Baby Boomers May Suck, But So Does Everyone Else.

[acptulsa]

I don't know if the implication that no boomers at all tried to resist the creeping crud is more ridiculous, or the pipe dream that younger generations have enough more wise people and fewer suckers to meaningfully change direction.

There's a sucker born every minute. They compose a majority of every generation. Anyone who thinks that history teaches us anything different is a fool begging to be played.

 

[tod evans]

After giving this a few more cups of coffee there may be other factors at play.

"The Boomers" are the last generation who were raised in intact households, by and large.

All succeeding generations have been exposed to 'single mother syndrome', either directly or indirectly.

Even in the most upscale environments the influence of single mothers plays a role in societies development, and yes us Boomers started this and it's a cancer that's growing at an alarming rate, probably faster than government.

The idea that 'widows and children' must be supported has been exploited for 3 generations now and the younger folks accept this as normal. The widows and children who needed support a few generations ago were struggling due to no fault of their own, statistically. Today it's become a vocation. All due to government interference.

Yet this form of perceived victimhood ranks right up there for the younger generations with weirdos and minorities.

 

[osan]

Boomer asks questions then cries about the answers.

Clearly there is no reasoning with you. You make blind, unsupported assertions, implicitly assuming some moral high ground, which in fact you do not hold. Whatever gets you through your days is OK by me.

I’m in awe of your life story, truly I am. And it’s led you to 16,000+ posts on an Internet message board.

You stab at irrelevancies in the weak attempt to discredit me and appear as if you had something of value to offer. Seriously little pal, you need a whole lot more game if you wish to fence with a cagey old bastard such as myself.

Suffice to say retirement ain’t what it’s cracked up to be.

Once again, what is your point, beyond the weak and obvious?

Liberals complaining about selfishness is just envy that they want it for themselves,

We do not disagree on this point, but what is the relevant connection here? It's like you're all over the map. You are clearly running on raw emotion, using your brain as a hat-rack, which isn't God's intended function for that particular organ. It seems you are capable of better, yet here you are. What's eating you?

The rest is jself-evidently just a re-wash of what you'd previously written, and merits no response. For what it may be worth to you, perhaps nothing, I hope you get over you bile, get some sense, and free yourself of the pointless anger that so clearly drives your views. Trust someone who knows better that not only do you dwell in falsehood, the optics are not very good.

Best wishes.

 

[osan]

I don't know if the implication that no boomers at all tried to resist the creeping crud is more ridiculous, or the pipe dream that younger generations have enough more wise people and fewer suckers to meaningfully change direction.

There's a sucker born every minute. They compose a majority of every generation. Anyone who thinks that history teaches us anything different is a fool begging to be played.

That's close enough to BINGO to call it.

Well stated.

That said, time will prove the kitten just how woefully mistaken he is.

 

[osan]

Yeah, I don't agree with that. The "freedom" you are describing is like the "freedom" that beasts have.

Not quite clear on what you mean by this?

But they are not free, are they, since they are shackled in the chains of the cruelest slaver of all: Nature.

OK, but by your reasoning, it is a short hop to "we are all slaves of gravity". This world is limited in certain, and I confidently assume very well considered, ways. I take your point well, but to adopt such a view is self-defeating, IMO. The proverbial "gravity issues" are fact. They constitute a very significant part of our realities and are, thus far, unbreakable. Until we figure ways around them, much as we figured our way into powered flight and putting men into orbit, they remain as unbreakable circumscriptions upon our choices. Why fret such matters when to do so is perfectly futile?

The precise same may be said of God's graces. We remain limited by certain factors of reality. It makes us no less free, if we choose to see things that way. An there, my pal, is the real rub. This is where the tyrants manage their black magick - it lies in the boundaries Theye draw. God bounds us. Nature bounds us. Tyrants, too, bound us, albeit far more tightly than either of the former, and they get away with it for no other reason than the fact that we do not rise to butcher them and their innocent children.

