Pickles by Brian Crane for June 28, 2016

This imho is because of the tech advances. My parents didn’t have cable bills, nor cell phones, internet, etc. Add it all up and it costs my household about $4,000 a year.. over a 47 yr working life that is 188,000… aka most or all of a reasonable house mortgage.

Could it be that the older generation just spent their money more wisely, buying homes instead of electronics, and would have laughed at the idea of paying 100+ a month for cell phone service?

Indeed. We’re going cable free soon.. internet and cheap cell only.

Kids around here have more stuff than I had at their age. If I’d have asked for the latest “thing”, I’d have got a clip ‘round the ear – and I don’t mean an earring!.Less discipline, too.

Let’s not forget that no matter how much we yell, this generation will simply not stay off of our lawn!

If her generation is whinier than the parents, then I’d blame it on the parents who allow them to whine.

Other foolish current day things: bottled water & $4-$5 coffee,

The current younger generation are self-centered narcissists, for the most part. There are a few well developed kids that are self-reliant and don’t bitch and whine about their current state of affairs, but not many.

well if this generation would stop wasting its money buying all sorts of frivolous things they’d have what their parents have. Some of us were brought up by parents who lived through the 1929 Depression and knew the value of saving and living without those luxury items kids now days feel they must have. We raised our kids like we were but guessed we missed the mark because one of them is always crying poor.

It called ’ The Generation Gap ’…

well it can’t always keep getting better and better, somewhere the bubble has to pop and drop then things start climbing again.

But its like the people who think a cell phone is the most important thing in their life, even if unemployed. I have to have a phone to find a job, blah blah…home phone, way cheaper in my area…$49.00 a year. Mobile phone cheapest plan $60 dollars a year. Its all about priorities I say.

We, the baby boomers, raised a bunch of self-centered, whiny brats and they are passing that on to their kids. It is our own fault.

I agree with a lot of what’s been said, especially about frivolous spending (I have no cable service, no wireless service, and I’m happy without it), but I think there are other factors in play here. One is the shrinking of the middle class, as wealth continues to transfer up to the top 10 percent of earners. Another big one is the absurd cost of higher education. I spent about $500 a semester for in-state college during 1983-1987. Today, that same school charges $4272 per semester in-state. And this is a cheap, “safety net” university. Crushing student loans are financially ruining a lot of twenty-somethings before they ever get out of school.

Methinks Melki has hit it right on the ol’ proverbial head !!!

I cannot abide whiners. I would not accept that behavior from my kids or my grandson. Even this youngest of my step-grandchildren who just turned 5, knows that such behavior is not tolerated.Complain if you want….but don’t whine !

Over the years I’ve had a few real whiners work for me. They didn’t last long.

This strip says a huge amount. Where is it written that you’re ENTITLED to be better off than your parents? “It’s not fair?”

Nobody is entitled to anything. Unless you invented or built the machines that do it, you did nothing to deserve clean water, electricity, the internet, automobiles or modern medicine. People immeasurably better than you in every way did it for you, and they charge you a token of what those luxuries are really worth. How much would you pay for a shot of antibiotic if you had an infection and it were the only shot left in the world?

A lot of us here in the UK start the blame with US teenage kids’ shows. These little darlings seem to have no respect for their parents who are far from poor……. these shows have the kids getting the better of their parents in nearly episode..It might be entertaining to watch but shows a bad example.

We are all entitled to whine every now and again. No matter what age we are!

But yes. It is annoying when somebody does it constantly.

xxx

I don’t know. Her parents are pretty whiny too.

I wonder about how much of it has to do with the parents not making their kids EARN what they have? If I wanted something, I had to WORK for it and pay for it myself. My first car, my boom box, records, CDs (and I don’t mean money), etc. My daughter may not have a “job” as most people define it, but she WORKS at home – laundry, dishes, cooking, organizing EVERYTHING (one of her favorite things to do). It is very tempting to GIVE your kids stuff that you couldn’t have as a kid, but can afford now. However, it is not doing your kids ANY good.

It’s not always the administrators. Do you know what football coaches earn? Far, far more than the professors. Sows where our priorities are – and why things are in such a mess.

“The Plutocrats have made it possible since they want everyone as real peons to work and die for them.”.Your imaginary plutocrats don’t want servants, just money. Everyone takes their own basest urges and projects them onto whomever they’re jealous of.

Every generation has it better than the previous one.They just don’t notice the improvements.Our air is cleaner.Our water is safer.Our doctors can cure more diseases.Postage is cheaper (for those who went from snail mail to email).People are freer.Despite how it feels, the streets are safer.Our computers are better.Our government is less tyrannical.Girls are prettier, boys too.

TV cable, cell phones, and Internet count as wealth. When we say a generation is better off than another, we don’t mean they die with more cash; we mean they spent more during their lives. And we don’t try to judge worthy expenditures versus frivolous ones.