- May 12, 2022
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This is what is upsetting. Because you’re either ignoring the point or not caring about it. And I don’t support free handouts. I believe I’ve already said that so you don’t need to worry about repeating that point.So what do you propose they do? Sounds like you’re hinting that successful people, who made sacrifices to get career training and/or start a small business give money to kids who feel they’re too above it all to deign to share an apartment.
And no idea what your smack against my Jewish values was all about. There is nothing contrary to Jewish values in expecting able-bodied young adults to share an apartment or rooms in a house if that is what they can afford. My father was a religious Jew and found nothing wrong with renting a room in a basement until he could afford better. Neither did his parents, who were very old-fashioned religious Jews.
Expectimg handouts is NOT a Jewish value. What IS a Jewish value is helping people support themselves, and that is why I am glad we have Pell Grants for lower-income people - so they can learn a trade, or work toward a degree, and be able to earn more than minimum wage.
Here is the point with respect for the third time. The average 25 year-old in the USA makes half of what they did 40 years ago. Which was perhaps your era and the era of many of the older posters here.
What don’t you understand about that point.?
I mean the point is Crystal clear it is harder to make money today compared to your era. It’s an irrefutable fact discussed by Professor Scott Galloway. It’s the raw data.
And the solution to the issues is to have better leadership.
1 Stop printing trillions of dollars… do something about the national debt
2 Stop bringing in millions of illegals jacking up the housing costs and lowering the wages.
Jewish values is a critical thing because you have always said you are Jewish…. and I try and believe in Catholic values as a Catholic. I’m not perfect but these are things that guide me and you constantly talk about your Jewish values so that’s why I brought it up. Nothing negative is meant… But there’s a disconnect going on this conversation as you keep going back to points that don’t relate to the conversation like perceived laziness among the youth, sharing apartments, or the false assumption that I believe in handouts for people.