President Obama’s second term has undoubtedly been scandal-ridden, but ultimately it won’t be the POTUS that bears the brunt of his consequences — it will be young people.
For Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), the despair and depression that the led to the city of Detroit filing for bankruptcy is the perfect example of how the future looks for young people. With programs, like Obamacare, that rely on funding from Millennials, youth don’t have much of a future to look forward to.
“It’s very interesting that the people who have been hurt the very most by the President’s policies are the people who are in your generation right now,” Bachmann said to a crowded room full of young people at the Young America’s Foundation conference Wednesday morning. “That’s not success. That’s failure.”
Speaking of failure, Bachmann blamed the Motor City’s financial defeat on the “little steps” they took in the beginning.
“They engaged in liberalism, they spent more money then they had,” she said, as she also encouraged the young people in the room to use Detroit as an example of what not to do.
And Obamacare is off to the same start. The President’s healthcare plan is essentially planning for failure, according to Bachmann, and besides not being a gateway to success, it is also “waging a war on the young.”
“That’s also looking at what you’re looking at now with young people,” the Congresswoman said. “Because President Obama has decided in the area of Obamacare that in order for this disastrous healthcare program to work, he has to have you all pay for it. He has to have you buy a policy that you can’t afford and that you don’t want.”
The fact that the President relies so much on Millennials to clean up after his many messes is a bit ironic to the Bachmann.
“You have the population that put Obama in office — young people — and yet it’s young people that are getting shafted at every turn,” she said.
