Generation Z Looks a Lot Like Millennials on Key Social and Political Issues

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  1. dairyair

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    No f'n clue how that is related to the post you responded to.
    But you did get your hourly post about Venezuelans in, so I guess that is what is really important.
     
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    I see so many in these forums rail on CA while they live there.
    There's a name for those who complain about a situation and does nothing about it. I think it's whining.
    We know donnie is the chief whiner in the country.
     
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    The only Californians who rail on California are those who remember when California was the Golden State.
     
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    Well sure, but you had to have high value added jobs in order for business to afford to pay middle class wages. I know you must understand how that works. If a job is high value added, this generates the income that can pay higher wages, and the owners still make a profit after they pay themselves a nice income. My business was high value added jobs, so I paid middle class wages. I would have had a hard time, doing that, if I had been low value added service sector. Indeed, I could not have paid the wages I paid if I owned a fast food joint. Not enough margin, after cost of goods sold to pay what I paid my workers.
     
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    Yes, I will not argue against the suicide being in part attributed to the way society views these people and their affections. After all we know some kids who get bullied, also commit suicide.

    I see these delusions, whatever the cause as being our reality. Therefore I think some serious research should be devoted to this, to see if we can help those who might want to be helped. If you don't want the help, then carry on in your delusion. The trouble comes in when some on the radical left call any research unnecessary, and even driven by some kind of phobia. Which is utter nonsense of course. And IMO, rather destructive.
     
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    Republicans who hate living in California are like 'dumb and dumber' characters. We essentially ignore them and provide for them just like any other Californians.

    Today is close to 80F. It is currently 39F in Dallas & 49F in Houston.
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    Calling it free, as if it costs no one a dime is not quite right. Right?

    I think about it a little differently, although I am in full support of single payer, medicare for all, and state college financed by a less than one percent tax on every wall street transaction. And as a social safety net, either no cost for the poor person or a low cost for the working poor when it comes to housing.

    But the best way to pull people out of poverty is by a nation having an economic model that provides living wage jobs for as many people as possible. And that means an end to slave labor globalism that guts an economy like ours of living wage jobs, replacing them with working poor service sector jobs that require for taxpayers to provide welfare not only for the working poor, but as a subsidy for corporations who will not pay living wages. For it takes a specific level of income to just survive, and if the business is not paying that, than other working americans are. On behalf of the corporation who will not pay living wages. We have business models based upon this kind of welfare, so the corporation can max out profits.
     
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  8. dairyair

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    Wow, you old enough and still alive to remember the Gold Rush?
    Any way, for at least 50 yrs now, Ca has always been know as weirdos and la la land to those outside of Ca.
     
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    Go ahead say it. the land of fruits and nuts.
     
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    That you would prefer was more like Kansas. Boring! :sleepy:
     
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    I like the personal freedoms you have in Arizona.

    Texas also has more personal freedoms than most states.

    Now I'm old enough to remember when California also use to be near the top when it came to personal freedoms.

    Today California is near the bottom on the freedom scale.

    Once you experience freedom and then lose that freedom...you aren't a happy camper.
     
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    No, those prices were supported also, because we had high middle class wages for low skill labor jobs.
    Since the killing of Unions and union jobs, prices had to fall, and they did.

    Those low labor countries were able to provide the same products much much cheaper. And those who lost jobs for lower paying jobs had to adjust and they did. But cheaper products allowed for lower wages.

    I remember back in the 80s. Grocery stock workers, mostly college student at that time, were part of a union and thy made $10/hr. Equivalent to about $30/hr today.
     
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    What "freedoms" are to referring to? Are you a gun collector resentful that assault rifles are not allowed? Are you a racist/ bigot angry that you cannot deny renters who happen to be Black or gay?
     
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    What have you personally lost?
     
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    Oh yeah, that was the saying.
     
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    I assume research is on going as to why transgenders are transgender. Or for any other hosts of mental activities that isn't part of the standard deviation of the bell curve of what would be deemed a normal population.
     
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    This is a thread about whiney youth and their free **** mentality.
    Dog tastes great in a workers paradise
     
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    I only see old people, conservative/libertarian type whining.
     
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    They're the ones whing about the rich and all the fee **** they deserve? Funny
     
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    "Classical liberal" is a euphemism for libertarian.

    Libertarianism is an abject failure both under the Articles of Confederation and recently in Kansas. In both instances We the People REJECTED it because it is a failure.
     
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    Not really, but they were more libertarian in many respects.
    (concerns over civil liberties, sexual freedom, etc)

    At some point liberals completely ditched the liberal side, went socio-fascist and now believe the means justify the ends.
     
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    Yeah America always looks to Kansas for wisdom :laughing:
     
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    The extremist rightwing have attempted to DEMONIZE the term liberal however they still cannot alter the DICTIONARY meaning of the term.

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liberal

     
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    The dictionary term no longer fits the present-day liberal.
     
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    You are entitled to your misinformed opinion but REALITY ignores it.
     
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