfare/debt/deficit/bailout spending.
    Libertarians, via Ron Paul, have already made inroads with young people and libertarians are in the best position to expand their acceptance to minorities and women. They are cooler and more tolerant, IMO. Conservatives are as tribal as Democrats and both treat “The Other” like dirt.

  30. “These darned kids with their entitlement! HOW DARE THEY demand as high a standard of living as the Boomers?!!!” John
    You really have to be some kind of a dolt, John!
    The difference is, the ‘boomers’ made do with next to nothing when they started out. Living in some decrepit basement suite while earning peanuts at the bottom level entry job, driving a ten year old beater, their idea of a holiday- a weekend at the closest lake. Their ‘privilege’ eventually showed up thirty years down the road.
    Now, nothing less than a high paying job, brand new house, car, high tech toys, tropical vacation, is the expected starting point.
    Yeah, keep up with the envy/guilt meme.

  31. As pathetic as this kid might seem to us, do you really think it is any different in this country?
    The fact that jr. trudeau has traction at all suggests otherwise. After all he is this kid. A man of no accomplishment but one of great appeal.
    And quite frankly who could really be attracted to the message of a U.S. right wing conservative?

  32. John: You completely missed the entire point. I’m a boomer, born just after the war. My father spent the most productive tears of his life flying aircraft in the RAF, and getting significantly wounded in the process. After the war ended he was demobilized, with little more than a handshake. I grew up in wartime housing…every one around us was a war veteran. We were all poor…we just didn’t realize it back then.
    Some people would consider me wealthy now…when I croak my two kids certainly will never have any monetary worries for the rest of their lives, unless they do something stupid. But what I have is from working incredibly hard, scrimping and saving and driving crappy cars and denying my wife and I luxuries when my family was young.
    So don’t give me any crap that my generation was privileged…I worked for everything I now have, and no-one handed me anything, not that I would have accepted it anyway…

  34. “I want a government that is going to help me”
    Always without exception turns into empty shelves. No upward mobility. Political & cultural segregation. Than finally Gulags with death camps.
    Looking to men for security is like pigs asking the butcher for kindness.

  35. This fool doesn’t realise that the party isn’t just winding down; it’s nearly over. There will be no money or people to look after this alleged adult and no screaming special-interest group can change that.

  36. Same deal happened to my nephew with ritalin. It took legal threats for them to back off. I’ve hear the same story several times and it’s always female “educators” drugging unruly boys.

