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		<title>America's Screwed Generation</title>
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			<title>Salty says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-201164</link>
			<description><![CDATA[America (and the world) has been screwed by International Criminals, who the Republican Party represents, and also many in the Democratic Party. Our great Ron Paul is a racist with fascist leanings. The Greens have been taken over by right wingers. Anyone with money can now manipulate America and the rest of the world via banking, oil, and military schemes. Unions are gone bye bye. Americans are not likely to seriously object, and are too ignorant (on purpose) to know what to object to. The Tea Party is simply the Right Wing of the Republican Party paid for by the Ultra Right Koch Brothers and others. I don't blame anyone but the ultra rich and their followers. I will never support them. I will not fight for their schemes. I will never advise my students to fight for them in any of their Iraq-Afghanista n-Iran schemes. They are world criminals as evil and crazy as any HItler or Stalin, and more greedy. The rich will destroy us and our world, unless we all -- everyone in world -- work to suppress them. And I don't see that happening right now, or just the first little flames of it firing up in the Middle East and other oppressed areas, but not here at the center of the economic world.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Salty</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:45:32 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Selwick says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199896</link>
			<description><![CDATA[And who voted Reagan and all the crooks in, back then? And who thought buying and having even more stuff is great and who overloaded the kids with material things instead of passing down some real values? (not the one we read hear also: I had to walk to school - uphill both ways) I live in a retirement area - plenty of jobs are taken by boomers who do not have to work - or they have to work because they want to maintain a lifestyle they are used to from back then. A lifestyle that is not realistic anymore for younger people. And then they come to Starbucks and ask for Senior citizen discount. I agree it's the corporations and banks that got us in the hole. Nevertheless, I consider the boomers as the Generation Me.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Selwick</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:36:32 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>thomachuck says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199862</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There is a great discussion going here. There is also another overarching issue: the clear underperformanc e of the United States in matters like unemployment, education, job training, health care and social issues. The Republicans keep talking about the "failed Socialist states of Old Europe" but most of the industrialized rich European countries are way ahead of us in these areas. Check out Harold Myerson's good article in The Washington Post from this week (July 16-20); haven't got it at my fingertips. These should be our priority issues, not the "unentitled-nes s" of the president to be in the job he's in or how many hundreds of millions of dollars Romney is worth. If there were true bi-partisan WORK doing on in Congress, we would be in a lot less trouble than we are.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>thomachuck</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:04:14 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Hey There says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199838</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Like musical chairs where chairs are being removed one at a time until there is only one chair left with one winner,this is what's happening to jobs. First there was automation,then jobs were sent overseas, then Nafta, then eliminating public sector jobs,importing more goods, and the losers are the ones who couldn't snag a chair shall be called workers and the winner shall be called the Super Rich.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Hey There</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:54:40 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Hey There says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[GOOD ONE.I AGREE WITH YOU!********** A lot of older people lost their homes while many have to take out a reverse mortgage.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Hey There</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:24:28 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Capn Canard says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199804</link>
			<description><![CDATA[If possible, would you please post any links that may be helpful, thanks.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Capn Canard</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:09:41 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Capn Canard says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199803</link>
			<description><![CDATA[John, read Home of the Brave and would like to see such come to fruition, I was wondering if you ever heard of Fleming Funch? Here is a web link: http://www.newciv.org/ncn/moneyteam.html All this stuff is from about 1995. If you have any other info, please share...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Capn Canard</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:07:50 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Capn Canard says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199798</link>
			<description><![CDATA[John Locke, I had the same reaction to that sentence. The government failed us and our children. I have been complaining about the reckless spending on DoD since the early 1980's and yet now we have a Wealthy man(Mitt Romney) promising us austerity and at the same time he would increase defense spending! If people don't wake up and take action, it can only get far worse.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Capn Canard</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:56:48 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Virginia says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199723</link>
			<description><![CDATA[We all recognize there is a problem - but we want to lob it all on the back of a presidential position to correct. While that leadership quality, if found, is important - we need to realize that the problems are much more locally grown. If you are watching the news you are seeing drug cartel money laundering in the billion$ through Chase, BofA, Wells Fargo, etc. That money comes from our kids and community members buying and selling drugs - much of which are radically mind altering. Believe it or not even the teachers make buys from the students. This depression isn't just financial - it's drug related as well in order to dumb down a society that won't rise up against the money lords. It is a very serious problem. Drugs are on Wall Street, in the corporate sector, within our government and political offices, in the schools and easily accessible on the street. If this generation is screwed - it stems from a drug induced haze at all levels that mere fines levied on banks for money laundering won't stop. We need to wise up and start helping our communities clean up. It's hard to pay law enforcement when the municipal trust funds have been gambled away on Wall Street who does the laundry for the drug cartels - see the connection?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Virginia</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:35:31 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Virginia says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199693</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I'm not blaming the children. I'm blaming the government for allowing the drug cartel aka bankster money laundering that enables these suppliers to infect our schools and communities. They have depressed the economy, dumbed down the media and created a society with very little ambition. Our political leaders are not setting the example we need for a stronger America. Letting gangsters slide and taking their bribes with no punishment sends a very bad message. We need to organize locally and support each other to get out of this drug and financially induced depression. Recognizing it is the first step. Calling the community together is next. Eliminating the blood sucking, lazy, bribe taking politicians is essential (locally, state and federal).]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Virginia</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:51:25 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Billy Bob says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199664</link>
