Are you surprised? Many millennials don't even know or care who their fathers are.....I know quite a few. They don't care where they came from or anything culturally connected. With this attitude goes the loss of history, collapse of wisdom and the ability to repeat the mistakes of the past exponentially. Very sad- ----- Original Message ----- From: G. Furness via [mailto:nybrooklyn@rootsweb.com] To: nybrooklyn@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 13:16:57 -0400 Subject: > Is this a sign of the times or a priority of the "text-me generation." This is a sign of Republican comtempt for education in general and knowledge in particular and follows continuing budget cuts in the name of "austerity" and devil take the hindmost since at least Ronald Reagan. The chickens are coming home to roost. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYBROOKLYN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

We're talking about legislative and public policy decisions here. Depending on whose definitions you use, millennials are 15-35 years old. Some aren't even old enough to vote. Many graduated into a recession and the ensuing "jobless recovery," and are underemployed or got a late start to their careers. "Millennials" are not, as a whole, the people holding office, though of course there are some who do. How can you possibly place the primary blame for the decisions of legislators and public office holders on a generation just coming of age? The average age of people in Congress is somewhere around 60. Are you sure it's millennials screwing these things up? (FWIW, the Arizona Secretary of State named in the original article would be considered part of Generation X. I suspect she knows who her father is.) Certainly my generation has its fair share of problems, but you can't blame us for EVERYTHING! Kathleen (29 and caring quite a bit about where I came from!) On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 1:53 PM, jwilcox via <nybrooklyn@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Are you surprised? Many millennials don't even know or care who their > fathers are.....I know quite a few. They don't care where they came > from or > anything culturally connected. > With this attitude goes the loss of history, collapse of wisdom and the > ability to repeat the mistakes of the past exponentially. > Very sad- > > > Is this a sign of the times or a priority of the "text-me > generation." > >