Might may not make right, but at the end of the day it makes reality. It's all bullshit, but it is nonetheless that with which we must put up precisely because we are too corrupted with whatever failings to become the monsters we were born to be under certain circumstances. And that is why I say this is ALL on us. The rational, reasonable, and honest man does not blame the viper with which he tried to make friends when the snake bites him. So it is with the sorts of men who seek power and control over others. That we fail to murder them to the man is the great evil we bring down upon ourselves. It is ugly and no good man wants to do it, but to be such a coward as to allow the lives of one's own children to be unnecessarily and unjustly ruined by those who do evil as matters of the blood circulating through their veins, is not forgivable. And that is where we all stand at this moment. Theye will never stop until we stop them. It is a simple as that. Diplomacy will not work. Sitting in a global-sized circle singing songs will not work. Naught but brute force, applied with no hint of reticence or other equivocation will Theye accept. Destruction of the enemies of liberty is the only way to ensure freedom remains every man's reality who wishes it. As for those seeking to be guided through their lives, every step, leave them to the damnation they impose upon themselves, so long as they make no effort to spread their cancers to others. And when they do, serve unto them the same fate as you would to "government". Destroy them; stamp out their genetic line. When this is the reward for crimes against one's fellows, behavior suddenly improves, as if by miracle.

It ain't rocket surgery.

 

[ClaytonB]

After giving this a few more cups of coffee there may be other factors at play.

"The Boomers" are the last generation who were raised in intact households, by and large.

All succeeding generations have been exposed to 'single mother syndrome', either directly or indirectly.

Even in the most upscale environments the influence of single mothers plays a role in societies development, and yes us Boomers started this and it's a cancer that's growing at an alarming rate, probably faster than government.

The idea that 'widows and children' must be supported has been exploited for 3 generations now and the younger folks accept this as normal. The widows and children who needed support a few generations ago were struggling due to no fault of their own, statistically. Today it's become a vocation. All due to government interference.

Yet this form of perceived victimhood ranks right up there for the younger generations with weirdos and minorities.

I'm not a boomer but I agree with this assessment. I think the issue is not to confuse correlation and causation. The once staunchly Christian culture of the US went into a nose-dive in the post-war era. Does that mean it was caused by that generation? I think the answer is yes-and-no. No, because we must not ignore the effects of the massive welfare-warfare State that was constructed by Roosevelt and the rest of that political wing, funded by infinity-cash from the Fed. It's 2023 and we're just starting to figure out the truth about what hit the boomer generation. They had no clue the monster that was waiting for them, and their parents even less. But there is also some responsibility in each generation for the things they know are wrong, but which they tolerate anyway. Sure, the boomers couldn't have figured out the control-matrix that the psychopaths in London, DC, etc. had secretly conspired to impose on them. But they had pretty good knowledge of the Bible compared to today's generation, so they really knew that loose-living was immoral but tolerated it anyway. We no longer even know that. How far we have fallen...

 

[Gaddafi Duck]

This Boomer split wood for heat growing up, there was no back-up and no air-conditioning. We gardened and canned, raised and butchered our own meat and Mom sewed most of our clothes, there were six of is kids. Dad traveled all week in order to earn enough to cover the bills.
Maybe you see golden opportunities looking back on a time you never experienced, but that's always the case, especially for those who harbor a victim mentality.
Politicians more than any group guide/misguide society, that fact has been true for many generations yet all of the voting age generations continue to play by their rules. My generation didn't have the spine to reign them in and from where I'm sitting yours certainly doesn't. You Millennials do whine and complain very well. (Doesn't group-think suck?)
All of us were given a clearly written instruction manual on how to conduct the business of governing society and every generation has permitted those documents to be altered and amended, even interpreted differently than the clearly written instructions, then we collectively pat ourselves on the back for advancing society whilst it crumbles around us.
All of us deserve this mess we've created because we tolerate it.

Again, talking about the world Boomers inherited here once they hit the age of majority—not the sacrifices their parents went through in the Depression and WWII that were lost on Boomers entirely. Everything was cheap and plentiful and Boomers never thought outside of their immediate me-me-me.

Literally zero victim mentality here. It’s obvious Boomers have a misinterpretation problem. The guy before said I had a Leftist mentality as if I lusted for other people’s material goods. Way off the mark. I’m pointing out Boomers’ innate self-centeredness that runs the gambit from the highest rates of abortion (Boomer generation) exemplifying this selfishness all the way to entitlements that were never reformed, to today where Boomers had a lifetime to course correct but instead all they elect to do is keep entitlements at the expense of their kids they supposedly loved so much.

