Oh Hell, They Don't Vote Anyway
Just caught the chatter on "This Week" about HRC's May 12 speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce convention- the one where she scolds our generation for our laziness.
Verbally boxing our ears for our overindulgent, spoiled lifestyle, she let fly that "a lot of kids don't know what work is. They think work is a four-letter word." She went on to say that "America didn't happen by accident. A lot of people worked really hard. They've got to do their part, too" after berating us for expecting $50, ooo and $75,000 year jobs right out of college. I'm not sure who Hillary's sample is here, because the young people I know are too busy volunteering in nursing homes or elementary schools and working on research and theses to be comparing potential salaries with a microscope, but I suspect it might be skewed by the only young person making that kind of money right out of school that I know of: as the NY Post article points out, Chelsea Clinton, now at McKinsey in New York, is being rewarded for her hard work to the tune of six figures.
Apparently among the more "centrist" (read: GOP) postures Hillary's adopting is cranky, Bob Dole-esque rhetoric that kids today have no work ethic, but I have a hard time imagining such a message resonating in an economy where everyone is working hard to make ends meet- and in an America where parents love and respect their children. It's Bush league politics, too (pun intended), to play one demographic up by scapegoating another. Apparently Hillary thinks the quickest path to the White House is on the backs of young people- I hope she likes knocking on doors, making phone calls, and registering voters herself.
Verbally boxing our ears for our overindulgent, spoiled lifestyle, she let fly that "a lot of kids don't know what work is. They think work is a four-letter word." She went on to say that "America didn't happen by accident. A lot of people worked really hard. They've got to do their part, too" after berating us for expecting $50, ooo and $75,000 year jobs right out of college. I'm not sure who Hillary's sample is here, because the young people I know are too busy volunteering in nursing homes or elementary schools and working on research and theses to be comparing potential salaries with a microscope, but I suspect it might be skewed by the only young person making that kind of money right out of school that I know of: as the NY Post article points out, Chelsea Clinton, now at McKinsey in New York, is being rewarded for her hard work to the tune of six figures.
Apparently among the more "centrist" (read: GOP) postures Hillary's adopting is cranky, Bob Dole-esque rhetoric that kids today have no work ethic, but I have a hard time imagining such a message resonating in an economy where everyone is working hard to make ends meet- and in an America where parents love and respect their children. It's Bush league politics, too (pun intended), to play one demographic up by scapegoating another. Apparently Hillary thinks the quickest path to the White House is on the backs of young people- I hope she likes knocking on doors, making phone calls, and registering voters herself.
posted by Katie at 9:51 AM
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