And that’s why I’m child-proofing my basement.
h/t Harry
14 Replies to “The Children Are Our Future”
The death of Adulthood from the bad hands people.The Socialist welfare, social justice, Na-boobs of over regulation coupled with big Government taxes for a political Elite. Using the collective culture of Marxism driven social engineering, to destroy individual accountability, along with individual rights.
The super State as Mommy’s Caste generating dictatorship
Young people voted for this. Not a problem for them. They’ll just smoke ‘health’ products in the basement with their boomer parents, gotta take care of their health now that Obama owns it – wouldn’t want to disappoint him, again!
Wish we had kept the ole farmhouse, it was a hell of a lot bigger than this box I reside in now in Vancouver!
26 year old’s are now considered children. Times have certainly changed over the last few decades. The nanny state and education system have done a great job.
The chart is also interesting in the fact that mortgage interest rates are at a historical low. When this economic house of cards collapses and interest rates as well as inflation rises,there will be a huge spike in people losing their homes. Just lucky we have a lot of overpasses that will accommodate whole families.
No allowance and you are responsible for your own bills goes a long way.. But not far enough for any of them to leave 5 bucks on the kitchen table at the end of the week.. Three quarters done as a man and half done as a parent.. Close enough but not to far.. Its hard to be mean when you love them so.. Go have fun while you can.. Let the world crush them because I surly can not.. Thats why they call me DADDY..
I find it helps if I dont think about it 🙂
Speaking of spoiled and useless spawn
Justin turdo today complained about Tom (look of rage) mulcair pandering to separatists. It was in cbcpravda. No,no mention of him declaring for queerbec two years ago
I call shenanigans.
This graph is misleading. If both left and right scales were equal and went from 0 to 100% the solid line would be a little squiggle hovering around 12% (plus or minus 2%) and the dashed line would be a squiggle hovering around 40% (plus or minus 3%). Hell, the not-included error bars are probably twice the magnitude of the variance.
Not only is this misleading, it is intentionally misleading. Both graphs are dealing with the same units (percentage of people in a given demographic) and there should properly only be a single vertical axis. Not included is the percentage who neither live with parents nor own their own home – a number which can be inferred to be to be around 48%, plus or minus 5%.
This sort of bastardization of math pisses me off in climate science, which is bad enough. I see no reason to allow it even when it appears to score my side of the political spectrum some points. It is a blatant attempt to mislead people.
Somewhat less dramatically
For those under 35 home ownership went up 5% over ten years then back down 5% during the next 10 years. [to one in three]
In the same periods 25-34 year-olds living with parents went down 2% percent then up 4%. [to one in seven]
END TIMES fer shur.
It’s almost as though there’s a trend present. Hmm. Maybe majority in the senate? No, that’s just correlation. Maybe party of president? No, that’s just correlation. Maybe by reporting of how mean conservatives are? Yes, that works better. It’s all the fault of conservatives when the glorious leader’s plans produce their predicted resul… er, I mean, fail.
This is completely unsurprising. We are slowly turning into Europe where people inherit their parents’ homes cause no one (other than the wealthy) can afford property.
You have 20-somethings with: huge student loan debt, dim job prospects, and enormous real estate prices. In Calgary, I don’t even know how the average family can afford to buy a home anymore. At least not a decent one. In September, the average sale price was close to $520,000. How can you afford that unless you make six figures? When we looked recently, the homes in that price range were either cookie-cutter boxes an hour out of downtown or complete teardowns. Buying a decent house in Calgary is now a $700,000 outlay. Not many 29 year olds can afford that.
Just wanted to quickly note how much this saddens me. Although I fully understand the sentiment of people in this thread that youth are far too coddled by the state and parents (they are), I would ask you to temper your consideration with a understanding that things are a bit different now than they used to be in the past.
I, myself, am fully employed (in a lucrative/prestigious financial position), and am a home-owner. Yet I still turn to my parents from time to time for some assistance when a collision of sudden expenses occurs. Part of this may be due to the fact that I insist on saving directly into locked in RRSP/TFSA accounts from my paycheque, as I have little faith in any CPP etc. to exist by the time I am remotely near retirement.
Nonetheless, I am always embarassed to receive support from my parents, as much as they enjoy giving it. I try to comfort myself by saying that once I am a bit further progressed in my career I will return the favor when they are in their retirement, but it does little to assuage my embarassment at not being fully self-reliant.
That being said, I wonder at how othe of my generation would be able to do any better. Stifling unemployment rates, high costs of living, and even higher costs of home ownership are formidable barriers. Although there are definitely a bunch of lotus-eaters and slackers (whom I cannot stomach), I think that you will find that a large chunk of young people, like their parents before them, are eager to work and earn a living.
Unfortunately, elements of government get in the way. Taxation + regulation damages the economy, and the fist to feel the pinch are the younger workforce. Don’t forget that it is we who will bear the burden of the current generation’s failed social, fiscal, and overly environmental policies.
That being said, I hope that increasing trends of telecommuting will allow for workers to detach themselves from urban centers and purchase rural property and lifestyles for themselves. Not only might this be more plausible with respect to cost and an IT industry, but it could also prove beneficial to raise up more conservative, common-sense, voters as they leave the decadence of modern cities behind.
Cheers.
What Ed said, plus:
Neither axis starts at 0, which is also misleading.
As the old saying goes, this graph uses stats like a drunk uses a lamppost – for support, not illumination.
Unfortunately, elements of government get in the way. Taxation + regulation damages the economy, and the fist to feel the pinch are the younger workforce. Don’t forget that it is we who will bear the burden of the current generation’s failed social, fiscal, and overly environmental policies.