So it’s rich listening to Boomers scoff and snub Millennials for being bratty. Meanwhile, Boomers will hold up a checkout line arguing about why they can’t stack a $1 coupon with a 50 cent coupon. Or they’re the first to complain and exclaim about an $8 Big Mac meal. Little do you realize Millennials never do such things because we’ve internalized the shitty high cost of living Boomers blessed us all with. So we don’t waste our time arguing with minimum wage employees about the effing restaurant bill. Boomers do that. They love to make a scene about how expensive things are. Now a Boomer reading all of this will AGAIN misinterpret that with “Oh we just know/appreciate the value of a dollar..” Nope. Wrong. It illustrates how Boomers were handed a high standard of living and squandered it and now complain about $8 value meals by making a scene. And the world revolves around them as it has their 6-7 decades, so their only concern is making sure that extra 50 cent coupon stacks even if it takes 10 minutes for a manager to just say “Whatever…” after arguing fruitlessly with a Boomer who’s backing up a line and ruining commerce. The manager just manually overrides and grants the price correction even though the coupon’s fine print says it can’t be stacked, but a Boomer is steadfast in their resolve, ahem…self-centered stubbornness, that they don’t care about inconveniencing a dozen other people’s day. A savings of fifty cents is worth it to them. And they justify it as “thriftiness” like they’re from a generation they never were a part of.

Literally none of this is victim mentality. Millennials realize it is what it is. I want nothing from Boomers. I just enjoy pointing out to Boomers how they like to act like they were their parents’ generation while projecting their whiny immaturities on their kids’ generation. And then them taking the blame to puff their chests out to the world is that it’s their fault they loved their kids so much.

Yeah, that’s engrained entitlement brought to you by Boomers where disingenuous apologies go to build their egos in the most backhanded ways possible. Millennials are screwed up because Boomers just did everything for us. Awww, thanks, Boomers. Just an incredible generation impressed with their own existence.

 

[Gaddafi Duck]

I'm not a boomer but I agree with this assessment. I think the issue is not to confuse correlation and causation. The once staunchly Christian culture of the US went into a nose-dive in the post-war era. Does that mean it was caused by that generation? I think the answer is yes-and-no. No, because we must not ignore the effects of the massive welfare-warfare State that was constructed by Roosevelt and the rest of that political wing, funded by infinity-cash from the Fed. It's 2023 and we're just starting to figure out the truth about what hit the boomer generation. They had no clue the monster that was waiting for them, and their parents even less. But there is also some responsibility in each generation for the things they know are wrong, but which they tolerate anyway. Sure, the boomers couldn't have figured out the control-matrix that the psychopaths in London, DC, etc. had secretly conspired to impose on them. But they had pretty good knowledge of the Bible compared to today's generation, so they really knew that loose-living was immoral but tolerated it anyway. We no longer even know that. How far we have fallen...

Absolutely, the Christian culture collapsed largely thanks to the Boomer generation. Millennials are picking up the pieces and basically rediscovering Christianity no thanks to the lack of upbringing from Boomers.

I’ll say again, abortion peaked in 1990. 1.4 million a year. That’s when Boomers were having their last kid/aborting their last kid. Today, abortion is around 600k a year…with 83 million more people in the country. So abortion collapsed. Millennials aren’t butchering their kids like Boomers did. I can’t think of a more selfish act than abortion, so no surprise Boomers had the most abortions and the only thing stopping them from having more was natural aging out of fertility.

So yeah, Christianity and Christian values are being revitalized today, which is a much bigger task to accomplish given Millennials didnt grow up with good examples, despite how Boomers insist they were incredible parents. Boomers grew up with church life from a better generation, and then turned their backs and didn’t carry and pass the torch to Millennials. So if I can give Millennials kudos, at least we’re not getting abortions out of expediency, even though the personal economics for families today are WAAAY tougher vs. what Boomers dealt with.

Imagine a Boomer buying their first home today. What’s the cost of a median house—$400k??? Boomers would’ve aborted all of their kids at the price of these homes. Boomers’ homes were $50k and rode them up and swapped higher. Many Millennials can’t even buy a starter home. Yet we aren’t aborting our kids to afford a home. No question Boomers would do that for an excuse. Heck, what was the excuse Boomers had in the 1980s aborting millions of Millennials? Was is too difficult to live in 1985 with such high expenses as 80 cent gasoline? A $300 mortgage payment? Hilarious.

 

[tod evans]

Again, talking about the world Boomers inherited here once they hit the age of majority—not the sacrifices their parents went through in the Depression and WWII that were lost on Boomers entirely. Everything was cheap and plentiful and Boomers never thought outside of their immediate me-me-me.

