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This is just a natural tendency for rational poor people. Look at Africa and Asia - you often find entire families, spanning 4 generations, living under the same roof. This is because it allows them to consolidate expenses and reduce costs, nothing more. The trend is starting to catch on here as more and more people feel the economic pinch.
The government will just expand the welfare energy program that helps you pay your electric bill to subsidize more people.
It's 130% of the poverty line now so they can up it to 400% like Obamacare.
Yeah that's it. The middle class will pay through the nose at the pumps, in home heating/cooling costs and through pass down costs and unemployment and then they'll also have to pay more taxes to subsidize those sucking on the government teat whose expenses will also rise.
"In 2012, 36% (21.6 million) of the nation’s young adults ages 18 to 31—the so-called Millennial generation—were living in their parents’ home, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. This is the highest share in at least four decades and represents a slow but steady increase over the 32% of their same-aged counterparts who were living at home prior to the Great Recession in 2007 and the 34% doing so when it officially ended in 2009."
This is also the reason why they don't mind the government taking care of them. They are so used to their parents taking care of them, they don't know what it's like to be a grown-up taking care of themself and maybe a family, too.
And they're competing with all the adults looking for work too. Thank God we have a president focused like a laser on the economy...oh wait, he's busy sending warships to Syria, guess we'll have to wait another year or so.
Yeah that's it. The middle class will pay through the nose at the pumps, in home heating/cooling costs and through pass down costs and unemployment and then they'll also have to pay more taxes to subsidize those sucking on the government teat whose expenses will also rise.
And here's something that I didn't realize was happening.
We have this Fed poverty line.
And we have these means tested programs.
Without knowing any better you assume that folks making above Fed poverty line don't qualify.
But I read an article where it showed SNAP income restrictions are 130% of Fed poverty line.
Then I looked at a few other means tested programs and they are all over the place up to 200% of Fed poverty line.
Who is "poor" in the eyes of the Fed depends on their definition (100% Fed poverty line to 400% Fed poverty line).
For a single person that ranges from $12K - $45K a year.
For a family of three that ranges from $20K - $78K a year.
Who would have ever thought that people making $45K a year qualify for means tested programs ?
Who would have ever thought that families making $78K a year qualify for means tested programs ?
That sure alters your perception of poverty, doesn't it ?
I didn't say anything about luxury. I didn't say it was easy for anyone.
But it's worth it.
My kids all thought it might be better at home. Then when we helped them get their wings and moved them out, with the EXPECTATION that they would succeed, and the pressure TO succeed, they realized how terrific independence and self sufficiency felt and now, without exception, they've all thanked us for forcing them to grow up and take responsibility for their own lives and well being.
My kids didn't EXPECT to have a big, comfortable home at age 22. They didn't expect to have 122 channels of television, the latest cell phone, a tablet AND a laptop AND a lifetime supply of video games and consoles, with leather sofas to lounge around on. They didn't expect to have Mom and Dad pay for their groceries and utilities so they would have plenty of spending money to go out on every weekend. They didn't expect to be able to bring home their significant others to spend the night - or heck, just move them on in.
They expected to have to hoof it, to live leanly, to do without - JUST AS THEIR PARENTS DID - when they became adults and MOVED OUT.
Now that they have some of those things (my older kids now have all of the above - but they've paid for it all), they truly appreciate their own accomplishments. They can take pride in their own endeavors, meeting their own goals.
For some reason, when you pay for your own stuff, you take better care of it and appreciate it more.
I'd rather my kids have an environment that didn't kill them.
Business can catch up or go the way of the dinosaur.
I thought you didn't have kids.
The third world has cheap labor because adult children live with their parents and can work for very low wages because they have no rent or mortgage.
Crowded households mean that people can accept those low wage jobs that Americans think they're too good to do --- but incrementally, this is becoming more and more acceptable.
Bill and Hillary Clinton did tell us that we were going to have to start competing with third world labor. So we are. The only way we can do that is to live like the third world and have 4 generations and at least 5 families sharing expenses.
Kick 'em to the curb. If they can't make a living by the age of 40, you raised them wrong.
Gee, I thought conservatives were all about personal responsibility.
What is wrong with staying home and taking care of your family? How come it is ok for the uber-weathy to all live in one big house that is passed down from generation to generation?
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