			<description><![CDATA[You can choose your strategy. I'll choose mine.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Billy Bob</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 07:46:29 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Glen says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199628</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Citizens can count locally, and in a particular territory, but they have no control within the federal government or corporations. It isn't a matter of giving up, it is a matter of being realistic in a country of way over 300 million people and in which there are very serious issues that citizens did not cause. Candidates, as we have all witnessed, are chosen heads, not decided on by citizens. Even candidates for congress are not without the knowledge of the actual workings of the government. Personally, I, and a random number of folks in this area, are preparing for the future while working with the community. During weather related events in which many lost electricity for a week or two, or similar collapse, hundreds of people panicked, many became borderline nuts. That is what happens when folks are not prepared for even a weather event. A depression and thousands of lost jobs makes it much worse, and the federal government cannot and will not take care of so many people, no matter who leads. Think local.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 03:59:55 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>edwin_ says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199572</link>
			<description><![CDATA[yes John, one problem is the corporate welfare given to the banks and hi tech firms is the H1b visas that allow them to hire overseas workes to come here & take american jobs. There are over one million of them . This keeps salaries down & prvents grads from finding jobs]]></description>
			<dc:creator>edwin_</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:48:09 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>edwin_ says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199567</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Ya ever think that maybe you need to pay more than $22???]]></description>
			<dc:creator>edwin_</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:13:06 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Billy Bob says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199553</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I don't honestly know a time when most people rented in this country. Do you have pre-20th Century statistics that most people did?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Billy Bob</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:04:15 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Billy Bob says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199552</link>
			<description><![CDATA[My only suggestion is for the only chance we have, which is to not give up and vote anyway. If your view is so glum that it doesn't matter what citizens do it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. I plan to vote for the best viable candidates that are offered. I plan to vote next time and the time after that as well. I also plan to get involved even more during the next primary season to do my part in making sure that the Democratic candidate isn't another repug lite. That's all I CAN do, but I don't plan on giving up.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Billy Bob</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:00:36 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Billy Bob says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199551</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This really isn't about a generation gap, as much as people want to lay the blame on each other, rather than where it actually belongs. People really haven't changed. Our situations have. But, if you want to blame your children and grand children, go right ahead. It's not going to fix anything, but it might make you feel self righteous.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Billy Bob</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:57:16 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Bodiotoo says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199514</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Let our government throw the bankers all for a loop and just have them write off all first/primary residences as "PAID IN FULL"...that would change soime dynamics.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bodiotoo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:16:44 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Bodiotoo says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199511</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Why the thumbs down...some right wing nuts in denial. Reagan deserves the credit for screwing the masses.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bodiotoo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:55:45 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>politicaleconomist says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199488</link>
			<description><![CDATA["It was ... the government that screwed the people by aiding corporations" Good comment but you got the causation reversed. The government is not independent of corporations or more generally of the "1%"! It is right now simply an arm of the 1% and as you have implied there is little difference between TweedledeeDem and TweedeldeeRep.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>politicaleconomist</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:43:54 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>mcav says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199401</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I completely agree with your assessment Mr. Kotkin. Millennials were ill-advised to take out student loans and even to go to college if they were not academically prepared. Their grandparents are more sloppy and less grateful than they realize for living in a clean environment without the threat of global warming overshadowing their daily life. Acquisition became their mantra and a sense of entitlement developed on both sides of the political aisle. Unfortunately, the greedy out-number the ethical among us. I encourage you to breathe new life into a stale and broken system and don't rely on institutions and rhetoric: Ethics and nobility have left the room. It's not 1955 any more and Glenn Miller is dead. It's your turn now. I am confident you can make it better.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>mcav</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 07:51:28 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>coberly says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199379</link>
			<description><![CDATA[that one tenth of one percent per year amounts to forty cents per week each year. strictly speaking it is not "needed." but it would stop the Congress from other fixes... raising the retirement age, means testing, cutting benefits... that would absolutely destroy Social Security. you will get that payroll tax increase back when you need it most. with interest. but you need to DO something. maybe look up coberly, social security, angrybear blog.. for a start.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>coberly</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:51:18 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>coberly says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199376</link>
			<description><![CDATA[just to try to get the message out: The current article by Kotkin is part of a billion dollar plan to destroy Social Security, in part by creating "generational warfare." Don't let them get away with it. You can have Social Security forever. Even "doing nothing" would not hurt Social Security. You might be wiser to raise your own tax one tenth of one percent per year to guarantee you will be able to retire at the same age with the same benefits as current. This is actually a big boost in benefits... higher real value and longer life expectancy. But if you don't force the Congress to listen, they will "fix" SS in a way that kills it so it won't work as retirement insurance for you. most of you are not fooled, but even talking about "being screwed" instead of fighting to stop THEM from screwing you is giving them all the victory they need.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>coberly</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:46:43 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>The Saint says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199374</link>
			<description><![CDATA[For most 20-25 year olds, it's not the boomers--at least not us in our mid to late 60s--that are to blame. It's the 80s and 90s crowd especially the Reagan, "Wall Street" crowd.They were not the working blue collar crowd that were screwed in the 80s. Elders and early boomers should be working with the young to change this greedy capitalist system--look at Krugman's article.The young and the old should unite in an "outsider" critique before more of the young are sucked into this machine. Check your facts.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>The Saint</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:44:15 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>inpectore says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199340</link>
