DNC Strategy
- Young People -

INVEST WISELY

Congratulations - you're at the threshold of your great adventure - YOUR LIFE!

By now you've gotten lots of advice - some good and some bad - and lots of peer pressure - some good and some bad - and now it's time to choose the direction of YOUR life, so you want to choose wisely. Your early choices amount to your early investment in your long-term future. Your best bets are going to be the choices that will lead to your long-term success. That's where avoidance of investment traps is most important. Remember, Free Stuff isn't free, and attractive pleasures are fleeting.

An investment with a sound footing - hard work, perseverance, integrity, accountability, delayed gratification and ownership - has proved successful over and over. Yes, you will start at the bottom of the ladder but if you build your strength rather than pursue short-term follies you will climb to heights you couldn't imagine. Read on for details.

WHO AM I?

Teenage years are challenging. Emerging from your parent's values and guidance in childhood you are faced with peer pressure that may be different from those values. Some bad, tempting you to make questionable choices - and some good, encouraging you to step up to a higher standard. Ultimately YOU will choose the value set that YOU will embrace as YOUR life's guiding direction. It is yours alone to make, good or bad, so choose wisely.

WHAT WILL I BE?

The future as a young adult is very unclear. Hopefully you have discovered for yourself what you are good at, what you enjoy doing, and therefore the kind of work you would find fun and challenging. Still, where will YOU find YOUR fit into college or the workplace? The best we can give you is the consolation that you're not alone. Your parents were in this dilemma a few short years ago, and they survived.

Your grandparents had old-fashioned guidance from singer Doris Day ^[1] - you can check it out just for grins - to help put your current situation into perspective

Sorry, none of the above will solve your current challenge. But you need to know that you are in good company, just like everyone else, including your parents and grandparents when they were your age.

The action you can take that IS under your control and important for you to take NOW is in the next step. Read on.

AVOID THE TRAP

When you reach age 18 you will have the privilege of voting, selecting political candidates with the best policies that will move your community, your state and your nation in the best direction. Just like your peers, some candidates will lead you down an attractive sounding path that will ultimately do you harm. And others will promote a tough direction that will make you work harder but ultimately reward you more. We're talking about political candidates that will entice you with free stuff, and to fix everything for you. The easy road. By now you probably know that nothing is free. And that isn't going to change just because a political candidate promises it. The candidates you want to support are the ones that ask you to do the hard, challenging stuff - that will let you demonstrate and earn the reputation that YOU are made of the right stuff. Here's an example tough challenge that one of our great former Presidents gave:

Just over eight years after the May 25,1961 speech - on July 20, 1969 - NASA's Apollo 11 mission landed the first humans on the moon. Did you know that when Neil Armstrong stepped on to the surface of the moon, the average age of engineers at Mission Control was just 28? ^{[4], [5]} Yes, young people - people your age - did it. And you can do it too - participate in whatever is NEXT - if you do the hard, challenging things.

Don't take the easy road, the seemingly free stuff. See More ^[6]. And This ^[7]. And, be sure to visit our Shortcuts section.

BEST LONG-TERM STRATEGY

Many people have been down your road before you. They have some good advice, but it's tough advice. Importantly, it's wise advice. Here's the advice that has a decades-long track record of significantly improving your success, the Success Sequence ^[8]:

• Graduate from high school (at least)
• Get a full-time job
• Marry before having kids

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LOW INCOME? - CHECK THIS

Under Democrat control inflation has gone from 1.4% to 17.9%. Necessities such as electricity (28.6%), food (20.8%), and rent (19.5%) have all outpaced net inflation, along with frozen noncarbonated juices and drinks (29.0%). On average, Americans are spending more than $11,400 more annually to buy just the basics. These increases marked a 40-year high ^{[9], [16], [14], [17]}. If you are on fixed income your outlook is especially dim as year-over-year inflation continues to compound the problem.

RECESSION - despite Biden administration denials, the economy entered recession in June 2022, as confirmed by economists and business leaders. The first thing Democrats did after confirmation of the recession was to approve another massive tax-and-spend bill that economists agree will make inflation worse.

Democrat policies disproportionately harm low income and young people because they hit staple items needed by everyone for basic survival (food, rent and transportation) the hardest. Democrat policies support illegal immigration (costing Billions and driving wages down), penalize businesses (especially energy and transportation industries), and squander Billions on wasteful big Government spending programs.

Staggering Illegal immigration also drove up housing and rent prices, especially lower cost housing. In 2021 rents increased 15.2% and in the last four years home purchase costs increased a whopping 80%, again breaking decades-long records ^{[13], [15]}.

Under Republican control unemployment fell to historic lows, millions were lifted off of welfare, and low income wages rose faster than high income wages.

If your income is low, you should carefully consider who should get your vote. Democrat policies are dragging you down; Republican policies will lift you up.

FALSE ECONOMY

Due to high gasoline prices caused by the Biden administration energy policies, President Biden is now promoting E15 biofuel to lower fuel costs, estimated to save about 10 cents per gallon. The announcement, however, omits a few facts:

• 2% more E15 fuel is required to go the same distance as "regular" E10 gasoline - an increase of 8 cents* - essentially wiping out any "savings" ^{[11], [12]}
• E15 fuel is normally prohibited during summer months due to its impact on smog production. While environmentalists would be screaming about this in a Trump administration, they are silent under the Biden administration. So much for "science".
• Food crops are diverted to produce ethanol for E15 fuel, further driving up the cost of food
• E15 fuel is available in only 1.5% of gasoline stations, mostly in the midwest
• E15 fuel is more corrosive than gasoline. As a result it should not be used in cars or trucks older than 2001, other vehicles or boats, or in home equipment such as lawn mowers and generators due to the risk of engine damage.

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LIMITED-TIME OPPORTUNITY

Young people have an immediate, unbelievable opportunity RIGHT NOW, TODAY. It's the best opportunity that's been seen in decades.

Here's what it is.

Many young workers and even older workers today are sitting on the sidelines because they have gotten generous Stimulus and Enhanced Unemployment benefits - and are slow to return to work. There are currently far more job Openings than there are Applicants. As any investor would tell you, this is the PERFECT time to jump into the market. If you jump in now, learn important job skills, demonstrate your capabilities and reliability, and help the business succeed, you will stand out to your employer. When others return to the job market you will already be established, and advanced ahead of the newcomers. You will likely be in a position of leadership, bringing new employees in to the business. And, when wages rise you will be on the leading edge, not playing catch-up.

Think about it, and take ACTION today.

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SOCIALISM

Here's a short story about Socialism - a concept liberally promoted in today's schools. We apologize in advance for the abrupt, sometimes harsh tone of the narrative, and certainly don't think most kids speak this way to their parents ^[10]. It makes an important point, however, which young people should consider.

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