January 9, 2015—The rise of the libertarians and rise of millennials are largely the same phenomenon, and predictably both will be brow-beaten in establishment media circles.
Recently the Chicago Tribune ran an op-ed titled, “Millennials’ surprise: There isn’t an app to solve all problems.” Snarky enough to bait this Millennial to click on it! I doubt the Baby Boomer author John McCarron came up with it, but then again the snark continues…
McCarron’s opening line, followed by my reaction:
Poverty? Isn’t there an app for that?
Well, for Baby Boomers the answer apparently was—and still is—yes. That app is the “war” declared by Lyndon Johnson. No matter that the poverty rate has buoyed around 11-15 percent for nearly 50 years.
Is developing an app to fight poverty somehow less compassionate than letting the government take care of it?
McCarron half-apologizes for an $18 trillion debt, but doesn’t reflect deeply enough on his own generation’s political track record. Millennials sense the truth that America produces twice today what it did decades ago, but poverty still exists and for some groups (like the youngest Millennials) is actually getting worse. God forbid we should consider a different premise than our elders’ wisdom.
Read the whole thing here.
Recently the Chicago Tribune ran an op-ed titled, “Millennials’ surprise: There isn’t an app to solve all problems.” Snarky enough to bait this Millennial to click on it! I doubt the Baby Boomer author John McCarron came up with it, but then again the snark continues…
McCarron’s opening line, followed by my reaction:
Poverty? Isn’t there an app for that?
Well, for Baby Boomers the answer apparently was—and still is—yes. That app is the “war” declared by Lyndon Johnson. No matter that the poverty rate has buoyed around 11-15 percent for nearly 50 years.
Is developing an app to fight poverty somehow less compassionate than letting the government take care of it?
McCarron half-apologizes for an $18 trillion debt, but doesn’t reflect deeply enough on his own generation’s political track record. Millennials sense the truth that America produces twice today what it did decades ago, but poverty still exists and for some groups (like the youngest Millennials) is actually getting worse. God forbid we should consider a different premise than our elders’ wisdom.
Read the whole thing here.
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