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America Nears El Tipping Pointo

get real4 Wrote: Dec 06, 2012 10:32 AM
2. Helping the most vulnerable is a laudable goal. However, that is not what our welfare state is designed to do. It provides much more than what is necessary and underprovides to others. I personally know of individuals who have not work for years, if ever, and still have a flat screen TV bigger than my TV; kids who have portable game consoles, cell phones, etc. They live in a 3 bedroom apartment so everyone has their own room. That is insane when the father could be working, but claims disability because he is overweight.

I apologize to America's young people, whose dashed dreams and dim employment prospects I had laughed at, believing these to be a direct result of their voting for Obama.

On closer examination, it turns out that young voters, aged 18-29, overwhelmingly supported Romney. But only the white ones.

According to Pew Research, 54 percent of white voters under 30 voted for Romney and only 41 percent for Obama. That's the same percentage Reagan got from the entire white population in 1980. Even the Lena Dunham demographic -- white women under 30 -- slightly favored Romney.

Reagan got...

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