Rising number of overdoses amid dim job prospects for Millenials

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  1. kazenatsu

    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/...-mortality-rates-of-young-whites.html?mcubz=0

    http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/apr/19/deaths-of-despair-stalk-millennials-in-unforgiving/

    Seems like more people in the younger generation are turning to drugs amid dim job prospects in the economy. The number of overdoses has spiked. Young people are delaying having families, if they have families at all.


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...27c98455440_story.html?utm_term=.c3e554a67317

    http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/07/news/economy/opioid-epidemic-job-market/index.html

    (A quick comment here: Maybe this isn't so different from Prohibition. You had a lot of low paid workers in difficult situations who turned to alcohol to numb their stress and worries away. Employers at the time were complaining they couldn't find good sober workers who would put up with those working conditions)
     
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    Economy is bad because liberal unions, taxes, and budget deficits shipped 20 million jobs offshore, and because liberals invited in 30 million illegals to take the remaining jobs and bid down wages still further.
     
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    Reality, meet the participation trophy generation.

    It's not that there aren't enough jobs, it's that they think they're too good to do anything unless it pays 100k a year.
     
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    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Interestingly you don't hear a lot of Millennials complaining about it. I guess that's all they've ever known.
    People only tend to complain when you take away something from them they've once had.
     
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    This has nothing to do with job prospects. It's about low self-esteem or mental illness. I'm not sure there is a good answer for either of these root causes? Not finding a job is just an excuse for drugs and alcohol. Perhaps this is a common defect in humans...
     
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    100% wrong. In past people got good jobs. They didn't suddenly develop low self esteem or mental illness.

    What changed is liberal taxes unions and deficits plus 30 million illegals!! OBviously!!
     
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    this is why conservatives study history and try to preserve the best of it. Today we take for granted locking our house tight every night because liberals don't know conservative history when most people were not crooks.
     
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    Actually the low cost computers and the internet happened but keep blaming lettuce pickers for typewriter repair shops closing.
     
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    News flash; People don't 'get' jobs! People must earn those jobs which means education, skills, communications, self-esteem, hard work.

    The government estimate on illegals is 7-12 million so when you spew 30 million you are just lying to support your perverted viewpoint.

    And of those 7-12 million illegals, which you carelessly believe they have taken 'good jobs', these are some of the lowest paying jobs so why would you set your sights on these jobs? Here's a suggestion; instead of wishing you could work in farm fields, or paving roads, or roofing a house in summer, or cleaning hotel rooms, etc. why can't you fathom going after jobs that are in middle and upper pay ranges?
     
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    Thread Win ^^^^^^
     
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    if new inventions harmed our economy we would have made them illegal 2000 years ago. Liberals can not learn Econ 101.
     
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    If illegals harmed our economy you folks would still be in England
     
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    yes and in Republican 1950's people got jobs marriages houses, now they dont thanks to rise of libsocialism.
     
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    so illegals taking jobs from our poor is good for us???? IS this the liberal IQ at work?
     
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    If I said I wished I worked in a farm field I will pay you $10,000 Bet. Do you know what a straw man is?
     
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    Only people who live in the past are blind to the fact that immigrants, legal or otherwise, add capacity to the US economy. It doesn't take it away. By and large, people who want to work, work. A lot of people do not work because they are incapable of work or are taking care of people who are incapable of work. No freaking body is going to travel around picking tomatoes for a living but immigrants in any significant number.
     
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    A simple "nonsense" in answer to the above is all that is required.
     
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    Yes, to many Democrats that all Latinos are good for - lettuce pickers - so tell the lie that most illegal immigrants are field hands, which is a lie.
     
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    That also is a lie. Blacks have literally sued because large growers will hire illegal migrants over Americans. Again, your messages are grotesque racism against Latinos who you see as only fit to "pick tomatoes."
     
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    You're down playing it to much , we all know the big companies like Google, apple and all are in cahoots with each other to keep labor cost low, that's why they had a heart attach with Trump's ban on immigrants
     
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    You pay them like construction workers of course they will.
     
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    100% wrong of course !! 30 million illegals when jobs have gone to China and American wages have gone down not up for 30 years is a huge mistake. Best to build wall and get in control of border and take limited immigration from superior cultures as Canada does.
     
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    cut off their welfare etc, pay them a market rate and Americans will learn to work again, and teach their children to take school seriously again!!!
     
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    The only real reason American Democrats are Latino Nationalists is because Latinos vote for Democrats.
     
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    "nonsense" does not teach any one anything, would not be permitted in court for same reason, and is a waste of time mostly used by liberal folks who don't have a clue about why something feels like nonsense to them. Liberal frustration about their inability to reason is what leads to most of their street violence.
     

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