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“I think every business is trying to target millennials,” she said in an interview with
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“But who are millennials? Now we are nding out that they are living with their parents.

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8 hours ago
Jack Gil SEXUAL KNEADS We try trendy new vagina
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comes at a price
She is right!  They are also called liberal Democrats.

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8 hours ago
Steven Kane

This kind of generalization is not very useful from a woman who has made a fortune by
telling people where in the room to put the cut owers.  The jury is still out on the so-called
"millennials."  While I know plenty of people my age who wish that their grown children would
get some education, get a job, get their own place - anything to show some motivation, I SOAP SPOILERS Is Ben Mitchell going to
know many others whose adult children are smart, highly productive and responsible people be killed off? EastEnders fans in a panic
who are beginning to make big contributions.  Wait 20 or 30 years and judge the outcome over rumours he will meet a grisly end
then.  We do not know what the future holds and it may present the "millennials" with huge
unforeseen challenges.  Time will tell whether or not they will as a group step up to meet
those challenges as did the people  of my parents' generation who, basically, saved the world
by their dedication and sacri ce.

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Bella
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Someone told her at a dinner party that she would do well to buy some stock because fall in three hours this afternoon
something was happening, she, like many others I would suggest, did so and got caught.
 Wasn't that the start and end of that story?  Hardly mainstream crime.  
   
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9 hours ago
kh

She's right!! Not to mention their profound narcissism and lack of creativity. Just look at their
so-called music. Forget about learning and mastering the art of singing and playing
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events. Most of them think the world didn't exist till they came along. Ask them about WW2 snap of her kissing Harper on the lips by…
and get a "huh?".

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9 hours ago
Jim Toms

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10 hours ago
vencedor

Martha might be a millionaire, but let's not forget that all her initiative took her...to jail! I never
paid attention to that moron.

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10 hours ago
bill 1942
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Xmas, folks! The world is ‘going to end on
Bingo! Ms. Stewart is right on target. The whiners want to take over the world, but have
July 29 as the magnetic poles reverse'
absolutely no idea how things should work. Tell them, Martha!!!

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10 hours ago
Richard Walker

Completely agree. I'm technically a Millennial. I have a (useful) degree, a good paying job, a
house, a family, and I don't live paycheck to paycheck.

The question my wife hears WAY too much from people our age: What does your husband
DO?!? As though the notion of working hard and having ambition** is foreign.

(** ambition that doesn't involve being a SJW on Twitter, that is).

   
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9 hours ago
vencedor

@Richard Walker 
Nowadays you don't need to ask what someone else does. If you know their name, it's
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13 hours ago
Jeffrey Gee

Not all of us have buddies we can inside trade with on the stock market to make our fortunes.
 Not many people also have the choice of going to a cozy, resort, country club prison when
they get caught either, aye Martha???

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12 hours ago
Muso Popps

@Jeffrey Gee whhhhhaaaa someone call the whhaaambulance  for jeff gee I have a
excuse why I suck in life. Stop blaming others because the truth hurts. And the same
POS that indited her let Hillary go so how corrupt is the judicial system. And for
insider trading george sorros and huge nical contributor to the terrorist group Black
Lives matters has been caught multiple times without going to jail. A little information
might make you smart

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10 hours ago
Richard Walker

@Jeffrey Gee Uh huh. It's somebody ELSE's fault. 

Out of curiosity, where did you rst hear that line of reasoning? From a tenured
professor during your freshman year of college perhaps?

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7 hours ago
Eliot Dennis

@Jeffrey Gee Every member of Congress can insider-trade to their heart's desire,
because they have exempted themselves from the law. She did something that
anyone with half a brain would want to do in the same situation, but only politicians
are allowed to do it. How do you think those guys get so rich? Most of them make
their big bucks while in Congress, by insider trading. If it's wrong, it should be wrong
  for everyone. If it's OK, it should be OK for everyone.  

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13 hours ago
Poupon Marx

I'm 68, and have to live with the fact that my generation sold and gave away America to the
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Hostile Elite, kleptocracy, and mentally ill sociopaths and narcissists who have no value
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It's called Collectivism, of the Mind, Spirit.  People today are remote controlled by the clever
manipulators of the culture, academy, and media.  In the Soviet Union, only 2% were Party
members, the rest were nothing, non-persons.  How do I know this?  I WENT THERE AND
OBSERVED, had contacts stayed in those peoples' homes.

Today's youth need to read and experience "Two Years Before The Mast", by Richard Henry
Dana.  They need military boot camp and 2 years of military service to burn off the imbecile
childishness.

