What was someone thinking?

We will all soon be in the minority, the Millennials will be the largest group. So what generation was responsible for this?? I only had 2 kids.

Maybe the millennials will be the biggest group but I am sure you will find out it was not due to the actual U.S. citizens. The foreigners that came here have as many as they want at our expense. Sorry I can't say any more about this subject on this forum.

Yep. We taxpayers are such kind generous people.

Rich, a whole lot of truth in your comment.
Loren, the Acg.

George, if you look at simple statistics and demographics, Caucasian American citizens are an aging dying portion of the American population. If you happen to be like me, a white Christian male, you're pretty much the bottom of the barrel and even dangerous and radical in the eyes of some people. I'm glad I'm old enough to have seen better days in this country but Oh well what can I say.

God Bless the USA

John T

John T, you got it right.
Richard in NW SC

It's scary , but you are exactly right, John. I hope things turn around, but I have my doubts........

George, I'm going to take a wild guess and say you're a baby boomer like me. If you ever expect to collect a dime of Social Security, you should be tickled pink that the younger generations outnumber us. After all, they're picking up the tab.

At some point the private sector tax payer will no longer be able to bare the burden. I've always thought that I was born 75 years too late. Now I worry more about my kids and grandchildren.

Yep, I'm a boomer and I have 2 Millennials. Nice to know they are paying my SS, about time I get something back from them.

What bugs me a little is I paid into SS. It was called a SS tax. Now I'm paying federal tax on my SS benefits. Isn't that like paying a tax on a tax? Good thing Indiana doesn't tax SS.

Agree with you [b:654c4848f0]John T[/b:654c4848f0].

My situation is even worse; "[i:654c4848f0]a white Christian male[/i:654c4848f0]", conservative, former military officer/veteran, gun owner, and native Texan living in the "hostile" zone of Texas.

Will probably get "poofed", but not in a FEMA camp.

Sounds like pretty soon you will think the police are treating you unfair as the minority. You will then have riot. After that loot. Once you've burned and looted you'll have to go to the next town over just to get stuff to make a ham sandwich!!!!! Lol

Well I suppose all in all it was a good ride while it lasted.

I agree totally.

Who fought and won the Revolutionary War? White males. Who fought and won all the wars through WWII? White males, for the most part.

Who were all the great statesmen who created this great country? White males.

Who were all the great industrialists who built this great country into a dominant global empire? White males.

As a male WASP, it grieves me to see this country being taken over by anyone and his brother who has never done anything except vote for the candidate who promises him the most from the public trough. Maybe it's time for white males to rise to the occasion and take the country back.

Fastest growing race in the United States.

Asian

Goose, you forgot to mention the "Thousands" of "WHITE" people that lost their lives in the war of northern aggression against the south freeing the slaves.
And today the blacks don't even consider who sacrificed their lives to set them free.

They'll pay SS "IF" we can get more decent jobs in this country that pay more than min wage. No good to have an entire generation working fast food level jobs.

Agree with you John!
Hope we get some out of the system that we paid into.

I was in the local Burger King twice the past 2 weeks, and boy. Those workers sure were -not- $15 an hour folk! There was just no initiative, no activity, no nothing. One was interested in his cell phone, two gals were interested in standing off on the side, one fella just looked bewildered.

Of the 4 orders in front of us one day 2 were wrong, as well as my wife's order; next time 2 orders in front out of 3 were wrong, and my wife got mustard and pickles which she had requested none of that, but she just put up with it.

I ordered 2 Hershey pies and waited 7 minutes because the one working person was busy getting the 4 waiting orders put together. The 3 other kids looked bewildered and stood there, could not reach into the cooler and put 2 pies and 2 forks from the counter on a tray and hand it to me.

I don't know the answer, but something does need to change and its not just raising min wage to $15.......

That was very disheartening to experience. Any one hour I can have a bad day myself, but this was not a bad moment, this was just failure by several folk, all the same race as me, that just didnt care and didnt want to care.

My wife spent 6 months training in a new guy from a different dept at her job, he went from maybe a $12 job to a $20 job, but he brought his $12 attitude with him, he's not willing to shoulder more responsibility, follow the pattern of the jobs, learn new things.... He just expects to be getting $20 now, but he's not doing any more for the company than he did at his $12 position, no effort, no responsibility, it is disheartening.

The local Applebee's has put TED on every table, a tablet computer. It shows menu, can order drinks or appetizers on it, pay your bill with a credit/debt card, and let the kids play games on it for $.99 cents. I understood it within 30 seconds. If min wage goes to $15, it is training us customers to use a tablet to order, and they won't need waiters, just a seater, and food delivery and table cleanup folk. I totally understand that, if you double the cost of labor, they can't double the cost of food; they will have to cut half the staff. These tablets are early trainers to figure out what works for people to cut the staff.

