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2018-10-20 Home Front: Culture Wars
America's Ghost Legions of Idle Men
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Posted by Besoeker 2018-10-20 01:18|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 Don't consider 'off the books'. Someone is making money on the streets of Chicago but I doubt they turn up on the employment stats.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-10-20 07:03||   2018-10-20 07:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Why is it necessary for someone to 'do' something all the time?
Posted by ed in texas 2018-10-20 07:44||   2018-10-20 07:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Imperor Misha has a comment
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-10-20 07:49||   2018-10-20 07:49|| Front Page Top

#4 In his new book, Men Without Work, Eberstadt describes this as a deep moral and social crisis which is passing almost unnoticed by politicians, pundits, business leaders and economists.

The problem is how long it takes to get a book published. This was obviously written in the "Good Old Days™" of the Obama era
Posted by Frank G 2018-10-20 08:57||   2018-10-20 08:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Why contribute to a society that despises them?
Posted by Rex Mundi 2018-10-20 11:46||   2018-10-20 11:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Why contribute to a society that despises them?

Prophetic.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-10-20 12:16||   2018-10-20 12:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Basically they did nothing much.

Yeah, they need to be real men and work really hard so that the privileged can continue to pay for their EBT cards and "disabilty" (wink!).

Then, if they're really lucky, they will be deemed worthy of hooking up with Trigglypuff or her Vibrant! equivalent, while making themselves available for future #MeToo campaigns and/or divorce rape as needed.

Man up, dammit!
Posted by charger 2018-10-20 12:20||   2018-10-20 12:20|| Front Page Top

#8 #4 Thats what I thought too.
Posted by warthogswife 2018-10-20 12:28||   2018-10-20 12:28|| Front Page Top

#9 It will be interesting to see how much of a phenomenon this is in 2020.
Posted by trailing wife 2018-10-20 13:53||   2018-10-20 13:53|| Front Page Top

#10 "A third of them have used illegal drugs in the past year." there's your answer. The numbers are only increasing. Men and women. Sad to say and sad to see. Every town and every city USA.EMS Ambulance and emergency room services going broke now. Small towns can't handle the costs now. I believe it was the mayor of Baltimore city took a tour of a poor area and complained of the smell of death caught on a open mike.
Posted by Dale 2018-10-20 15:05||   2018-10-20 15:05|| Front Page Top

#11 A third of them have used illegal drugs in the past year.
This means little without a comparison to the cohort of their compatriots who are employed: what %-age of those men have used illegal drugs in the past year?
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-10-20 16:28||   2018-10-20 16:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Just curious - how many are minorities? Given that there a no headlines, I imagine that a majority of these men are white. Because if they were black or Hispanic or anything else, you'd have the press screaming about it.
Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2018-10-20 20:06||   2018-10-20 20:06|| Front Page Top

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