  38. LC Bennett, completely agree. What I thought was the stupidest moment in the RNC was when Ron Paul was arbitrarily shut out. Watching Rand Paul in the clip is impressive and I only can hope that he keeps his Libertarian ideals in the moral-rotting environment of Washington.
    One thing I’ve found, as a Libertarian, is that for a lot of middle of the road folks, social conservatism turns them off completely. That’s why I’ve said that PMSH’s stupidest mistake thus far was to not decriminalize cannabis. That may have cost the CINO’s most of BC as people take their weed seriously in this province.
    Also, I find that when I’m discussing politics with such people we find ourselves agreeing about most things and I have a far easier time getting them to accept basic tenets of freedom from government interference by trashing the war against (some) drugs (WOsD). Abortion is a particularly touchy topic among such people and, if one realizes that primarily moonbats are getting abortions, in a few generations the moonbat genes will have disappeared. I know some people who left the US because they hated George Bush so much. We get along well because we both hate George Bush equally, but for different reasons. I’ll get nods of agreement when I point out that George Bush trashed the US constitution with the Patriot Act, but then sow doubts in their minds when I point out that Obozo has repealed none of the totalitarian measures that GWB enacted and is abusing these criminal laws far more than GWB.
    WRT the entitlement mentality, I believe that this is to a large degree the fault of parents who seem to feel the need to interfere in every aspect of their children’s lives. When I grew up, we were largely left to our own devices and would walk or bike to school alone, would plan our own games, made explosives and blew things up in the woods, had rifles at age 13 and hunted gophers and it was a major embarrassment to have a parent who insisted on micromanaging a kids affairs. Back in those days there was no attempt by parents to become kids friends but rather there was the swift beating when one crossed the line or being grounded for several weeks. I incurred my parent’s wrath when I accidentally set off a batch of gunpowder in the house basement and when I decided to even the odds in a fight against some other boys by picking up a shovel and whacking a couple of them over the head with it. (never understood why I got punished for the latter episode as I thought it was a perfectly valid form of self defense and, besides, at age 12 I was too young to be held criminally liable for my actions). After that I just used my fists and feet in fights.
    The current crop of kids are never allowed to be on their own and become independent. They’re driven by one of their parents to and from school. I’ve had patients bemoan the amount of time this takes to get their kids to school, but when I suggest letting them walk alone, I get a shocked look from the parent who immediately launches into a recitation of all the hazards their kids will face from pedofiles, careless drivers, etc. The same kids don’t seem to have a moment of free time like we used to and their day is filled with organized activities and there isn’t a single moment where they’re allowed to just be kids. No wonder that such progeny want a government to look after them when they grow up.
    When I grew up, we were allowed to go into the bush alone armed with just a .22 rifle and I remember getting instructions to make sure I aimed for the eye socket if attacked by a cougar as the bone was the thinnest there and a single shot from a .22 could thus abort a cougar attack. Fortunately in those days bears were shot at often enough that they would retreat rapidly in the presence of people. Coyotes were also afraid of people then unlike the current urban coyotes in Vancouver that are bold enough to steal peoples food in Stanley park or abscond with their pets.
    What I propose is that parents not be allowed to interfere in their kids lives and, paradoxically, it may take a limited totalitarian government to take the coddled modern progeny of over-involved parents and put them into a wilderness environment where they either learn how to survive or they die. I lost friends to car accidents, explosives “accidents” and overindulgence in various drugs. Thus, my weltanshauung might have a significant aspect of survivorship bias. However, those of us who survived are one hell of a lot more self reliant than the current pampered youngsters who’ve never been involved in a fistfight, have no idea how to survive in the woods and assume that their life will be totally planned for them. No wonder they pine for a government that controls every aspect of their lives like mommy and daddy used to.

  39. I am 58 remember as a kid going gopher hunting with my friends . Ten kids , all with BB guns screaming like banshees and shooting our guns in the air. By todays standards everyone of us must have had ADHD. In todays world all of us would be rounded up and put on Ritalin within an hour.

  40. To paraphrase the Iron Lady, the government can do everything for you only if it takes everything from you. Unfortunately, for some of these serf wannabes, that may actually be seen as a desirable state of affairs. They’d rather live like ants in a colony than like free men in the world. And from a different angle, when he says he wants the government to look after him, he’s really saying he wants everyone around him who actually produces anything of value to look after him. And what exactly will he do in return for those around him? With “justice studies” i.e. grievance mongering 101 — not much. His only productive contribution to society will be flipping hamburgers.

  41. Bruce, when I practiced in Vancouver it was routine for me to get referrals from school teachers to treat a kid for “ADHD”. I have a very simple test for diagnosing ADHD; if I can talk to the kid and they participate in the conversation like anyone else would do, they don’t have ADHD — they’re normal boys. If, instead, the kid runs around the exam room, tries to squirt the mercury out of the top of the sphygmomanometer and reaches into the sharps bucket to see what kind of neat things he can find there, I diagnose them with ADHD and prescribe Ritalin.
    I estimate that 95% of the “ADHD” cases sent to me were just normal boys totally bored in a class taught by an incompetent female teacher. Under the schools diagnostic criteria, I have absolutely no doubt that I’d have been diagnosed as ADHD and “oppositional defiant disorder” when I was a kid. The kids who are supposed to be terrorizing their classrooms are perfectly normal when I interact with them and, the only “fault” I can find in them is that they’re not particularly interested in obeying stupid rules. Also, they can’t respect moonbat female teachers as I was unable to do. The best teachers I had were all male where there was always the threat of a thrashing if one deviated from their rules (back in the days where teachers were allowed to physically discipline students). Also, male teachers know how to motivate boys far more than females who are touchy feely and that’s the last thing boys need — impugn a boys manhood and he’ll be damn determined to prove you wrong. Coddle him and he’ll grow up to be a wimp.
    Given that ADHD has equal prevalence in males and females, probably 99% of females with ADD (they aren’t hyperactive) are never sent to physicians as they just sit in class daydreaming away and, because they’re quiet, teachers think they’re wonderful students that just don’t live up to their potential. They’re the ones that need Ritalin to snap them out of their daydreaming and concentrate on school work.
    Fortunately where I practice now there’s more of an acceptance of boys being boys and the very few kids I get asked to screen for ADD really do need treatment.

