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I really enjoyed this article and thought I would share with you all for discussion and to those that alo agree with it, a good read. Hopefully those that look at things from a different perspective will find this to be at least enlightening if nothing else.
 
Re: The Slacker Mandate and the Safety-Pin Generation Read more at: http://www.natio

In a time when the economy is in the tank and starting your professional life is more difficult and expensive than ever before, I can see why it's popular.
 
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A bunch of uninteresting and ignorant crap.
 
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The expansion of employer sponsored coverage to individuals to age 26 is why there will never be enough young voters signing up for ACA plans.
 
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Being an adult totally sucks. I was informed of that fact from a young age. I think these little snowflake people are so idealistic that they really think they can change the very basics of life on Earth- such as the fact that you have to take on more and more responsibility as you get older in order to be successful. They forget that this is part of the American dream. A house with a white picket fence and 2.5 kids does not come to you for free, courtesy of the government.
 
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The following is the crux of the matter:

That’s because most establishment Republicans in Washington, D.C., are resigned to keeping it. Once the feds hand out a sugary piece of cradle-to-grave entitlement candy, it’s almost impossible to snatch it back.

PPACA is likely to be "repealed" in name only, the federal take over and means tested subsidy of "private" medical care insurance is here to stay. The most ridiculous part of PPACA was the mandate to drop most actuarial risk factors from having any bearing on "private" individual medical care premium rates. Yet age, which is definitely a pre-existing condition (aka actuarial risk factor), can be used to triple "basic" premium rates.
 
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A bunch of uninteresting and ignorant crap.

Basically, yes. The generation of windmill tilters is complaining about other generations, and it is hilarious.
 
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Too argumentative for my taste, seems to be what Conservatives want to hear about Liberals by other Conservatives more than anything else.
 
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Thanks for posting this, Renae. I was unaware that some states have extended coverage to "kids" of 31. From your article:

In Wisconsin, the slacker mandate covered not only adult children, but also the children of those “children” if they lived in single-parent homes. In New Jersey, champions of the provision claimed it would help cover 100,000 uninsured young adults. But health-policy researcher Nathan Benefield of the Commonwealth Foundation reported that “only 6 percent of that estimate has been realized” in its first two years. “The primary reason — health insurance is still too expensive.”

That has only gotten worse, of course, as Obamacare’s other expensive mandates — especially guaranteed issue for those with preexisting conditions — sabotage the private individual market for health insurance, leaving young and healthy people with fewer choices, higher premiums, and crappier plans. The solution is not more mandates, but fewer; more competition, not less.

Obamacare Slacker Mandate Coddles Millennials, Harms Economy | National Review
 
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It's not "safety pin", it's "diaper pin"... :mrgreen:
 
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A bunch of uninteresting and ignorant crap.

I'm sorry you feel that way, the article gives perspective shared by more than a few on my side of the isle, that you dismiss out views outright is why the GOP dominated the election on the state, local and national levels.
 
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I'm sorry you feel that way, the article gives perspective shared by more than a few on my side of the isle, that you dismiss out views outright is why the GOP dominated the election on the state, local and national levels.

No, why we lost is because the DNC selected one of the most unelectable candidates as their nominee. A candidate who was seen as a liar and a corporatetist while running against a somehow populist candidate. I don't see how so many Americans could believe that Trump is a populist, but hey, I never claimed America was full of geniuses.
 
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Basically, yes. The generation of windmill tilters is complaining about other generations, and it is hilarious.

Every generation has said that the youngun's are entitled, lazy do-gooders that expect everything to be spoon-fed to them. We were hearing this garbage from our elders and now people my age are saying it about the kids coming up today. It boils down to a bunch up tight older farts that need more fiber in their diets that are just jealous of youth.
 
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In a time when the economy is in the tank and starting your professional life is more difficult and expensive than ever before, I can see why it's popular.

I think the youth has no idea about terrible times. Seriously, kids today walking around (nope, let me rephrase that) driving super nice new expensive cars around, talking on their $500 iphones, wearing designer clothes and jewelry. I mean, have you looked around lately? Children at the age of 10/12 are carrying designer purses that cost more than all the money I was ever given for back to school shopping. These kids have no idea what it is to actually have to struggle to make ends meet, to get a job, to buy a house etc. When I went to college, no one in my family (no siblings that were older, no parents, grand parents, cousins etc. went to college). I'm not that old for crying out loud. And I did it all on $10 bucks and hour working 30 hours a week and going to school.

And, I lived on my own and not one penny from my parents was ever given. And, even I thought I had it pretty good. It is all about mentality. The colleges, the liberal media, and those who want to hold people back are the ones who have created this nonsense. More children today can go to college / do go to college than ever before. Time to put on your big boy panties and stop whining about what you don't have. Try being appreciative for what you do have.
 
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I can't disagree, Hillary was a poor candidate and yet millions still voted for her. Go figure.
 
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I can't disagree, Hillary was a poor candidate and yet millions still voted for her. Go figure.

Because we were frightened of having one of the most unfit men in history lead this nation. Guess we now get to see how the world will burn.
 
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Yes, rich kids probably don't know what it's like to struggle. I'm not sure what that has to do with the average millennial. Plenty of millennials entered the job market during the deepest recession of any of our lifetimes and will see their earning potential negatively affected for years because of it.
 
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Because we were frightened of having one of the most unfit men in history lead this nation. Guess we now get to see how the world will burn.

We had that for 8 years. The Republic has survived.
 
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We had that for 8 years. The Republic has survived.

Irregardless of if you agree with the man, Obama has proven himself fit for the office.

Trump, was never, and will never, be fit for the office.
 
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Irregardless of if you agree with the man, Obama has proven himself fit for the office.

Trump, was never, and will never, be fit for the office.

I completely disagree with you, between his inability to compromise with the GOP, his arrogance, his use of "A pen and a phone", his demagoguery on social issue and his insistence on interjecting himself into issues no president would have entered before, Obama proved himself to be unfit for the task. I am not a fan of Trump, and I worry he'll be a 4 year and out mess, but to call Obama fit for office is something I cannot bring myself to do. I believe he was a very detrimental force in office, and frankly I believe he was not fit to serve.
 
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