American Millennials trail the pack

In a recent Fortune article the results of a survey seem to back up the observation that the age group born after 1980 in the US are simply ignorant when it comes to the basics necessary to succeed in life or a job.

Should Americans invest in and take care of "their own" before seeking workers from other countries?

The first thing I do in the morning when I wake up to get ready for work is turn on the news and watch/listen to it while I make coffee and breakfast. I like to keep myself informed of recent events. And yet I've found that most of my peers simply don't watch or care about the news at all.

I've also observed financial irresponsibility in most of my peers. It's like watching a train wreck happening in slow motion but there is nothing I can do about it. For example, my boyfriend and I recently took his sister and her boyfriend out to dinner. I happen to know that the boyfriend recently lost his car because he couldn't afford the payments. He's currently sleeping at my boyfriend's sister's parents' living room couch. While we were eating, he bragged that he's been saving up to buy some fancy belt from Italy. He showed me on the phone and the price tag was $3600. I didn't even know fashion belts could cost that much I've also seen someone of my age blow through $70k she inherited in a year. She eventually got kicked out of her apartment and had to move back to her mother's place. Her boyfriend left to go to Colorado to find work. He spent his entire first paycheck buying weed and posted it on facebook to brag.

And it's understandable that youths these days stay at home longer. We just had a really bad recession. But even successful millennials tend to stay at home a lot longer these days.

What I said was from my personal experience people in my own age group don't seem to care about current events or history.