  42. Spot on, snagglepuss.
    As a Baby Boomer I worked my ass off for every thing I have and got no breaks, none.
    Want to buy your own home? 25% Down first, that’s the way it was.
    How do you save a 25% down payment?
    Sacrifice baby, delayed gratification.
    How do you pay off your mortgage?
    Sacrifice, baby, delayed gratification.
    But, but, but I’ve got to party and go to the bar so I can meet my significant other and…hook up for a while to see if we can commit!/low watt generation who-gives-a-rat’s-ass whiner
    Yes, wages are depressed because…fewer jobs thanks to unions.
    In my time the number of available jobs were halved virtually overnight because of woman’s liberation. Not only that, but the government set goals of 500K immigrants/year, same as now.
    The difference is that although the target is still 500k per/year today the Canadian population is 30 years larger down the road from that little un-discussed issue so the impact was harder then.
    ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
    –“I Want A Government That Is Going To Help Me”–
    “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.”
    ~source unknown
    Imagine, if you will, that you are this young college student who gives government this power.
    Now imagine that after this kind of power is enshrined in law for all time, that the worst political regime in the history of mankind has just assumed this power that he thought was only going to be wielded by his ideal politician during this blip in time.
    Horror show, right?
    Who knew governments could be malevolent as well as beneficent?
    Not that young zealot, nuh-huh.
    What evil would someone like him NOT DO if the beneficent government told him it would help the earth or help bring social justice?

  43. “…That’s why I’ve said that PMSH’s stupidest mistake thus far was to not decriminalize cannabis.”
    I think his biggest mistake has been not taking action on the property rights front. Here is ‘the’ single issue that Harper could use to gain the support of the majority of the population, and he’s shoved it to the farthest, darkest corner of his policy garage. I mean, how hard would it be to sell property rights?
    Tell you what, if Pierre’s Pup stands up and starts championing the right kind of property rights, Harper’s solid rural base will start crumbling.

  44. … BC as people take their weed seriously in this province.
    No doubt why BC is so screwed up. Take drugs to ward off reality.

  45. Jamie MacMaster >
    “…I mean, how hard would it be to sell property rights?”
    Even our good PM Harper is somewhat beholden to UN Agenda 21 while politicizing in our wonderful “global community”.
    Giving property rights wouldn’t be very Progressive and a big step back in the eye’s of Europe’s Liberal elites, not unlike gun rights.
    They don’t give rights, they take em.

  46. “…Even our good PM Harper is somewhat beholden to UN Agenda 21 while politicizing in our wonderful “global community”.
    Oh, BS. That’s just a convenient place to point a finger to excuse inactivity.
    Property rights featured prominently in Harper’s 2006 campaign literature.

  47. Rounded up by a SWAT team, Brian. And your “arsenal” of BB guns put on display at a press conference.

  49. Loki, I agree with most of your comment. I particularly like the “sowing the seeds of doubt” bit. Conservatives who actually want to earn new voters acceptance have to stop being so boorish and learn to find points of agreement to build on. It feels great to bash your opponent but the middle of the road voters see only aggression and immaturity.
    Re:boys…if you want to let boys be boys you pretty much have to live in a rural area, far away from cities. Hunting, fishing, unhelmeted play and unsupervised adventure have been all but eliminated by the urban/suburban safety culture. One of my older neighbors commented “your kids play like old-fashioned kids”. Although we do not allow them to use guns without parental supervision.

  50. Thanks to Loki I have a new word in my vocabulary. My weltanshauung is certainly not that of the generation coming of age.

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