			<description><![CDATA[How many of you hav read Paul Krugman's latest book, End This Depression Now? Raise your hands.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>inpectore</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 04:37:38 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Glen says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199335</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thanks, Anarchist23. I'll read it.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 03:50:03 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Glen says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199334</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What is your suggestion for improvement or to correct the government or economy? How about the social manipulation that the government and the media have dumped on those who followed the rules and now are realizing no fruits for their labors? I understood the point and have lived long enough to understand how the country bounced into this situation. The power of corporations and governments are rather much beyond us. We were warned, but very few listened. Citizens do not determine "national values".]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 03:47:40 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Virginia says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199330</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Billy Bob - Do you think it was easy for women in the 60's to find jobs other than teachers, nurses or secretaries? You make your way in this world. Stop thinking that you or anybody else are owed a job. Education doesn't give you a right to employment. Women of the 60's had to prove they could be sales people, editors, mechanics and that they had a brain and desire beyond Susie homemaker (not that there is anything wrong with that too). This generation (that is so abused - boo hoo) has been confronted with drugs - more prevalent than what we faced 50 years ago...more like the heroin crazed days of the 1920s and 30s with cocaine, acid and pot. People are looking to take the "edge off of the depression" caused by a laissez faire government with it's hand caught in the till. What a great example it's setting. Bottom-line stop sugar coating life and tell this generation to get creative and make a job - not just sit on their ass and wait for one.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Virginia</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 03:14:32 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>rumisonqo says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199284</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I agree on most levels but also think it is sad that we decide our entire life course in terms of where the jobs are, as if that is the only point of all our education. That is what makes us nothing more than corporate cogs. What universities should step up and do better is in teaching us how to forge our own path and not expect some company or firm to give us a living when we graduate.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>rumisonqo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:07:15 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Innocent Victim says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199281</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Joel Kotkin is selling generational warfare, when the culprits are not defined by age but by economic and social class. The corruption and fraud that has brought the US to its current state are from the careerism and irresponsibilit y of our politicians and the greed of the class of wealth that they serve. The baby boomers, as an age group, did not commit financial fraud. That was done by the executives of the major banks that freed to do whateve r they pleased by the repeal of Glass-Steagall and the de-regulation financial derivatives that Bill Clinton achieved as President. Combined with the non-feasances of those to whom the remaining financial was entrusted, Alan Greenspan, Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke, et al., the foxes were assured that the hen-house was unguarded. Joel Kotkin is blaming the older generation, which has been victimized with the younger, for the moral depravity of our congresses and presidents since and including Bill Clinton.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Innocent Victim</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:03:03 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>rumisonqo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I am saying that tying up all our resources and our energy in this ideal of homeownership is misguided. The post WWII suburban housing boom was an experiment that worked for the medium term, and for those who happened to be in the ideal position to take advantage. Homeownership seems to be loosing its viability as a standard for younger people now. I`m just saying that Gen X and millenials shouldn`t feel bad for not attaining what was an exception and something just workable for the baby boomers generation because they were lucky.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>rumisonqo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:55:33 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Anarchist 23 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A great book to read is Marty Jezer's 'The Dark Ages Life In the United States 1945-1960' It details how corporations took over much of the private and public space-very informative and certainly documents how we got here! It was published in '82. Lots of us have long looked on what has been going on with great dismay but so few ever saw it. Certainly not those in power!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Anarchist 23</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:14:17 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Billy Bob says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Your parents also toughed out the Depression. The real one. The one with a 25% unemployment rate and serious talk of a violent revolution in the air. Those facts are lost in the mists of time because your parent's generation are either dead or too old to argue about it any more. Believe me. I know them well, and they worked their asses off for everything they earned. They also didn't destroy Social Security. They fought for it while the boomer generation was buying into the privatization myth. The only thing any generation is ultimately responsible for in all of this is EVERY generation since WWII for not fighting to keep the New Deal intact and for not fighting to keep our unions, and for not fighting all the cuts to public funding for all of the things that actually dragged us out of the last depression. And don't give me that bullshit that WWII ended the Depression. If it did, why was the economy so strong in the '50s and '60s?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Billy Bob</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:46:05 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Billy Bob says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[WELL SAID.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Billy Bob</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:38:07 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Billy Bob says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199240</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Would you prefer us to be a society of renters?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Billy Bob</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:36:40 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Billy Bob says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199239</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Spending more on the military than all the other countries on Earth combined is ITSELF a waste. This has nothing to do with "defense". It's about world domination for the fossil fuel industry and having the American tax payers foot the bill.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Billy Bob</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:35:34 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Billy Bob says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I think you're missing the point. This isn't an article about people unwilling to work. It's about people who's job skills are not being used because our economy has undervalued a college education and is becoming increasingly like a 3rd world economy. OF COURSE there are still some jobs available. You can still pick fruit! That's not the point. In the race to the bottom with the 3rd world, we should be getting off the track and re-assessing our national values. Instead we're bickering over whether someone who has a masters degree should have become a plumber.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Billy Bob</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:29:11 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>granny6 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[What "entitlement"? the Social Security I paid into? Medicare? I also had an IRA and a 401K. I paid my taxes every year, did not give my kids what ever they wanted. My car is old enough to vote. I also learned not to get an education with the thought of making big bucks. Do what your are good at. We all have talents. Sometime when you are with a group ask what the others what their talents are and what are their hobbies. You will be amazed at how talented they are as a group. Now if we can only translate into a nation like our forefathers did............ ......]]></description>
