In a recent survey of 18-34 year old Americans, it appears most young people are in a very unhappy financial situation. A recent poll shows that 48% of the young people surveyed are worried about their financial future, and believe they may never been as well off as their parents.

When asked what young people believe the job of congress should be, many replied with jobs, education and ensuring social security will still be around for us when we are retiring.  These problems of financial security and anxiety did not begin to surface overnight.

Rewind to our childhood, we were all taught we are all equal, that everyone was good at something. Even though not everyone could win a World Series, everyone was taught they were winners at T-ball, Whether or not you could hit a ball and run in a straight line to first base was beside the point. So, now in our young adults it is hitting us like a brick wall, that we may never be successful.

I am worried my generation does not care about producing great products anymore, we were taught the rich were evil, and greedy. We were raised in a culture immersed in the idea we would always get what we wanted. It comes as a shock to most of us, when we get to college and we are forced to try in school.

My generation is a generation built on the easy way out, we have  been holding out for the day we wake up and suddenly own a successful business or suddenly have a high-paying position at a fortune 500 company. It is no wonder my generation was so thrown off guard to find out our student loans had risen 42% since the previous generation. After all, all things worthwhile are free.

The same young America who is concerned for their personal financial state is the same young America who voted for President Barack Obama in 2008.  The same President who literally blew up the economy and ran it into the ground face first. If he had done nothing, it literally would not be worse. Inflation is sky rocketing and unemployment is at the highest percentage in our age group. Young people have never been as unemployed as they are right now. This recession is turning us into a lost generation.

Still, some of us are not learning. Some of us will choose to sit in a park in NYC and pretend to hate money. Others of us will work ourselves to death trying to rebuild this great nation. The latter is sadly a much smaller group. Over 18 million young people are unemployed right and millions of us are living on food stamps. Once again, another higher number than ever imaginable in this land of opportunity.

Comparatively, my generation is becoming one of problem makers, and not problem solvers, instantly causing us all to rethink ever playing T-ball.Young people are the biggest losers in this  crises, and this joblessness will haunt us for years to come. With all of our hearts we should be praying this president will not get re-elected next year. Literally for the sake of our generation.