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   It might seem easy to say, “you get what you vote for,” to the   
   millions of young voters who supported President Obama and now   
   can’t find work.   
      
   But, with a record number of young Americans becoming homeless,   
   blaming the victim of President Obama’s well-crafted rhetoric   
   doesn’t seem right.   
      
   In one of his last campaign speeches, President Obama told a   
   crowd of people at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, “We   
   tried our ideas; they worked. The economy grew. We created jobs.”   
      
   This sham President Obama cooked-up is nothing short of immoral   
   for the millions of young Americans that have been living in   
   Obama’s economic hell the last four years.   
      
   The Democratic Party renders themselves as the party of   
   compassion, yet under any measurement, young Americans have   
   never been more economically miserable under any other President   
   in recorded history.   
      
   And, the misery continues to worsen. A recent article in The New   
   York Times reported that young people are “the new face of a   
   national homeless population, one that poverty experts and case   
   workers say is growing.” And according to Andrea Bailey, the   
   executive director of the Community Food and Outreach Center, it   
   is becoming increasingly more common for young people to seek   
   help from homeless shelters.   
      
   The cities of Los Angeles and Boston attempted to count the   
   exact number of young Americans that have been forced to move   
   onto the streets. In 2011, it was estimated that 3,600 young   
   Americans were living on the streets of Los Angeles. The number   
   rises significantly if you count those temporarily sleeping on   
   their friends’ couch.   
      
   The amount of young Americans in Boston seeking shelter   
   represented 12 percent of the total homeless population in 2011,   
   up 3 percentage points from the previous year. But they fear   
   that this isn’t anywhere close to the actual number of young   
   Americans occupying their streets. “It’s a significant enough   
   jump to know that it’s also just the tip of the iceberg,” said   
   Jim Greene, director of emergency shelters for the Boston Public   
   Health Commission.   
      
   This news is incredibly disheartening, but should we be   
   surprised? No. While President Obama boasted from his ivory   
   towers on the campaign trail that over 4.5 million jobs have   
   been created in the last four years, young Americans have had a   
   drastically different experience.   
      
   In the last four years under President Obama, 397,000 youth jobs   
   were destroyed and youth unemployment averaged 17.5 percent--the   
   highest level in recorded history. 53 percent of recent   
   graduates are unemployed or underemployed, and young Americans   
   currently represent 40 percent of the total unemployed   
   population.   
      
   While recent numbers suggest youth unemployment is going down,   
   more young people continue to drop out of the work force. In the   
   month of November alone, 153,000 young Americans ages 20-24   
   completely gave up looking for work and the Labor Force   
   Participation rate dropped from 54.4 percent to 54.1 percent.   
      
   I guess they didn’t want anything to do with those 4.5 million   
   private sector jobs that President Obama claimed he created.   
      
   Youth unemployment is a serious problem. Homelessness is even   
   more unfathomable. But the real concern lies in the mentality   
   that this type of environment is creating among Millennials.   
      
   Anyone forced to live a life on the streets lives a life of   
   survival. Instead of looking for a job, you’re looking for the   
   next meal. Instead of helping businesses grow and create jobs   
   for these young people, President Obama has been satisfied   
   growing the welfare state and providing the next meal. The   
   government food stamp program has grown 50 percent during his   
   term.   
      
   The Obama economy is taking the wind out of the sails of these   
   young Americans fresh out of college who truly wanted to start   
   their careers. This President and this economy are breeding a   
   new generation of entitlement and dependency by letting young   
   people believe that it is acceptable to solely rely on the   
   government.   
      
   But this won’t get them very far. Young people were sold a bill   
   of goods this election, and they bought it--even after the last   
   four years of economic hell. It’s only downhill from here.   
      
   Conservatives have failed to step in and articulate the message   
   that more freedom and less government spending create more jobs   
   and more independence for young people. Until they do so--or   
   until our economy totally fails--young Americans will continue   
   to fall into the Obama entitlement trap.   
      
   With no jobs and nowhere to turn but to President Obama, an   
   overwhelming majority of the population will be in favor of a   
   dependency-centered, debt-ridden government. We see it happening   
   in Europe, and look where it’s gotten them. We’d be naive to   
   think it wouldn’t happen here. Conservative leaders have the   
   moral obligation to propose a brighter future for young   
   Americans and our country to ensure it doesn’t.   
      
       
      
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