			<dc:creator>granny6</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:54:10 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Glen says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Better than nothing in a struggling economy, Billy. But not all are without a union. This reminds me of the time I needed a job and only one was available. Folks would tell me not to take it because it didn't pay enough. There were no other jobs. None. So - do you take the low paying job or continue with nothing, with food and rent running very very low. Gotta be realistic about what's available, regardless of education or skill level.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:22:20 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>anys4usa says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Okay, I want to thank you for bringing up the subject of inter-generatio nal challenges and differences, which has always interested me. As an x-er, I have always felt screwed by the boomer generation. After-all, when they lost their retirements between 2001- and 2008 they kept working, which kept me from getting a full time job in education, due to a saturated job market and high rate of cronyism in my state. My generation wasn't coddled by our parents, but are rather "free range" as I like to call it. We could actually go outside to play on the crappy playgrounds or bike all day, and no one cared. We always returned for meals. You guys were spoiled, sorry. I myself have finally gotten a good paying job, and have paid my dues along the way--even becoming furloughed when the depression hit hard in 2009. Now at 43 I have hit my earning years, just before my kids enter college, themselves. When I complained years ago about the lack of jobs, I was told to wait and hang in there, and that's what I'll tell you too. Of course by the time you get yours, you'll be competing with x-er kids. Don't worry, employers like you better (except for the whole 'entitlement' bit.) Y'all have to drop it and drop it right quick!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>anys4usa</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:59:08 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>oakjoan says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'm sure that many have posted this same thought, but I'll add my 2 cents anyway. When I went to UCLA, the tuition was something like $14 a semester. How did the tuitions at state schools and universities get so high (even adjusting for inflation since the mid 60's when I was in school). Have the funds diminished so much? It's truly horrifying.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>oakjoan</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:13:52 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>John Locke says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ABen: I appreciate your comment, however I would have had more respect for Clinton had he vetoed the Bill! That would have shown where he stood, But he signed it didn't he!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>John Locke</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:40:27 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Billy Bob says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Non-union dime-a-dozen labor that can easily be replaced by an increasingly cheaper labor force will ALWAYS be in demand.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Billy Bob</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:56:46 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Glen says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Welding is just an example of the type of jobs and careers young people could get into, but if you are going to be picky, welding has many uses outside construction. Then there are LPNs, private janitorial services, carpentry (also used outside general construction), plumbing, paramedics, paralegals, computer techs, and so on. The list is long when it comes to skills and labor requiring no college. A great many good secretaries have done nicely for themselves. America has not lost a demand for this type of labor. Those skills have merely been looked down upon by those same college educated folks who now cannot get a job themselves.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:22:03 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Ken Carman says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Absolutely. That's what Roosevelt did.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ken Carman</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:36:10 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Ken Carman says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Good point. Classic Rethug trick. Get the have nots and the screwed fighting, making accusations, then continue to stick in the shiv.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ken Carman</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:35:11 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Bodiotoo says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199075</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Here Here, Reagan may be created with bringing down communism and capitalism]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bodiotoo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:29:55 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Bodiotoo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Rate went up to 20% in my area, vredit cards were well over 22%...boomers my age that have had kids...I see two primary results...paren ts involved enough to teach the kids about ethics and hard work and helped thier kids through school...and the neglected kids who never gave a damn about school. learning or anything but themselves.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bodiotoo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:29:00 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Bodiotoo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[They have not joined them because THERE HAS NOT BEEN A "kent state" MOMENT YET!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bodiotoo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:26:17 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Bodiotoo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I find that most public bureaucrats treat those at the counter rather shabbily...and if they worked for me they would have been fired long ago. Not an incident... but 25 years of dealing with bureaucrats living on the lard of the government hand outs and guareentees. Shuffling mostly useless paper and making up rules, fees and regulations that are not codified until a dumbass council or government body rubber stamps without thought or serious public comment (have you attended a public "hearing" where the matter has been pre-decided?).]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bodiotoo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:24:53 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>epmorgan says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Any generational "explanation" of where we are today (or, for that matter, what happened in the 60s) is way off the mark and is basically a distraction from dealing with the forces that have produced the economy (and society) we now live with. It's actually an old, old pattern going back to the way mass media dealt with 60s movements from around 1964 up to the present. I document this in my book "What Really Happened to the 1960s: How Mass Media Cultured Failed [and fails] American Democracy" (U.Press of Kansas, 2011) if some are interested.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>epmorgan</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:21:26 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Bodiotoo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Way too many boomers in "retirement" supplimenting thier Soc Sec packing bags like I did when I was a poor teenager.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bodiotoo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:20:52 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Bodiotoo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Because we are not a wilderness any more where we can just build a cabin and farm...and survive if abble.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bodiotoo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:20:04 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Bodiotoo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Could not agree more. The military waste is unreal. It is not about DEFENSE... money spent on all the wrong causes.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bodiotoo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:18:51 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Bodiotoo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I do not agree with the premise. The coddled generation. Have every toy and gadget under the sun but do not know how to dig a hole, fit a pipe, hammer a nail...thumbs are good texting and that is about it. Sorry but I had to work through High School. ten years od factory rat, builders helper etc before college. I didn't have 4K in assets when I was 35...I was working for myself figuring out how to...with no family or parental aid to fall back on. I do not think I am particulary gifted, but I have always gotten back up, dusted myself and started again. If governemnt has to srep in...lets try limiting the jobs and the wages to encourage people to think and do for themselves...he lp yes, life time rides no way!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bodiotoo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:16:48 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>ABen says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Well said Cliff!