Revolutions or unmanageable riots have inevitably followed the rise of masses of bored, underemployed young people.
Young People in the Recession - The War Against Youth - Esquire
Island in the Net by Khürt Williams
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Revolutions or unmanageable riots have inevitably followed the rise of masses of bored, underemployed young people.
Young People in the Recession - The War Against Youth - Esquire
There is a young America and there is an old America, and they don’t form a community of interest. One takes from the other. The federal government spends $480 billion on Medicare and $68 billion on education. Prescription drugs: $62 billion. Head Start: $8 billion. Across the board, the money flows not to helping the young grow up, but helping the old die comfortably. According to a 2009 Brookings Institution study, “The United States spends 2.4 times as much on the elderly as on children, measured on a per capita basis, with the ratio rising to 7 to 1 if looking just at the federal budget.
“The War Against Youth” (via climateadaptation)
After reading this, I am concerned about my future and the future of my kids.