The cream always rises to the top, no bullshit about it. I've got no degree, but I've worked my ass off, make more than a lot of people who do have degrees. I've take the time to get the right technical certifications along the way, and I'm always willing to put the work in. The problem I see with younger people is that they feel entitled to a high paying job, they don't want to work for it. They think that because they are coming out of college, they should make 50-60k per year, some think they should be paid more. If you are good at what you do, you will get your foot in the door, and work your way up, but you have to be willing to work. Nobody owes us anything in this life.

The cream always rises to the top, no bullshit about it. I've got no degree, but I've worked my ass off, make more than a lot of people who do have degrees. I've take the time to get the right technical certifications along the way, and I'm always willing to put the work in. The problem I see with younger people is that they feel entitled to a high paying job, they don't want to work for it. They think that because they are coming out of college, they should make 50-60k per year, some think they should be paid more. If you are good at what you do, you will get your foot in the door, and work your way up, but you have to be willing to work. Nobody owes us anything in this life.

crazy videos...... what are they preparing for anyway? the day that the entitlement checks stop flowing after our government defaults?

Who died before they could draw their Social Security? KEEP PASSING THIS AROUND UNTIL EVERY ONE HAS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO READ IT... THIS IS SURE SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!!!! THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH THE GOVERNMENT'S CALCULATION OF AVAILABLE SOCIAL SECURITY IS THEY FORGOT TO FIGURE IN THE PEOPLE WHO DIED BEFORE THEY EVER COLLECTED A SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK!!! WHERE DID THATMONEY GO? Remember, not only did you and I contribute to Social Security, but your employer did, too. It totals 15% of your income before taxes. If you averaged only $30K over your working life, that's close to $220,500. Read that again! Did you see where the Government paid in one single penny? We are talking about the money you and your employer put in a Government bank to insure you and I that we would have a retirement check from the money we put in, not the Government. Now they are calling the money we put in an ENTITLEMENT when we reach the age to take it back. If you calculate the future invested value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer's contribution) at a simple 5% interest (less than what the Government pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working you'd have $892,919.98. If you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years (until you're 95 if you retire at age 65) and that's with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit! If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you'd have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month. If you have a deceased spouses who died in their 50's -- their S.S. money will never have one cent drawn from what they paid into S.S. all their lives over the past 30 years! THE FOLKS IN WASHINGTON HAVE PULLED OFF A BIGGER PONZI SCHEME THAN BERNIE MADOFF EVER DID. Entitlement my foot, I paid cash for my social security insurance! Just because they borrowed the money for other government spending, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout!! Remember Congressional benefits? --- free healthcare, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days. Now that's welfare!!! And they have the nerve to call my social security retirement payments entitlements?!? We're "broke" and we can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, or Homeless. Yet in the last few months we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile and Turkey. And now Pakistan......home of bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS... if not TRILLIONS of DOLLARS are unaccounted for!!! They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives, and now, when it's time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the government borrow from it in the first place? It was supposed to be in a locked box, not part of the general fund. Sad isn't it. 99% of people won't have the guts to forward this. I'm in the 1% -- I just did.