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>ABen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:14:18 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>ABen says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Locke; I would remind you that Phil Gramm, Jim Leach, and Tom Bliley were all Republicans. Yes, Clinton signed the bill, to his everlasting shame, but please give credit where credit is due. Republicans had been trying to repeal Glass-Steagall since Reagans first term and finally were able to gut the most important provisions in '99.' All but one or two Senate Dems voted against the original bill, and one senator gave an impassioned speech about the potential damage this act would cause to our banking industry and economy . Don't kid yourself that this wasn't a wholly Repub bill that was signed in '99' by a politically wounded Bill Clinton.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>ABen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:12:32 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>granny6 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I was a pre-WarII baby. What my parents taught us was to work hard, give your employer a days work for a days wages. Don't think you can have it all at once. They were married 30 years before they bought a new couch. There was always someone who had furniture for sale. My bedroom set, which I still have, is solid mahogany. It was a barter my father made for a job he did for someone. I am still cooking in the pots and pans I bought 50 years ago. Second lesson buy quality items. Especially shoes, you only are issued one pair of feet. Be as self sufficient as possible I learned to garden as a small child. respect your elders even if you don't agree with them. Never stop learning. Most people thought my father was a college grad when in fact he left school at 16. He subscribed to National Geographic, Scientific American, Consumers Report, Mechanics illustrated, and others. We all learned to read them too. We had to go to church even though he didn't. " How else can you make an intelligent decision about something if you don't know about it's principles. He was right. The Christian religion has some very good principle, too bad people don't follow them. They twist them to suit themselves. Hurrah for the "Nuns on the Bus" for reminding us. I will never be rich, have had a lot of struggles in my live but I also was given a basis to live by. Most of all I can live with myself.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>granny6</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:42:14 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Glen says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199035</link>
			<description><![CDATA[RLF, who is it that instilled that attitude in this generation? They were not born with a sense of gimme and technology. The generation prior to the so-called boomers, or at least the leaders, began the movement toward forcing college and careers on the young. Once the push began to best the rest of the world, citizens took on that attitude and passed it along to the kids. When technology and a job motivated education is instilled in pre-schoolers, the result is that attitude you describe. The rest, unable to afford an education or all that technology, are left with resentment and disappointment that they are not "acceptable" in U.S. society. The lucky ones have parents that raise them with realistic expectations.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:16:46 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Hobbes says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-199030</link>
			<description><![CDATA[You state the public debt "will have to pay it off in at least three ways: through higher taxes, less infrastructure and social spending, and, fatefully, the prospect of painfully slow growth for the foreseeable future." I'm glad you hedged your prediction by saying "at least three ways," because the number one way (conspicuously absent) is to cut military spending by 20, 30 or even 40 percent. We have plenty of money in this country. We're spending it on the wrong damn things.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Hobbes</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 07:51:39 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>John Steinsvold says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As I envision a way of of life without money, we will gain economic freedom in addition to and without infringement on our present freedoms. The ONLY common denominator between a way of life without money and socialism/commu nism/Marxism is economic equality which, in my opinion, we desperately need here in the USA. Economic equality will eliminate poverty. It will also eliminate materialism which warps our sense of value and corrupts our system. It will also reduce crime dramatically. Otherwise, our government will remain the same. The Democrats will still do battle with the Republicans. Our free enterprise system will still exist as it does today. Perhaps for the first time in history, we, as a nation and as a people, have the ability to conduct our internal economic affairs without the need to use money. We have the necessary democratic government, we have the abundant resources, we have the educational facilities and also the technical knowledge to do so. In light of what is happening in our economy today, should we not, at least, explore this possibility? John Stensvold "The free market is indeed free. Its free of responsibility and accountability. Owners are free to ignore the future, free to act in ways that generate short term gains for themselves and push long term costs onto other people, the environment and the future." -Lloyd Ireland]]></description>
			<dc:creator>John Steinsvold</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 07:30:30 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>fredboy says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Yep. It's over. American went from "we" to "me". And that's all she wrote. The nation's soul has been hollowed. Everyone is self focused, all tough guys and girls, everyone hating everyone else. And no hope for improvement. No one believes anymore. Thus, no one gives a shit. Will make a hilarious movie one day.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>fredboy</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 07:15:43 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>rumisonqo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[To those of you who are claiming the boomers also had it bad, remember that mortgages are not some kind of god given right just because we were born American. There is nothing natural about them. Mortgages have really only existed as we know them post WWII (and even then they were mostly for white men). Why is house in the suburbs our norm when that was really only a reality for one or two generations in the history of humanity, at most? https://sedonaweb.com/attach/schools/NCBEfaculty/attach/chapter-297.pdf]]></description>
			<dc:creator>rumisonqo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 07:14:45 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Billy Bob says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Let's hope Paul didn't predict his own presidency.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Billy Bob</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 07:11:30 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>mdhome says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[For every Romoney, Adleson, Kochs there are several thousand homeless living out of dumpsters and not all are young. Many of the "boomer" generation are also getting screwed by the mega-wealthy.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>mdhome</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 07:05:54 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>cristpd says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Joel Kotkin is correct on almost every measure in this well written article. The only point on which I would differ is hi characterizatio n of "...huge public-employee pensions now driving many states and cities - most recently Stockton, Calif. - toward the netherworld of bankruptcy.." Public employees in some European countries do have generous, though not huge pensions. US public employees, by comparison, are treated rather shabbily. Still, most public employee pensions have been adequate to keep retired workers comfortably in the middle class. But Kotkin has bought into the notion that pensioners are to be blamed for having it a little better than the rest of us.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>cristpd</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 06:51:33 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>panhead49 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Mr. Kotkin - I sure hope you have health insurance, perhaps you can get your severe analcephalic impaction cleared up. Hubby and I are what you refer to as 'boomers' and are scared feckless everytime our 401k statement shows up. No pension checks around here (but a helluva lot of crossed fingers). The sons are doing pretty darn good, been working, been saving as much as possible and been going to school to get useful degrees (in lieu of degrees in Underwater Navel Gazing/Basket Weaving). The glut of law degrees coming down the pipeline has been evident for at least a decade. Most will never have a successful private practice, some will get government gigs and most will find out that since the law changes annually (if not more frequently) and after a spell what they learned will become moot. Unlike their student loan debt.