We have a nephew that graduated, he's smart, creative, very smart kid puts me to shame. Got out, got a 6 month training job, but it was leading in a direction that wasn't his dream position, so he walked away. He was offered a job more in line with where he wanted to go, but naw, he had 12 different tiny issues as to why no, not for him at this time. Instead he created web sites/hits/oppertunities for people, well that was great for 3 months, but then the hours he kept, the lack of structure in his life, and no real business plan led to using up all his customers and not finding any new ones and whatever he was doing slightly changed with search engines and messed up his investment whatever it was, and so he just kinda been living in his folks basement for 2 years. He just now started a temp job very close to the very first one he got out of college that he walked away from. Its just odd to me, you get an education, and you get a job, and you progress through the rat race and learn some experience and judgement and then, from solid roots, you can do your own thing if you get the experience. Walking out of college, and feeling you are too good to get a job, that just don't make any sense. Doesn't matter if its a $9 job or $25 job, if you feel you are too good to work, what chance do you have of making it?

What chance do any of is have then?

To get better jobs, a person has to want to do better work as well.

I think we are on trouble.

Paul

You're right, John T., guys our age have lived through this country's best years. They won't be repeated. The country our kids and grandkids will know will bear no resemblance to what we've known. The only comfort is that most will not know the difference--they've been so brainwashed and acclimated they'll take whatever comes.

JohnT,
I'm your age and lived longer than most males in my family. I look at each day as a gift from God and glad to be alive.
George

(quoted from post at 22:10:45 05/26/15) George, I'm going to take a wild guess and say you're a baby boomer like me. If you ever expect to collect a dime of Social Security, you should be tickled pink that the younger generations outnumber us. After all, they're picking up the tab.

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Not quite. That's the problem, we have 93 million working age Americans not working, deflated/devalued dollars, more and more demands for services on the taxpayer dollar and fewer people paying for it. It's not sustainable.

When you start with 1 and have a 2nd you just acheived 100% growth.Although I woud say if we wanted to see real improvement in this country that is the segment that holds the most promise.

Go to Dearborn Michigan some time. I never thought I would hear a nnalert call to prayer outside the rat holes I deployed to. The largest nnalert population outside of a nnalert nation located in good ole' Detroit area.

They should do away with state/federal minimum wage. People think they have a right to a wage, but the fact is, it's your privilege. Companies will realize they lose workers if pay is to low, and will have to raise the wage to retain worth while employee's. There's a balance that the system will find, and it will vary by area. On the other side, if you aren't happy with your wage, learn a skill someone is willing to pay for. Unskilled labor should not demand anything near a comfortable life style. It's entry level, until you can learn more and become more valuable. No one should be retiring from mcdonalds. It's where you work when you are either just entering the workplace, want to make spare spending money, or are in a rough patch. Not comfortably raising a family in a suburban home.

At the same time, it shouldn't be so hard to fire people. Bad attitude, no skills, poor work, get out. They keep lowering hte bar and enabling idiots to succeed without having to stop being idiots. It's lowering the value of those of us who know what we're doing.

At the rate it is growing, one may as well look into buying a Qu'ran

At the same time, it shouldn't be so hard to fire people. Bad attitude, no skills,
poor work, get out. They keep lowering the bar and enabling idiots to succeed without
having to stop being idiots. It's lowering the value of those of us who know what
we're doing.

What you said I agree with. What is happening around where I live people are hired
through a temp agency, like work one. There you have no rights. The people you work
for can say we don't need you and it's good-bye. No fuss, no hassle for the employer,
no firing, we just don't need you.

Can't figure out how my post went form generation X to minimum wage, to aliens, but it
got way off topic.

I was replying to Paul up a bit, but there's a saying this country was built on: Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses. At no point did anyone say "Ok, we're full now." It's likely a side effect of being the greatest nation on earth. With all the complaints and problems, it still beats anywhere else by a long shot.

My wife immigrated here, her country had no jobs, the economy was crap, high crime rates. She was working on her masters degree, but then came here to be a nanny. A friend's father left a general in a foreign military to be a laundrymat owner here.

I'm 31 years old, and do not share the views of the vast majority of my generation. Unfortunately I still have quite a bit of time left where I have to deal with them on a daily basis without much choice.

(quoted from post at 19:28:51 05/27/15) I was replying to Paul up a bit, but there's a saying this country was built on: Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses. At no point did anyone say "Ok, we're full now."

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Our doors were rarely completely open. Used to be, at least in living memory, that you had to have a sponsor, a job or skill that was useful, that you had to be disease free, things like that. Now we are full up with unskilled laborers, have disease issues, need skilled people and not unskilled. We've taken an idea and morphed it into something else. Now immigration is about votes for one party and not the other, which means it's about power. The Founders never envisioned that.