Fw: The blind generation

Couldn't have said it better myself, spread it around. Bob Came in 'Rich Text'
one, or part of word, per line. My computer auto-changed to 'Plain Text' and normal
appearance. Edited out excessive blank spaces so it would print.

Well said and so true the education system is to blame and that system needs to
change before there are enough votes to put us down the socialist road being
considered by this emerging generation. -- Jim Solomon

The Blind Generation
This was written by a college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren who's in grad
school for her MBA. It's a short article but definitely worth a read.
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Lake Nokomis, Minn. 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 unappreciation 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 electorates 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? The answer is this, my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast.
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 communism. 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, and it's
spreading like a plague."