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>panhead49</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 06:46:41 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>mrbadexample says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Put the blame for this mess where it belongs--the repubs who consistently voted for the Bush Tax cuts and the unfunded Medicare prescription plan. Apparently, none of them had a desk calendar for figuring out when the Boomers were going to stop being taxpayers and start being SS and Medicare recipients. We will *never* have another generation as big or as prosperous, and all the long-term projects we coulda/shoulda undertaken in the Aughts (energy conversion to solar, ramping down a cold-war sized Pentagon, reform of the way we pay for healthcare) were thrown under the bus for tax cuts for the wealthy and a few Trillion-dollar wars. The Occupy struggle should be across multiple generations--a nation of Walmart greeters and bartenders is not going to be able to support the Boomers or keep carrier groups and airborne divisions on standby so the oil keeps pumping in Saudi Arabia. I understand why the kids took over Zuccotti Park. I don't understand why their parents didn't join them.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>mrbadexample</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 06:27:05 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>coberly says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I hope you are aware that this is propaganda created by the people who are trying to destroy Social Security by creating a "war between the generations." In the first place, it's stupid to blame your "parents." The forces that have created the current situation were not created by ordinary people. So look for the folks who actually have some effect on "the economy." The politicians and central bankers would be a good place to start. In the second and most important place, try to remember that Social Security it you paying for your own eventual retirement, NOT you paying for some greedy geezers retirement. The old folks already paid for their retirements. And if you are too dumb to understand that part, then you are probably too dumb to save yourself from the politicians of both parties who are indeed creating bad times ahead. But don't feel too sorry for yourself. Your parents worked hard to create a better, easier, world for you than they found for themselves. Do you think you are having a harder time than the young..now old...peope who faced the real Great Depression and World War 2, and the "peacetime" draft, and Vietnam, and the "Reagan recession"? Times are hard, but no harder than for past generations. Your parents are not to blame. But if you let yourselves be fooled by "generational war" times are going to get a lot harder.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>coberly</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 06:06:51 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>ritaague says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Oh yeah, it's a terrible, evil mess we're passing onto our kids, grandkids, and future generations. That's why I, an old 'Grandmothers for Peace', does and says all I do and say (a.k.a. raises Irish hell re. all the greed and power addiction that has so taken us and the world over, leaving anything goodly/Godly far behind - a thing of the past). Lots and lots we gotta do to... UNDO THE EVIL COUP !]]></description>
			<dc:creator>ritaague</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:28:22 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>GreenBee says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As a Boomer and I can tell you all is not rosy for me and many of my Boomer friends. The wealth gap is affecting my generation very significantly, and a generalization that an entire generation "never had it so good' hides this reality. I graduated from college in 1973 the housing market was experiencing the greatest bubble of inflation we've ever seen AND the mortgage interest rates were 11, 12, and 13%. I also had a college debt to pay off then too. Some boomers with money made a killing in money markets funds during this time, but those of us from working class backgrounds had college debts and had to take on our first home mortgages with those astronomical interest rates. Many of us divorced due to the culture of free sex(extra marital) and drug habits that started in the 60's and found ourselves as single parents, with no equity and insecure jobs. The only Boomers I know that are very secure had parents who helped them with trust funds, business start-ups, college tuition payments, inheritances, or were MBAs or MDs. Those of us who chose helping professions, in social services, education or small business of our own are really struggling. Many of us do not even have health insurance and those that do are now having major health costs and are finding that their out of pocket costs are enormous. My parents generation had free college(GI bIll) and jobs that lasted 30 years and mortgage rates of 4%]]></description>
			<dc:creator>GreenBee</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:27:31 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>John Locke says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[LonnyEachus You are blaming an entire generation for the irresponsible acts of only a few at the top...You can't blame the people for the acts of 1% of them!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>John Locke</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:24:23 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>John Locke says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA["Today's youth, both here and abroad, have been screwed by their parents' fiscal profligacy and economic mismanagement" I disagree completely with this statement. It was not the Baby Boomers but the government that screwed the people by aiding corporations to rip off the Nation over political and financial greed! The public had NO responsibility for corporate outsourcing, and environmental waste or the extensive bank fraud that has gone on and has been allowed for multiple generations, or the irresponsible acts of Clinton in deregulating the Banks!!! To Blame the people who have no control over government irresponsibliit y is like blaming the victom for being robbed!!!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>John Locke</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:22:44 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>gleeindc says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Are things difficult for younger Americans? Yes. Are things difficult for boomers who are retired or nearing retirement and have seen their retirement funds plummet? Yes. Let's not make it a generational war when the problem is class, not age.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>gleeindc</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:55:52 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Glen says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Don't be too quick to blame all Boomers. (Actually I hate generational labels. Originally, the Baby Boomer generation began during WWII, but then the years were changed.) Most so-called boomers are hardworking, had to go to Vietnam, protested Vietnam and much else, lost their jobs/careers so therefore lost their retirement, and so on. The corruption in the U.S. began a long time ago, including economic corruption. It was inevitable that many were going to pay for the sins of past generations.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:54:53 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>video4315 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Blaming everyone in the Boomer generation is certainly an overgeneralizat ion. Just as there were are many greedy people in this generation (Abramoff, Boesky, Milken, Lay, Dimon, Diamond, Maddoff, and on and on), there were and are people whose ideals and good will from the sixties and seventies are yet intact. Those who served in the Peace Corps have inspired many thousands with whom they have come in contact. Many Boomers find themselves in debt because of tuition payments for their children. Many of us as Boomers would gladly settle for less in our lives if it would get our children and our country back on track. We were brought up to believe the stories that ended in "...and they lived happily ever after," but the sad truth is that life has never been this way. The TV commercials with the smiling newly-retired couples enjoying the good life betray the realities which most will face. The point is that we label our generations and that labeling is divisive. We are all in this together and must work together to find our way through it. The future is not going to be the same as in the past. The promises of technologies and healthcare breakthroughs will be countered by exploding populations, climate change, and more. May all of us appreciate what others have to offer.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>video4315</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:49:10 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Billy Bob says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[There you go again with the welding panacea. Luckily fields like welding are immune to layoffs, right? NOTE: SARCASM Welders and electricians not only occupy a field not everyone can do (a talent), but are in a field that is usually in a "boon" or "bust" mentality like the construction industry. In this economy, I'd tell a welder to stay in school and get more education in an unrelated field. America has lost much of its demand for this kind of skilled labor outside your local area, because most of our country is now in a stagnant bust.