College Student: My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us

I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to fix the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.


We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty. One. Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.


Our un-appreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest e*****rates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.


Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.


Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? Who is raising them?


The answer is this, my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We don't know what it's like to live in a 3rd world. We didn't live in the great depression or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or see the rise and fall of socialism and c*******m. We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, we want it all for FREE and it's spreading like a plague." This plague will bring down all they have, I guess then they will understand!

I used to think I was just a regular person, but I was born white, which now, whether I like it or not, makes me a r****t.

I am a fiscal and moral conservative, which by today's standards, makes me a f*****t.

I am heterosexual, which now makes me a homophobe.

I am mostly non-union, which makes me a t*****r to the working class and an ally of big business.

I was baptized a Christian, which now labels me as an infidel.

I am retired, which makes me useless.

I think and I reason, therefore, I doubt much that the main stream media tells me, which must make me a reactionary.

I am proud of my heritage, which makes me a xenophobe.

I value my safety and that of my family and I appreciate the police and the legal system, which makes me a right-wing extremist.

I believe in hard work, fair play, and fair compensation according to each individual's merits, which today makes me an anti-socialist.

I (and most of the folks I know), acquired a fair education without student loan debts and little or no debt, which makes me some kind of an odd underachiever

I believe in the defense and protection of my country and I honor those who served in the Armed Forces, which now makes me a right wing-militant.

Please help me come to terms with the new me... because I'm just not sure who I am anymore!

Funny ... it’s all just taken place over the last 10 years; prior to which I had no confusion or delusions about myself.

As if all this nonsense wasn’t enough to deal with ...

Now I’m not even sure which toilet to go into!

Don't Let The Past Be Considered "Not PC"

Or that 9/11 was just some people who did something!

PASS THIS ON

General Eisenhower Warned Us.

It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.

He did this because he said in words to this effect:

'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened'

This week, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.

It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the, six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, and 1,900 Catholic priests Who were 'murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated' while many in the world looked the other way!

Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.

This e-mail is intended to reach 400 million people! Be a link in the memorial chain and help distribute this around the world.

How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center

'NEVER HAPPENED',

Because it offends some Muslims???

Or some other people whom feel offended? Or decide the past is not "politically" correct?

Do not just delete this message; it will take only a minute to pass this along.

I think I need help. The wife left with two of our grandkids to go to the movie, and I sit here struggling with what to do with this mess. I know I should relish in it because those babies are such a blessing.
But the house is hammered! Stuff everywhere! Toys, clothes, dirty dishes.

I'm thinking that I'm going to do a minimal straightening up, and go to Lowe's counting my blessings all the way.
I'm not even mad at the dog for chewing the end off of the water hose, which is why I'm going to Lowe's today.

But.......the house is a mess!

Quite a story! What you experienced in your "death" sounds as though it was morbid. If you could or would send me a Private Message revealing what you witnessed, I would greatly appreciate it and you need not fear judgement or exposure. Without knowing your experience, I would have to say that church really IS limited because you're not there sharing your story and testimony. Someone may have a story of their own that might make an impression on you! If your not there, you will never know who you could have blessed or who might have blessed you. I'm sure you know all of this already but it's my reasonable duty to God to tell you. And I have. I would really like to know what you saw or experienced though.

sisboombaa,
If you'll never find God in church, will you find him in a roadhouse? Jesus taught in the temple even at 12 years old. That WAS church back then. There are 2 sides to every coin. People wanted to drink alcohol and they did, prohibition or not. Gave rise to people like Al Capone. So, prohibition was a failure.

Flip that coin and here are some "sobering" facts;


In the US, one person is k**led every 39 minutes by a drunk driver.
Everyday 36 people die and nearly 700 are injured due to accidents caused by drunk drivers.
Nearly half of all teenage fatalities are caused due to drunk driving.
More males than females drive while intoxicated. According to statistics around 81 percent of all drunk drivers are men.
In 2007, alcohol-related deaths were 15, 387, which is approximately 37 percent of deaths that occurred in the United States.
The top five states with the highest number of alcohol-related deaths are Texas, Florida, Illinois, California and Pennsylvania.

Just take 2007 as a standard and multiply times 11 years. That's 169, 257 deaths from alcohol related accidents in 11 years. That's pretty sad too.

Church is where you find people who are not perfect but are at least trying to live according to the Bible and the teachings of Jesus. They dev**e time each week to go to church to worship and learn about Him. What is so wrong with that?

It's an example of institutionalizing. The "stamp out smoking" campaign began as a way to break the power of "big tobacco", which was successful, then morphed into a way for the Federal Government to get it's claws into every State and every corner of every State, by tying non smoking policies to funding.

Government labs spent a great deal of time gathering "evidence" of the evils of tobacco, doing a lot of junk science and cute "show and tell" episodes for Congress ( probably using puppets to keep them from drifting off ). The various cancer societies realized that the anti-smoking agenda was a gold mine, as did the Congress and State Legislatures, which justified huge "sin taxes" on tobacco by citing the junk science previously mentioned.

Local, State and the Federal Government, brings in 100's of billions annually with the tobacco sin taxes, and uses 1/10 of 1% of those proceeds for the purposes stated as the "reason" for the tax. The States taxes were for various projects, like my own State citing a need to build a State wide level one trauma system. My State has the exact same trauma system it had 10 years ago, when it doubled it's tobacco sin tax. The Federal money will get you a list of "support" and a c**pon for nicotine patches, which is all you'll get, even though the huge tobacco sin tax was supposed to compensate the health insurance industry for tobacco related illnesses severe drain on it's resources AND provide treatment for those addicted to tobacco.

Smoking is bad, because the Government says it is. The next "anti" pogrom, to further increase revenues, will be the campaign against fat people. The over weight person who also drinks and smokes...............is thoroughly f*cked.