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13 hours ago
Chris Norton

She is out of touch. I was a teacher, now nearing senior age, been around kids my whole life.
 The 18-34 year olds are doing great. They are smarter than my generation, they do not get
stale in their knowledge base like my generation, they are tech savvy, they are not self
entitled, they open small biz, go into the professions. I can name 2 dozen kids of my friends
who are all doing extremely well in professions and biz.  They do not expect a company to
provide for them until death, they are healthier,  I am impressed with these kids.  

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13 hours ago
Poupon Marx

@Chris Norton Out of self interest, probably.  People like you are part of the problem.
 This generation is functionally Illiterate, can't write a paragraph, and have few critical
thinking skills.

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9 hours ago
bill 1942

@Chris Norton I think that Martha's comments were directed, not a the dozen or so
that you know, but to the thousands who cower in Mom's basement and are "afraid" of
life!!!

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14 hours ago
  John Teschnir  

I'm a little tired of the Baby Boomers, who stole all of the Millennial's money through
congress, telling the millennials to get a job.  If the baby boomers, who caused the nancial
melt down, had just taken their losses and retired instead of holding on to their high paying
jobs an additional 8 years, the Millennials would be gainfully employed.  Just because we
have a better sense of work life balance doesn't mean we're lazy.  Self indulgence is as self
indulgence does miss inside trader.  By the way did the prison guards appreciate your
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pro table business.  All of the conditions you are complaining about were created by YOU
and YOUR GENERATION. 

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14 hours ago
Jeanne Nickerson

@John Teschnir Instead of being "tired" of us, why not build on what we did! Then you
wouldn't have to overwork your little pea brain! You're no better than the black racists
who blame everything on everyone else, when it's them who have the problem! Any
right in the head person is going to work, be responsible and accountable, and make
whatever they can of their life.  If you think we're going to drop out of society so you
can nd a job, you'll be sorely disappointed,.  You make of life what you want and stop
blaming everyone else for your own inadequacies!

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14 hours ago
Jeanne Nickerson

@John Teschnir And btw, you no more have initiative than knowing exactly who and
what you are! What are you identifying as this week? I agree that idiots like you are
responsible for electing and reelecting the pampas incompetent ass in the WH who
has destroyed our economy, overregulated jobs out of the country, and simply prefers
making us all government dependent,  Now that Bernie has sold out, I bet you can
wait to go out there and elect the rst woman president based on nothing more than
gender and being " rst"...makes no difference she's a pathological liar and
sociopathic criminal! You have no more initiative than all the rest of your friends
bellyaching about having to deal with reality!  Stop making excuses, stop blaming
others, and get off your ass and do something more responsible than electing
dimwitted criminals to of ce!

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13 hours ago
John Teschnir

@Jeanne Nickerson @John Teschnir  This coming from someone who wants

to retire 20 years before they die, but probably didn't save enough to do it, so
they are hoping  the dems come to their rescue and just tax the hell out of
me....Don't talk politics until you have solved the problem that is consuming
2/3rds of the budget ie medicare and social security.  They're both broke, you
spent the money, but you still want me to pay for it?  Talk about responsibility.

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9 hours ago
bill 1942

@John Teschnir Wrong! We had better sense than to vote for Obama!

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John Teschnir

@bill 1942 @John Teschnir 

https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/how-groups-voted/how-
groups-voted-2012/
Nope, pretty close to 50/50 "age 45-64"

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9 hours ago
Gus Smith

@bill 1942 @John Teschnir Get your head on straight.  Look at the stock
market today and reminisce about failed Republican economics.

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14 hours ago
Ric Reed

Says the corrupt woman who used insider information to illegally make money on Wall Street.
I wouldn't trust her or believe a word that comes out of her mouth!!

She's The Corrupt Hillary Clinton of Cooking!!

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9 hours ago
bill 1942

@Ric Reed Go back to Mom's basement and sulk.

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15 hours ago
Whisperin Pints

I remember the Greatest Generation saying the same about us Boomers. yaaawn
   
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14 hours ago
Michael Trujillo

@Whisperin Pints I've never once heard that.  Maybe someone was referring to you
speci cally.
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Tom Walter

It should be mandatory for any little snow ake at age 18 to serve at least one year in a
military branch of their choice. That will grow'em up fast.

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15 hours ago
Philip Lincester

As a former high school teacher, now retired, I de nitely agree with Ms. Stewart.  There were
exceptions, but for the most part they expected to get something for nothing and were
insulted (sometimes enraged) when my standard for them was to actually earn what they felt
they deserved gratis.  The really sad part was, the parents of those kids were no better.

