Ed Hafner

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[Dean Cain @RealDeanCain]

Total clarity. @WesleyHuntTX speaks absolute truth!

[Kevin Williams @wxbywilliams]

How inconvenient...

[Captain Rochester @CaptRochester]

🤔

[Kevin Williams @wxbywilliams]

@SenatorCooney Wonderful. Now Mr. Chairman of Transportation, can we please focus? We were out on Rt 250, Atlantic Ave and elsewhere today and encountered more craters than the surface of the moon. It's dangerous for drivers! Why does New York have the worst roads AND the highest taxes?

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

Good for him - what a joke.

[JamminLu @JamminLu]

I SAID WHAT I SAID….

[David Khait @David_Khait]

Without organizers, who are paid and funded by foreign oligarchs or progressive donors, there wouldn’t be protests

I briefly expose how organized everything is as organizers pack up after a protest

[Wescott America @WescottAmerica]

One country. One people. One future. Unity is how we secure America. 🇺🇸

We must come together and bring back the America we all loved. #explore #fyp

[Ed Hafner @RHcoach]

@PoupartNFL Alain, any idea why they haven’t asked to meet with Mike McCarthy? I mean with the obvious connection I would think he would be included in this massive coaching search.

[Ed Hafner @RHcoach]

@ArmandoSalguero Any interest in McCarthy?

[Ed Hafner @RHcoach]

Rookies showing out today!

[Field Yates @FieldYates]

This is absolutely sensational 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Hodgetwins @hodgetwins]

Wow

[Ed Hafner @RHcoach]

@gpatterson828 YES!

[Ed Hafner @RHcoach]

@WHLeavitt YES!!!

[Ed Hafner @RHcoach]

@PoupartNFL I realize that because of his contract, Tua probably isn't going anywhere but that doesn't mean that he has to start. He could be a very expensive Mentor/backup. A NEW coach could start either his chosen drafted QB or maybe Ewers. Could that be another approach to 2026?

[Ed Hafner @RHcoach]

@PoupartNFL Alain, I love both the All Dolphins Podcast and the Dolphins Collective. Since the D has been playing a lot better lately, have you changed how you feel about Weaver as a possible HC candidate? I love the toughness & energy he brings.

[Ed Hafner @RHcoach]

@PoupartNFL Can you explain why we have a Cap hit for Terron Armstead in 26? He retired, When I retire my company doesn't keep paying me. Also Jonnu Smith who we traded? Seems crazy.

[Vickie @VSC3960]

@RepJasonCrow