[fintstone]

I would have to disagree a bit. When I entered the job market in the 70's, it was much worse in my area than the recent recession. That did not give me the luxury of staying home in Mommy's basement playing video games and watching TV for a decade...waiting for better times. I had to get out and get a job and support myself (and eventually my own family). My parents never gave me a penny after my mid teens. By the time I entered my 30's, I had worked 15 years, provided for a wife and kids for a decade and had over 10 years of service in the military. I had bought several homes (to live in as i followed my work to different areas) and still owned a couple (rental). I had gone to school at night and weekends and worked multiple jobs to pay for it (or worked nights and weekends while I went to school in the daytime). ..and earned a couple of degrees.

Whether it is the fault of parents or the fault if millennials...or both, is hard to say...but we have had depressions and recessions before...and everyone just rolled up their sleeves and worked harder. The current mentality seems something new. the fact that a guy who walked to worked in a post above received national attention, thousands of dollars and a new car tells me that the change is huge. That would have not even been noticed (or rare) when I was a young man. I used to walk/hitchhike 20-30 miles late at night just to get home after attending extracurriculars at school at 14 and older) and walked almost 6 miles each way to my first real job at 14. Of course I walked even farther (alone) to work in the fields when I was younger than that...but it was not every day...only when they needed extra help early and late in the growing season. The entire premise that we have jobs that Americans will not do (so we need illegals) while so many are unemployed and/or on social welfare tells me something is bad wrong.