If I had to choose my own words, they would be sel sh, uninformed, disinterested, marginally
educated, uncooperative, loutish, boorish, unimaginative and so forth and so on.

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15 hours ago
none yourbusiness

Those are all high school kids you're talking about though aren't they? You're
comparing the  mindsets of teenagers with grown adults with responsibilities. You
don't believe those teenagers grow up to be productive citizens like every generation
has before them? Look at your engineers, scientists, and technology folks. Most are
late 20-early 30 somethings who are working their tails off. I didn't realize mindless
cynicism was a part of growing older. 

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13 hours ago
John Teschnir

@Philip Lincester 
I tend to agree with 'None' here.  Not only that, but who raised the Millennials.... oh
that's right the baby boomers.... Well I guess you all should have though about the
consequences of being sel sh, uninformed, disinterested, marginally educated
(laughable coming from a teacher admitting they didn't do a good job), uncooperative,
loutish, boorish, unimaginative and ... the cause.  If you don't like the way the children
  turned out, look at the parents... ie... the baby boomers.  they learn from example the  
pot smoking, ower power, free love and peace, hippie generation.

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 @John Teschnir @Philip Lincester Baby boomers didn't raise the millenials.
Baby boomers are grandparents and great-grandparents now. Baby boomers
are the babies born in the aftermath of WWII, so no, they didn't raise the
millenials.

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15 hours ago
none yourbusiness

Millenial checking in. I work in Oil & Gas (technology sector) and work my a$$ off every day.
Have a wife at home in an extremely high rent area because that's where it's safe to live in our
city. I've never taken a dime from my parents or the government. My wife and I have never
gone a day without working in our lives. We work hard because that's what it takes to survive
in this world. Please don't lump us in with the limp-wristed socialists with Art degrees who
live off their parents. There are just as many of us who come to work everyday and bust our
butts as there are those whom Mrs. Stewart is referring to. I know this because I work around
them each day.

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15 hours ago
JJ Coates

I believe your view of parenting has promoted the unintended consequence of our children's
laziness and victim generation.  We need to teach our children to learn how to take calculated
risks. Yes, they will have to learn how to do without - just like we did.  It built character.  I
couldn't afford a tv so I did without.  Risk is good for you.  If you are afraid of risk: Why start a
business?  Why ask for a raise?  Why interview for a job? Why move out when mom and dad
will pay for everything, cook meals and do my laundry?  

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16 hours ago
John Beargrass

Right on Martha!  Too many of the kiddies today not only do not want to work, they are unable
to do anything because of their lifestyle of being babied all the time.  Very few go to school
and keep a job at the same time as us "old out of touch people"  had to do.  Mention working
construction in the summer or working on a farm, they look at you and say,"I am not a
Mexican" 

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16 hours ago
Brandon Johnson

Millennials will inevitably run the world and Baby Boomers don't seem to be able to accept
that. Calling an entire generation lazy is an error in reasoning. We can call the Baby Boomers
entitled or wasteful and it accomplishes nothing.
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Despite the fact I normally love Martha Stewart, her comment irks me since it seems out of
place with her normal wise demeanor. Successful Millennials work their asses off. However,
there are unsuccessful Millennials that work their asses off. Economic and political
uncertainty has been around for 20 years now and it has no signs of passing.

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7 hours ago
Eliot Dennis

@Brandon Johnson Baby boomers will be dead by the time the snow akes run the
world, since we're talking about people who are in their 60s and 70s now. My sister-in-
law's three kids are in their thirties, and none of them have a steady job. They're "too
sensitive" to withstand the outside world, and they want everyone else to serve them
like slaves. And guess what? Their parents are conservatives. They have, however, the
bene t of an overly generous grandmother, who has spoiled them rotten and sees to it
that they don't have to make a living, much like parents who let their grown kids live in
their basement.

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18 hours ago
Anna McQuade

To be fair, if reading most newspapers , the world is a scary place :). I told my daughter she
can stay and save with us as long as is needed so she can afford her own home. Too many
children now leave home and burn most of their wages on rent. This woman needs to live in
the real world, young ones would move out if could save.

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16 hours ago
john smith

@Anna McQuade spoken like a true helicopter parent. the world is a scary place?
sheesh.

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7 hours ago
Tara Fuller

  @Anna McQuade The world is scary place but you just suck it up and deal with it  
that's what life is about.

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