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A healthy economy with plentiful jobs that have decent pay with just a high school diploma. For me, all I want is a job that would provide enough pay to comfortably support a wife and 4 children. But no, we all have to go to college, waste money and build thousands in debt in order to do so.
I make over 100k with only a high school diploma. Anyone can... You just have to be willing to make sacrifices. If you're not willing to, then go get your indoctrination from a university. It will make you enough to do what you say want to do.
I make over 100k with only a high school diploma. Anyone can... You just have to be willing to make sacrifices. If you're not willing to, then go get your indoctrination from a university. It will make you enough to do what you say want to do.
Is that 100K yourself, or family income? And, if I may ask, what do you do for a living?
being able to attend school without ending up under a crushing amount of student loan debt.
At least getting a job in the field I studied. Entry level is fine as long as I am able to work my way up. I don't expect a six figure salary right out of college.
Reasonably affordable health care
Not have the government spy on me and restrict my liberties under some vague form of "national security."
As a Millennial in his late 20s, my priorities is to find a better paying job and move out of NYC. Also find a suitable girlfriend to be wife and try to settle down and start a family but due to the economy I had to hold out on those wants and try to improve my situation first . I also noticed with my generation we seem to be more intuned with technology spending countless hours on sites like this or tweeting or facebooking kindling and texting. The big problem with my generation is that they are in to too much technology and believe in information from the internet over fellow peers that's around them. What I also noticed about my generation they tend to be more into capatlist brands than anything else. If you visited occupy wall street last year the most noticeable brand was either Nike, starbucks or apple logos from iphones and macbooks. Last my generation seems to be more urban or wants some sort of Urban lifestyle and reject suburban comforts of pervious generations like the baby boomers. So far my generation don't know what's important to them as of yet until they can eliminate the countless dollars of debt they owe for attending college for earning a worthless piece of paper that has not brought them any prosperity at the moment. Thank goodness I don't owe any debt and spend credit wisely, and invest in some sort of stock. Last thankfully I don't own any more apple crap, out here in NYC to many young people are getting shot, robbed, burglarized for idevices.
Having a daughter that's just about college age, there's one overriding theme that the young seem to have in common. They feel this sense that all injustice should be righted, or what they deem to be injustice. Of course, as you mature, you realize that some things should just take their natural course, that some people really do bring about their own bad luck, and that some things are truly worth fighting for. I think as youth change over from the child's point of view of the world into one of an adult, they change their priorities and political views.
Does this survey surprise me at all? Nope. It lends right into the issues of the day as to what they deem injustice. Taxes, family, mortgages, and careers will have an impact on their views as they mature. What would really interest me is if they surveyed these exact same people 20 years from now!
great post What did Winston Churchill say? (I don't want to misquote him)
The point is that young people have a different idea of the world because they have less life experience than older people. The problem that we have now is that the majority of colleges are abusing their authority and preying on these young people. Liberalism seems so much more sexy and exciting when you're 20 than it is in real life. I think the older liberals are either stuck in a time warp, or brainwashed to the point that they can not change their thinking.
great post What did Winston Churchill say? (I don't want to misquote him)
The point is that young people have a different idea of the world because they have less life experience than older people. The problem that we have now is that the majority of colleges are abusing their authority and preying on these young people. Liberalism seems so much more sexy and exciting when you're 20 than it is in real life. I think the older liberals are either stuck in a time warp, or brainwashed to the point that they can not change their thinking.
In my personal opinion, older Liberals seem to be the true believer types (e.g. staunch environmentalists, feminists, etc), voters conditioned from environment (e.g. family has always voted D), dreamers (i.e. people looking for a 'utiopia'), people looking to have gov't solve life's problems for them, and those that favor more European style government. That is, of course, not a comprehensive list but does cover some major groups.
It was a generalization and as I said, not comprehensive. I know it's not exactly on topic but what's your opinion on why so many start off liberal in their youth and then move over to the conservative side as they mature?
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What did Winston Churchill say? (I don't want to misquote him) 
