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**Todilrdc** · 07-09-2012, 12:05 PM

Plenty of good answers so far.

Many of us moved out as soon as we were able for the freedom that comes with having your own residence, many parents want their children to leave to have the house to themselves.

But if one thinks about it, the idea that living with your parents as a young adult, either going to college or helping out with bills with a job (or while unemployed, doing an great deal of chores around the home), as lazy, entitled, and shameful is absurd.

It's become a political tool. Many of the elderly don't understand, they were able to get jobs right out of high school with better pay and benefits than many of us with even some college education can now. I think that many attribute the peculiar behavior of their grandkid or nephew/niece to younger people in general, rather than admit to him or herself that maybe their loved one is just odd. (Wonder how someone whose grandson is a "brony" must view us young folk)

And Fox News has been great for fueling that fire, we young adults with families are "parasites" for taking Earned Income Tax Credits (which can put our Federal income tax in the negative numbers, kind of a negative income tax like Milton Friedman advocated and which Ronald Reagen championed), are not struggling at all because we have air conditioners, ceiling fans, and "color TVs," and need to get off our asses and make something of ourselves. It's like they don't realize that we are in a depression, that job opportunities are suffering, and thanks to that we will now be making much less for probably the rest of our lives, because we have been leveraged against.

The "parasite" part at the end of this video shows what I'm talking about. It's disgusting, but that is how many want to see the next generation (whether consciously or not):

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/th...e-ride-is-over

Any adults who live with their parents would be thought of as a parasite, even though it would probably save this country immensely in public housing, if we just changed our social norm.

07-09-2012, 12:05 PM	#14
Todilrdc Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 540 Senior Member	Plenty of good answers so far. Many of us moved out as soon as we were able for the freedom that comes with having your own residence, many parents want their children to leave to have the house to themselves. But if one thinks about it, the idea that living with your parents as a young adult, either going to college or helping out with bills with a job (or while unemployed, doing an great deal of chores around the home), as lazy, entitled, and shameful is absurd. It's become a political tool. Many of the elderly don't understand, they were able to get jobs right out of high school with better pay and benefits than many of us with even some college education can now. I think that many attribute the peculiar behavior of their grandkid or nephew/niece to younger people in general, rather than admit to him or herself that maybe their loved one is just odd. (Wonder how someone whose grandson is a "brony" must view us young folk) And Fox News has been great for fueling that fire, we young adults with families are "parasites" for taking Earned Income Tax Credits (which can put our Federal income tax in the negative numbers, kind of a negative income tax like Milton Friedman advocated and which Ronald Reagen championed), are not struggling at all because we have air conditioners, ceiling fans, and "color TVs," and need to get off our asses and make something of ourselves. It's like they don't realize that we are in a depression, that job opportunities are suffering, and thanks to that we will now be making much less for probably the rest of our lives, because we have been leveraged against. The "parasite" part at the end of this video shows what I'm talking about. It's disgusting, but that is how many want to see the next generation (whether consciously or not): http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/th...e-ride-is-over Any adults who live with their parents would be thought of as a parasite, even though it would probably save this country immensely in public housing, if we just changed our social norm.
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