Brexit will you be increasing your prepping?

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You are listening to way too much media propaganda SS.

There is a percentage of our population that will always be on food stamps. They always have been and they always will be. There is also a portion of our population that is not just unemployed, they are unemployable. Not working is their career choice. Almost 1/3 of our secondary school students make the choice to walk away from a free education every year and generally eliminate themselves from the labor force.

Student loans for college are a choice, not a necessity, and they have very liberal repayment terms when they are used. Fact is, there are caps on how much one can borrow just to insure the loans are repayable. The hundreds of thousands of dollar debts you hear about are for those that chose to be professional students, borrowed the max for years, then dropped out of law school or medical school, majored in areas like are history or psychology, where the pay would never support them, then defaulted on the loans and amassed decades of interest and penalties.

Staying in a dead end job when you have a degree is also a choice. There are good paying jobs going unfilled in my area.

Did I mention that unemployment was back to pre-recession levels and pay was above those levels. I had a whole host of friends graduating sons and daughters just this past month and to a number they were all fully employed in their fields before graduating. My son graduates next semester and has a contract fixed for two years from now when he exits grad school. His employer is picking up his grad school costs.

Once again, success is directly related to effort and preparation.

And when you hear about 97 million Americans being out of the work force take into consideration that they are counting all persons over 18 even if they are in school, disabled or over age 65 and on pension. Us retirees are becoming a larger and larger part of the population, so if they are counting us they better reevaluate their numbers. Both sides of our political spectrum use the numbers to meet their needs.

The price of medical insurance is due to government interference. I had good coverage at a reasonable rate before the socialists "fixed" the medical system for us. I am out of that system now so I will leave it to the younger generation to fix that problem.

Now that we have that cleared up what do you propose as the answer to the real or imagined problems? You are not going to fix them.

If you did someone would come along and mess them up again. And there is that situation where if you fixed them to your notion there would be the 99% of the population that came with torches and pitch forks to burn you at the stake.

Discussion of opinions is fine, do that. As I said earlier, I have been watching the opinions being discussed by the doom-sayers since the Cuban Missile Crisis and not a single opinion has been proven worth the time it takes to listen. No one here has come up with anything I have nor heard decades in the past.