Lazy Spendthrift Generation Y? But Who Spends All of the Gov’t Revenue? May 15, 2006
A day after Hillary Clinton lashed out on Generation Y’s work ethic, her daughter, Chelsea, called to complain. Clinton apologized and didn’t mean to convey the impression that they don’t work hard.
Backing away from her assertion that the current generation is lazy, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Sunday that she simply wanted to “set the bar high” when she told an audience last week that young people today “think work is a four-letter word.”
Flexo of Consumerism Commentary mentioned that Chelsea is a Gen Y’er that worked hard for that money, just like every other child of super-popular people. Maybe not the super-popular (Paris and Nicole come to mind), but there seem to be plenty of Generation Y of the super-rich that work hard. Both Bill Gates and Warren Buffett (number 1 and 2 richest people in the world) vow that their children will not receive an inheritance to encourage them to make their own way in the world as are Gen Y’ers like Chelsea Clinton, Jamie Johnson and Nicole Buffett. It’s good to see that there are rich people who want to raise hard working, responsible citizens of the world.
‘IRA’ of Inchoate Random Abstractions, also posted about Gen Y’ers working hard. Although some Gen Y’ers have a sense of entitlement, but I have to agree that we (Gen X and Y) will have to pay for the boomer genration’s over-spending habits. Who’s going to end up paying for the $9trillion National Debt?
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Chided by Daughter, Clinton Says Youth Are Not Lazy
By ANNE E. KORNBLUT and RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, NY Times
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