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Wow this article couldn't miss the point by a wider margin if it tried. Unionization reinforces seniority hierarchy, which hurts young people. The current soci

Wow this article couldn't miss the point by a wider margin if it tried. Unionization reinforces seniority hierarchy, which hurts young people. The current social security and medicare system reinforces a young-funds-old mentality, which hurts young people. The higher education system, which has been bloated after years of public subsidy, requires normal people to take on debt, which hurts young people. Deficit spending leads to future taxation, which hurts young people. Conservative, free-market types have been saying all of this for well over 30 years. Government support of inefficient institutions causes them to become more expensive and even more inefficient, and the after a while everyone becomes dependent on the support. But when everyone is dependent on government support, then there's no one paying for the support, and the whole system comes crashing down. And here we are in 2012, watching it happen in higher education, in health care, in housing, and in state and local governments all around the country. What exactly is the author proposing as a solution; some sort of uber-occupy-wall-street movement that will flip over cars and demand a new wave of the sorts demonstrably unsustainable institutions we have now? These industries are BEGGING to be liberalized (in the original sense of the word). Ron Paul is a bit of a lunatic, but a path forward that truly expands opportunities for young people is going to look a lot more like a Paul-ian utopia than a left-ist one.

bluedanieru 15y ago
America has been exclusively electing irresponsible assholes to public office for the last 60 years though. It is the last nation you would want to hold up as an example for anything, no matter what your agenda, left or right. There are plenty of great public education, public health, and public pension systems implemented in the world. That none of them are in the US has nothing to do with the idea of it, but rather who was in charge of getting it done (i.e. ultimately, the American population itself).

bluedanieru 15y ago

America has been exclusively electing irresponsible assholes to public office for the last 60 years though. It is the last nation you would want to hold up as an example for anything, no matter what your agenda, left or right. There are plenty of great public education, public health, and public pension systems implemented in the world. That none of them are in the US has nothing to do with the idea of it, but rather who was in charge of getting it done (i.e. ultimately, the American population itself).