Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Krystal and Saagar: Majority Of Young Adults Living At Home As Economy Utterly FAILS Them" video.

As much as I tend to disagree with Saager, at least he's got a brain and uses it. He has a legitimate counterpoint even when he's wrong, it's at least an honest disagreement. So many of the MSM outlets have bad faith actors on their platform well past the point where everybody knows that they're bad-faith actors. You don't see much of that on the Hill.
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@AltCTRLF8 It's not just that the Boomers were weak, it was that they were also self-entitled and spoiled. It's hard for me to feel too bad for the ones that wind up eating dog food in old age as they largely had things handed to them and they chose to burn it all down on the hope of becoming millionaires. Gen X has had it kind of tough by comparison, but we didn't get hit as hard as the Millenials or Zoomers have been. Even being one of the youngest of Gen X, college was still about half what it is now and there was at least some hope of succeeding.
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I'm still extremely angry that the Obama administration chose to bailout the homeowners that borrowed more than they could afford and didn't even throw the bankers that wrote the loans in prison. Those that were responsible got screwed and those that behaved irresponsibly didn't. 10 years later and there were still tons of people that could afford to save, but chose not to. There's no way that 2/3 of Americans can't afford to save at least $1k. Yes, some can't, but there's no way that it's more than half. It's a lack of priorities. Even just setting aside a few dollars a week should have been possible. Just an extra $100 a month would do it in less than a year. Even $20 a month would still do it in under 5 years. Because they opted to bail folks out, the price of housing never did correct itself and so the younger people who should have had a crack at buying something were denied that possibility.
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I for one am going to do both. Got to love the ability to vote by mail. But yeah, perhaps we can finally get the 5% needed for federal recognition of the Green Party.
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The government's obligations apparently end at birth.
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@The 6th mass extinction is long overdueYes and that's why vote by mail ought to be a legally mandated option in every jurisdiction, if not the only method of voting for typical voters. The main issue we have relatively low voter turnout here is that the options aren't very appealing, not because we force people to take time off of work and spend it waiting in line.
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I liked him, I would have voted for him if I'd been old enough to vote. He's the last Presidential candidate that seem to have real plans to fix problems.
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Yes and thanks to Obama and his cronies, the housing prices never corrected. As hard as it was, people who borrowed more than they could afford should have been allowed to lose their homes. It's literally the only way that the younger generation could have any real hope of home ownership. But, because folks were bailed out, there was a new floor on the value of property and those that could have afforded the fair market value were not able to buy at the fair market value. They had to pay the inflated prices that saving those homeowners created.
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And they'll get away with it because the Democratic leadership is so useless. They could have held the GOP's feet to the fire when they were wanting to give all that money to the corporations. They could have gotten hazard pay, extension of benefits through the pandemic and uncapped PPP loan money. But, they didn't even try because they've deluded themselves into thinking that the GOP is capable of dealing in good faith.
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@l.w.paradis2108 They were, but even into the '70s there were good opportunities for those willing to do the work. Even after bankrupting his business, my Dad was able to keep the house without declaring bankruptcy and build up a decent sized nest egg via social security and his companies pension plan. My mother didn't even go back to work until years later. Now, they're comfortably retired and have the money to afford a house, a condo and a vacation property. Don't get me wrong, there were plenty of lean years, but this would not be possible today and was only possible back then because they moved to a declining city right before it turned around. 10 to 20 years earlier, it would have been easier. Hence, I have very little sympathy for the Boomers that failed anyways. For the most part, they are to blame for their own failings. They had access to good paying jobs and the ability to save money in a way that most young people don't. Rent wasn't out of hand back then the way it is now and wages were actually trending upwards along with inflation.
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