Posted by Tina
A story this morning from Mediaite mirrors the mood of many people in our nation as we come to the end of 2012:
President Barack Obama has always had a broad base of support among America’s youngest voters. In 2012, 60 percent of voters aged 18-29 took to the polls to reelect the president. According to a Harvard University’s Institute of Politics poll released on Wednesday, however, many young voters are regretting the votes they cast just over one year ago.
11 percent more young adults, aged 18-29, disapprove of the president’s performance in office than they did last year. Only 41 percent of millennials expressed approval with Obama’s job performance. Of the 55 percent of young voters who admitted to casting their ballot for Obama in 2012, just 46 percent said they would do the same again.
52 percent of younger millennials, aged 18-24, told Harvard pollsters that they would support a recalling of the president from the Oval Office. 47 percent of all young voters said they would support such a measure. Fortunately for the president, no provision to recall the President of the United States exists in the Constitution.
Another complaint from this group was expressed this morning by a young conservative who suggested that the President’s policy of pressuring the young to take out student loans reminded him of the tactics of some lenders before the housing crash…those “predatory lenders” that pressured people into taking out bad loans to buy a home. His opinion struck me as having a ring of truth to it. As the government took over the student loan market I noticed that advertisement encouraging people to attend college and offering college loans was suddenly everywhere, in magazines, on television and on the web. I even began receiving unsolicited calls at home and at work offering loans. (Same with housing loans, business loans).
Time Business & Money reported in October that student loan’s were “becoming a drain on the economy” in October:
The housing recovery remains on track. But high levels of student debt threaten to hang over the residential real estate market for many years, acting as a drag on both household formation and higher prices.
At the height of the housing boom, the U.S. was producing 1.4 million additional households every year. That figure plunged to 500,000 in the Great Recession. The number of new households is expanding again but remains stuck at 700,000—half the peak level. One big reason is underemployed new college graduates struggling with student debt and unable to contribute to the economy.
“Three-fourths of the fall in household formation can be directly correlated to student debt,” Rohit Chopra, student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said at a conference last week. His comments were reported on Mainstreet.com.
Debt seems to be the drug that this administration, and government in general, pushes.
The President’s approval number dipped just below 40% in polling of the general public recently with 53% disapproval. It’s likely that young millennials, who voted for Obama in great numbers in both elections, have turned away from the hope and change President.
“Debt seems to be the drug that this administration, ….”
Alas, from the OMB:
“The Office of Management and Budget and the Department of the Treasury today released the fiscal year (FY) 2013 budget results, which show that we are continuing to make significant progress in reducing the deficit. The final 2013 deficit was $680 billion, $409 billion less than the 2012 deficit and $293 billion less than forecast in President Obama’s April Budget. As a percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the deficit fell to 4.1 percent, representing a reduction of more than half from the deficit that the Administration inherited when the President took office in 2009. The deficit reduction since that point represents the fastest decline in the deficit over a sustained period since the end of World War II.”
But facts are nothing to you, as we all know only too well. You just skate merrily along, driven entirely by paranoia and prejudice.
It’s getting kinda boring, actually.
1. Don’t get too happy the whole campaign to take the black president down will bite the Tea Party in the end. Is it really unusual these polls at this point in any presidents carer? No !
Diff is the negative Tea party propaganda vs say the for profit on the credit card deficit creating Bush Iraq war and his polls at this time.
2. President’s policy of pressuring the young to take out student loans …That is total ridiculous…
enough said
Thanks Obama you are the cause of everything wrong for the last 200 years…there ya go good enough?
Libby: “Alas…”
Alas, the article is about personal debt, particularly debt incurred by students who cannot, in the Obama economy, find a job so they can begin to pay down that debt. Think of it! Colleges students that cannot find work adequate to live on much less pay down student loan debt that the President encouraged them to take!!!
Yes the government is the pusher of student loan debt, especially since Obama took control of student loans:
CNS News:
That’s a 463% increase!
Maybe if you would read what I actually wrote you wouldn’t be so “bored”.
IBD:
Madison Root for president in 2040!!!
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/05/an-11-year-old-just-delivered-an-incredible-radio-interview-on-her-generations-work-ethic/
Deshawn Blair for president in 2045!!
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/03/this-kids-words-are-so-simple-and-powerful-they-have-the-potential-to-change-to-the-world-if-enough-people-listen/
Peggy are the kids in the second article attending a charter school? I got that impression. Charter schools give educators the space to be dynamic teachers. I was impressed by the attitudes and the sense of aliveness in the kid’s faces…an excerpt I could not resist posting for those who won’t click on the links:
They live in a he** hole and they are learning values that will lift them out and into the middle class or higher. Fantastic!
The little girl from Oregon who was told to beg for money to pay for braces rather than selling mistletoe. This from a cop on the Portland streets that are a beggar’s hangout. What an inspiration; an eleven year old that gets better than the elders beside her with their hands out!