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Billy Bob</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:45:06 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>economagic says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It IS a depression, it IS the banksters (and some others), and it's NOT "the boomers," many of whom have been fighting the banksters and the military-indust rial complex (which Eisenhower himself facilitated) since before the first of us came of age nearly 50 years ago. With all due respect to Mr. Steinsvold, his fantasy is just that--the Marxian workers' paradise without the revolution. For an example of the way the alternative to capitalism is actually being created from the ground up, read Gar Alperovitz's latest article ("A New Era of Worker Ownership?"), posted today on RSN. Then google his name, also "new economics," and check out slowmoney.org. There is a grain of truth in the comments of the "conservative analysts" quoted above, including those of Tyler Cowen--but not much. Unmet needs abound, yet we are swimming in underutilized resources. The challenge is to get off our butts and learn to create not just jobs but livelihoods and lives for ourselves and others, before one of the many crises magnifies our needs beyond our ability to meet them.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>economagic</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:29:54 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>RLF says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You can blame this college generation for being spoiled...havin g to go to the expensive school because it has a better football team or exercise facility...thei r demands for more and more technology toys to do dumb ass stuff on fartbook...etc. , etc. When ever you turn you find this generation feeling like their self esteem is a good enough reason to get what ever they want when they suck at everything but creating computer games. Time for this generation to grow up and head down to their local Occupy Demonstration.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>RLF</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:07:39 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>turtleislander says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This article is divide and conquer and to believe it only benefits the very very few, not necessarily born between 1945 and 1965 who brought this economic disaster upon us. I was born in 1951 and have lost half a lifetime's savings, and my career to this economic mess. The decline began when the people in charge back in the Reagan era began dismantling US prosperity.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>turtleislander</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:04:28 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>lark3650 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Alfred Lawson, founder of the Direct Credits Society back in 1931, offered an alternative to capitalism.... capitalism with improved finance. Captialism can be made to work but not until interest on money is abolished. Money is supposed to be a medium of exchange for the convenience of everybody. "Interest is the thief of everybody. It robs the government, it robs the merchants, and it robs workmen. It robs everybody except a few financiers who control the money, and by its control, gain the power to stifle governments, industry, trade and employment." Unless interest is abolished, nothing else counts. "There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." - Henry David Thoreau]]></description>
			<dc:creator>lark3650</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 03:51:49 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>davidhp says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The enemy is unbridled free market capitalism, trying to blame the boomers for this is recession is bs, many boomers are strugglng try to make it on social security and savings that have been lost due to the greed of free market capitalist manipulating the investiments.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>davidhp</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 03:48:53 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Susan1989 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Although the is merit to much of what is said here, I am asking myself why I encounter so many seemingly rude and over-entitled young people in the work force. I am over 65, have a masters degree, and managed a large fundraising department. I avoided hiring young people because they had poor writing and people skills and were unwilling to work as hard as their 50 and over counterparts. Who ever said a college education guaranteed starting at the top?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Susan1989</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 03:09:39 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>abdullahiedward says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sounds awfully familiar to what Gaddafi put together in Libya, which, contrary to common public opinion, was working quite well before the US decided to eliminate him and his idea of social justice.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>abdullahiedward</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 02:50:48 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>OldLady says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-198965</link>
			<description><![CDATA[By pitting generations against each other this article feeds into the Republican attempts to dismantle Social Security and end public sector pensions. Middle class millennials should recall that many of their parents' expenditures were for them--did you live in a nice house/neighborh ood? have a room of your own? go to a good school? take expensive vacations? receive a car as a gift? have excellent health car? braces? cosmetic surgery? Boomers also spend considerable amounts on their children's college expenses. Also, millennials should remember that if parents do not have enough savings to last through retirement, thay will become an additional burden on you--and $170,000 is NOT enough. Others have pointed out the corruption of our political system that has transferred wealth from the poor and middle class to the very wealthy. All young people need to learn what's happened and help turn the country around, rather than buy into an ageist argument that will come back to bite them.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>OldLady</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:31:15 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>PaineRad says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-198964</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The basic premise of this article is pure, unadulterated BS. The problem is not generational. It is the problem of power, concentrated wealth and propaganda. All those boomers are holding onto their jobs because their salaries (productivity gains) were stolen beginning about 1973. In other words they, too, are victims of the 0.01%, just as their kids and grandkids are. If the boomers are responsible for anything, it is being human in the face of concerted campaigns by Madison Avenue and the PR flacks who have all seduced and confused the American public, pretty much as they have done across the globe. Actually the problem goes back to the 30s and 40s when trying to reform the economic order, officials did nothing to change corporate governance and left in place incestuous boards of directors. You can also point directly at a few specific acts that led to this catastrophe: The Taft-Hartley Act, the creation and staffing of the CIA with hard line supporters of Hitler and the fascists, the conversion of currency into a commodity and the lack of enforcement and failure to strengthen the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, labor and environmental law and the merger & acquisition and the deregulation manias of the late 70s and the 80s. All of these acts were begun by prior generations. The boomers' failure was in believing the BS that rained down on them during the Cold War.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>PaineRad</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:54:50 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Ken Carman says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'm sorry, but articles like this piss me off. Those who write them know less about baby boomers than they think they know. While early boomers did well, later ones had the same problems: as bad, or worse. Early 70s: no jobs, college loans banks refused to work with us on etc. etc. They are very much the same, though intensity varied on an individual basis. WE WERE SCREWED TOO. Ever wonder why so many college grads simply gave up trying to find work in my generation? We were treated much the same. Though I think our fathers gen treated us poorly due to the idea their revulsion @ the 60s, for the most part this is caused by the previous generation being full of itself and a bit sociopath-ic. Yes, the "greatest generation" qualifies here. Many may have been heroes, but far too many sank into the same kind of "I got mine and screw them" Right Wing moon bat-ery that's so prevalent now among my generation. We seem to have a hell of a time learning from past generations as a species.