Excuses. Don’t spend more than you make, pretty simple.
The death of Adulthood from the bad hands people.The Socialist welfare, social justice, Na-boobs of over regulation coupled with big Government taxes for a political Elite. Using the collective culture of Marxism driven social engineering, to destroy individual accountability, along with individual rights.
The super State as Mommy’s Caste generating dictatorship
Young people voted for this. Not a problem for them. They’ll just smoke ‘health’ products in the basement with their boomer parents, gotta take care of their health now that Obama owns it – wouldn’t want to disappoint him, again!
Wish we had kept the ole farmhouse, it was a hell of a lot bigger than this box I reside in now in Vancouver!
26 year old’s are now considered children. Times have certainly changed over the last few decades. The nanny state and education system have done a great job.
The chart is also interesting in the fact that mortgage interest rates are at a historical low. When this economic house of cards collapses and interest rates as well as inflation rises,there will be a huge spike in people losing their homes. Just lucky we have a lot of overpasses that will accommodate whole families.
No allowance and you are responsible for your own bills goes a long way.. But not far enough for any of them to leave 5 bucks on the kitchen table at the end of the week.. Three quarters done as a man and half done as a parent.. Close enough but not to far.. Its hard to be mean when you love them so.. Go have fun while you can.. Let the world crush them because I surly can not.. Thats why they call me DADDY..
I find it helps if I dont think about it 🙂
Speaking of spoiled and useless spawn
Justin turdo today complained about Tom (look of rage) mulcair pandering to separatists. It was in cbcpravda. No,no mention of him declaring for queerbec two years ago
I call shenanigans.
This graph is misleading. If both left and right scales were equal and went from 0 to 100% the solid line would be a little squiggle hovering around 12% (plus or minus 2%) and the dashed line would be a squiggle hovering around 40% (plus or minus 3%). Hell, the not-included error bars are probably twice the magnitude of the variance.
Not only is this misleading, it is intentionally misleading. Both graphs are dealing with the same units (percentage of people in a given demographic) and there should properly only be a single vertical axis. Not included is the percentage who neither live with parents nor own their own home – a number which can be inferred to be to be around 48%, plus or minus 5%.
This sort of bastardization of math pisses me off in climate science, which is bad enough. I see no reason to allow it even when it appears to score my side of the political spectrum some points. It is a blatant attempt to mislead people.
Somewhat less dramatically
For those under 35 home ownership went up 5% over ten years then back down 5% during the next 10 years. [to one in three]
In the same periods 25-34 year-olds living with parents went down 2% percent then up 4%. [to one in seven]
END TIMES fer shur.
It’s almost as though there’s a trend present. Hmm. Maybe majority in the senate? No, that’s just correlation. Maybe party of president? No, that’s just correlation. Maybe by reporting of how mean conservatives are? Yes, that works better. It’s all the fault of conservatives when the glorious leader’s plans produce their predicted resul… er, I mean, fail.
This is completely unsurprising. We are slowly turning into Europe where people inherit their parents’ homes cause no one (other than the wealthy) can afford property.
You have 20-somethings with: huge student loan debt, dim job prospects, and enormous real estate prices. In Calgary, I don’t even know how the average family can afford to buy a home anymore. At least not a decent one. In September, the average sale price was close to $520,000. How can you afford that unless you make six figures? When we looked recently, the homes in that price range were either cookie-cutter boxes an hour out of downtown or complete teardowns. Buying a decent house in Calgary is now a $700,000 outlay. Not many 29 year olds can afford that.
Just wanted to quickly note how much this saddens me. Although I fully understand the sentiment of people in this thread that youth are far too coddled by the state and parents (they are), I would ask you to temper your consideration with a understanding that things are a bit different now than they used to be in the past.
I, myself, am fully employed (in a lucrative/prestigious financial position), and am a home-owner. Yet I still turn to my parents from time to time for some assistance when a collision of sudden expenses occurs. Part of this may be due to the fact that I insist on saving directly into locked in RRSP/TFSA accounts from my paycheque, as I have little faith in any CPP etc. to exist by the time I am remotely near retirement.
Nonetheless, I am always embarassed to receive support from my parents, as much as they enjoy giving it. I try to comfort myself by saying that once I am a bit further progressed in my career I will return the favor when they are in their retirement, but it does little to assuage my embarassment at not being fully self-reliant.
That being said, I wonder at how othe of my generation would be able to do any better. Stifling unemployment rates, high costs of living, and even higher costs of home ownership are formidable barriers. Although there are definitely a bunch of lotus-eaters and slackers (whom I cannot stomach), I think that you will find that a large chunk of young people, like their parents before them, are eager to work and earn a living.
Unfortunately, elements of government get in the way. Taxation + regulation damages the economy, and the fist to feel the pinch are the younger workforce. Don’t forget that it is we who will bear the burden of the current generation’s failed social, fiscal, and overly environmental policies.
That being said, I hope that increasing trends of telecommuting will allow for workers to detach themselves from urban centers and purchase rural property and lifestyles for themselves. Not only might this be more plausible with respect to cost and an IT industry, but it could also prove beneficial to raise up more conservative, common-sense, voters as they leave the decadence of modern cities behind.
Cheers.
What Ed said, plus:
Neither axis starts at 0, which is also misleading.
As the old saying goes, this graph uses stats like a drunk uses a lamppost – for support, not illumination.
Unfortunately, elements of government get in the way. Taxation + regulation damages the economy, and the fist to feel the pinch are the younger workforce. Don’t forget that it is we who will bear the burden of the current generation’s failed social, fiscal, and overly environmental policies.
Excuses. Don’t spend more than you make, pretty simple.