#7 Tina
Both of these kids blew me away. Talk about out of the mouths of babes. These two kids if they are examples of the next generation understand their lives is built on a foundation of hard work for what they have and not the handouts from the government or the street corner begging from others. The Millennials will be known in history as the lost generation while the next may be known as the one that saved America for generations to come.
Northpointe is a charter school.
http://www.greatschools.org/michigan/highland-park/6114-Northpointe-Academy/
Didn’t you just love hearing those kids say they “respect the white guy?” And him showing his love for them by being the “father” figure they don’t have. Wow!! Talk about love that knows no bounds it pure and simple based on trust and respect for each other no matter what color your skin is.
The little girl from Oregon sold all of her mistletoe on Glenn Becks website in 30 minutes this morning. Beck did it free of charge so she could pay for her braces without begging for the money. She sold a thousand pkg for $10, plus shipping.
I’d say she paid for her braces AND without ObamaCare pediatric dental care mandated coverage paid for by the Millenials who don’t want to sign up or becoming a beggar or ward of the government.
Yes, sir I do believe this young lady has a very bright future ahead for herself.
Peggy, “Wow!! Talk about love that knows no bounds it pure and simple based on trust and respect for each other no matter what color your skin is.”
Yes, excellent. Also, he shows the power of a single individual making a difference in his own personal surroundings.
Imagine millions of these schools with teachers unfettered and supported by rules that empower them and include expectations of excellence from the students!
I heard about the young lady from Oregon. Imagine a cop telling a kid to beg! In America!!! Glad she earned the money for her braces.
This kind of thing has happened several times. Were you tuned in back when Dan’s Bake Sale took place in colorado?
Speaking of Obamacare and mandated coverage…
I got a phone message today that blew me away. It said that my healthcare provider could now offer me the following:
1. A free medical Alert System
2. A thousand dollars of free groceries.
3. A 15% off Prescription Card
The groceries kinda threw me. Was this a navigator cold calling for enrollments in creative ways? A scam artist hoping to get my information? A desperate navigator just trying to get his foot ijn any door? LOL…who knows!
Also, I was down on Mangrove today across from a navigator center. A guy (or girl couldn’t tell) was outside wiggling one of those signs like fast food and tire stores use to attract business. Business must be awful slow at the health insurance navigator store!
#9 Tina,
Don’t those two kids just bring a smile to your face and hope for our country’s future? Then sadness hits when I realized they’re the exception and not the norm.
The girl said she learned what she believed from her parents and family. How many kids are growing up with out parents or a father any more to teach them that hard work and working hard is expected of everyone who is able. Have you seen Mike Rowe’s poster that read, “Work Smarter AND Work Harder?” He adapted it from an old WWII poster that read, “Work Smarter NOT Harder.” He’s set up a website and scholarships for getting kids into good pay trade jobs. Check it out, he’s doing really good things.
The little boy in the music program at the charter school is a beautiful ray of hope of what the majority of our kids lives could be like with parental or parental-type love and guidance and school systems that puts the kids first instead of the teachers and fat-salaried administrators.
Washington DC, with one of the worst educational systems banning vouchers for kids living in poverty to go to charter or private schools to keep public school teacher, etc. employed is shameful.
You know I worked at that community college for over 25 years and could write volumes about the high school students that had 6th grade English and math test scores when they came to us. They were already on a path to failure. We couldn’t in two years make up for the education they didn’t get in the previous twelve grades.
If they were on financial aid they had two years and 60 units max to complete their educational plan before their aid ran out. If they weren’t college level in math there was no way they could complete all of the levels to transfer to a university in just two years. They’d be out of money and then the CSU’s changed their transfer requirements mandating the math grade HAD to be posted on the transcripts PRIOR to acceptance. So many students had failed their math course making them ineligible for transfer, which meant a spring semester transfer student had to complete the math course the previous spring or summer since fall semester, which ended just before Christmas, grades could not be posted to transcripts in time to meet the January beginning of the spring semester. Those student/s are now in an even bigger mess. They can’t go back to the CC for financial aid for one class and they can’t go forward to the CSU/UC. Hello McDonalds while taking one math class over again.
Sorry, didn’t mean to go off on a memory trip, but I saw thousands and thousands of these kids with a road to no where and to see this young boy get the love, support and education that so many other kids deserve brings and smile and a tear to my heart.
Don’t remember Dan’s bake sale, will try and look it up.
Thanks for the heads-up on the phone call guy. I’m going to ask if I get a call I’ll ask if they have free trips to tropical places too. Pretty sad when you have to bribe, pay hawkers and lie to get people to fork over money for the Obama Snake Oil. If it was really such a good deal people would be lining up like on Black Friday at Best Buy, instead of being threatened with penalties for not buying.
I’m looking at ice on my patio. Maybe I need to consider that medical alert system too before going to check out if my pool pump froze last night. Hope not, otherwise I’ll have to pick between fixing it, a trip to Hawaii or someplace else nice and warm or ObamaCare when my plan gets cancelled next year. Wonder if I can live on a cruise ship cheaper? Room, board, food, medical and I get to see the world. Huummm?