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ken Carman</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:48:21 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Virginia says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Don't start with me about what "our" generation left to our children. It's moronic not to acknowledge the fact that the government leaders for the past 40 years have played a major role (both parties) in destroying America. We've allowed cartels to run our economy - whether on Wall Street, environmental, and/or farming. Maybe our children will find the balls that we left behind after Viet Nam and eliminate the sons of bitches that ruined The United States.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Virginia</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:39:30 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Ralph Averill says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I disagree with the basic premis; we boomers didn't "screw" the millenials. We didn't get together and plot to steal it all. That was done by a handful of the very wealthy who, one could easily argue, screwed the millenials more than they screwed the rest of us.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ralph Averill</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:36:17 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>angelfish says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Todays Youth have NOT been Screwed by their parents. They HAVE been screwed by the profligate Mega-wealthy and Banksters who think that rules and the Law are only for "the little people". They have bought our SCOTUS and had the rules changed to favor THEM and Pissed on the "little people" til most of us have just about drowned! They will NOT like what will happen in November. Americans are tired of being Pissed on and it will ALL change on Election Day! Never, EVER vote ReTHUGlican! The People, United, will NEVER be defeated!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>angelfish</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:43:02 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Cliff says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-198955</link>
			<description><![CDATA[So maybe those more menial jobs should be paid even more. Then people might not borrow themselves into forever debt to educate themselves. For a long time the only well-paying jobs required years more of education than public school provides.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Cliff</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:07:01 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>cordleycoit says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Watch them play off the generations. It is so easy to do. And it means that there will be no reform while the bicker goes on and on. I do not see much of future for reform because it will be crashing again and again until we throw the crooked system out.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>cordleycoit</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:55:49 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Cliff says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I always hear this from Republicans. Kick them all out. But after the election, my brother always admits that he voted for incumbents. Why not really look at how they voted. If you disagree, vote them out. Too many people vote like sheep.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Cliff</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:53:37 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Cliff says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[John, I read and like the enjoy the Home of the Brave. Nice thinking outside the box. I have always been a liberal capitalist, but I am re-thinking the capitalist part. I no longer believe competition will produce better products. Just as often greed produces dangerous goods. Not saying communism is the way to go, but surely it is not all bad. And why shouldn't any idea be open for discussion? Isn't that what the U.S. was founded on?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Cliff</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:50:04 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>hd70642 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Well if they can salvage anything from a situation they had no fault is recognizing that a greater sense of community is worth far more than over valued sense of self . In addition this down ward trend actually began with the manufacturing decline during the Ford Adminstration ,and was picking up in steam during Saint Ronald Ronald' reign ,and by the time GW came along this decline was going by so fast is it any wonder folks finally began to take notice they beeing left behind ,and yes I feel occupy was more than a little over due ,but better late than never !!!Those that fail to remember history are condemed to repeat it and those who control the past control the future. Those same elitest dinglings decided to repeat history are trying to scapegoat Rosevelt who cleaned up the mess left by Hoover .]]></description>
			<dc:creator>hd70642</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:47:13 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>sjporter says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I hate to say it but we're all screwed - keeping up with what's happening with Global Warming/Climate Change, it's clear that the devastation coming to our beautiful planet has already started. And yet what do they want to do now? Shell, and our other Big Oil companies want to drill into the Arctic Ocean, and they, along with China, Russia, Canada and the other countries that circle the Arctic are actually thrilled that the ice is shrinking each year. Not only can they drill, but they will finally have the Northwest Passage that money makers have been wanting for centuries. We're not just talking about heat, drought and rising food prices, we're talking rising sea level, vastly stronger storms/hurrican es/tornado systems, both here but also around the world on the coasts. We'll have climate refugees pushing up from Southern Asia, Indonesia into India, Pakistan and China - hey, what could go wrong? Climate change is getting pushed aside as if it were a separate issue that the media is sorry to bore you with. Time to DEMAND attention to at least lessening the worst of the environmental catastrophes to come.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>sjporter</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:26:07 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Gordon K says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-198943</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Generational analyses of moral rectitude are pointless. People are people. Some are kind; some are greedy, and so it goes. The only thing that has changed is the rapid technological advances that have enabled a few greedy manipulators to screw up the world, rather than screw up just a town, or city, or state.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Gordon K</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:21:45 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>anarchteacher says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-198941</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Watch "Ron Paul - 2002 predictions come true" http://www.youtube.com/embed/jQ0mLRzCY_M or "Fraud - Why The Great Recession" at YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/embed/PTpKGiVwKHY People who out of willful ignorance ignore Ron Paul, Professor Jesús Huerta de Soto, or Peter Schiff (who predicted this economic crisis) do so at their own serious peril. Actions have consequences. It was Fed Chairmen Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke and the elite economic advisors surrounding Bush, Obama -- and now Romney -- who caused (and then callously prolonged) this financial meltdown. Relying upon them for viable policy solutions is the sheerest of follies. The chickens have come home to roost, and we are the omelet being devoured by the power elite 1% of Wall Street and DC. No War But The Class War!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>anarchteacher</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:02:06 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Rainphase says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-198940</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I would be interested in seeing a study on how the dynamics described in this article play out within families themselves, between boomer parents and their 20-something children, especially where the parents are Republicans. I imagine, based on my own experience, there might be a lot of frustration/sha me/anger/stress going on, especially in cases when parents fail to understand the situation their kids are in and don't understand how much more difficult it is to get a high-paying job and to afford to buy a home now compared to when the parents were young adults.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Rainphase</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:51:41 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>rblee says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/12467-americas-screwed-generation#comment-198938</link>
			<description><![CDATA[How about blaming it on corporate and political sociopaths--the elites of whatever generation bred by this American Empire?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>rblee</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:21:37 -0800</pubDate>
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