Literally zero victim mentality here. It’s obvious Boomers have a misinterpretation problem. The guy before said I had a Leftist mentality as if I lusted for other people’s material goods. Way off the mark. I’m pointing out Boomers’ innate self-centeredness that runs the gambit from the highest rates of abortion (Boomer generation) exemplifying this selfishness all the way to entitlements that were never reformed, to today where Boomers had a lifetime to course correct but instead all they elect to do is keep entitlements at the expense of their kids they supposedly loved so much.

So it’s rich listening to Boomers scoff and snub Millennials for being bratty. Meanwhile, Boomers will hold up a checkout line arguing about why they can’t stack a $1 coupon with a 50 cent coupon. Or they’re the first to complain and exclaim about an $8 Big Mac meal. Little do you realize Millennials never do such things because we’ve internalized the shitty high cost of living Boomers blessed us all with. So we don’t waste our time arguing with minimum wage employees about the effing restaurant bill. Boomers do that. They love to make a scene about how expensive things are. Now a Boomer reading all of this will AGAIN misinterpret that with “Oh we just know/appreciate the value of a dollar..” Nope. Wrong. It illustrates how Boomers were handed a high standard of living and squandered it and now complain about $8 value meals by making a scene.

Literally none of this is victim mentality. Millennials realize it is what it is. I want nothing from Boomers. I just enjoy pointing out to Boomers how they like to act like they were their parents’ generation while projecting their whiny immaturities on their kids’ generation. And then them taking the blame to puff their chests out to the world is that it’s their fault they loved their kids so much.

Yeah, that’s engrained entitlement brought to you by Boomers where disingenuous apologies go to build their egos in the most backhanded ways possible. Millennials are screwed up because Boomers just did everything for us. Awww, thanks, Boomers. Just an incredible generation impressed with their own existence.

Maybe you'd care to point out one issue I raised?

It's understandable that you don't appreciate the world you've inherited, most generations don't. Just as most generations try their best to "reform" society in order to suit them at any given stage in their life.

I tend to view the past generations, our ancestors, as people who tried to do their best. Many were foolish, some were greedy but by and large each generation leaves the world more advanced and the worldwide standard of living improved.

It takes a special kind of victim to whine about inheriting a world with modern housing/transportation and widespread knowledge, that or exceptionally stupid and entitled person who claims to not be a victim while sniveling about their lot in life...

Maybe......Just maybe......A few decades of toil, a few relationships, a few business endeavors and a few children will change your outlook? Or maybe not.

How you view your life and what you do to improve it will be judged by your children and their children.

I'm proud of my ancestors, maybe you can be too someday.

One thing is certain, the soapbox of the interwebs lets more voices be heard than any time in history.

 

[Gaddafi Duck]

Clearly there is no reasoning with you. You make blind, unsupported assertions, implicitly assuming some moral high ground, which in fact you do not hold. Whatever gets you through your days is OK by me.



You stab at irrelevancies in the weak attempt to discredit me and appear as if you had something of value to offer. Seriously little pal, you need a whole lot more game if you wish to fence with a cagey old bastard such as myself.



Once again, what is your point, beyond the weak and obvious?



We do not disagree on this point, but what is the relevant connection here? It's like you're all over the map. You are clearly running on raw emotion, using your brain as a hat-rack, which isn't God's intended function for that particular organ. It seems you are capable of better, yet here you are. What's eating you?

The rest is jself-evidently just a re-wash of what you'd previously written, and merits no response. For what it may be worth to you, perhaps nothing, I hope you get over you bile, get some sense, and free yourself of the pointless anger that so clearly drives your views. Trust someone who knows better that not only do you dwell in falsehood, the optics are not very good.

Best wishes.

Say what you want, but Boomers own the fact they are the kings of abortion. You get that from rampant entitlement/selfishness. You wonder why what I said about selfishness is relevant—you asked!

To sum up, Boomers take blame for being just too good of parents and they were admittedly naive for doing so. That sums up Boomers. The best accountability from them is to apologize for too much love and care.

Here are the cliff notes:

1. Boomers had the most abortions
2. Boomers will hold up a checkout line arguing and demanding their multi-50 cent coupons stack despite the fine print.This ruins everyone else’s day, but to a Boomer, their 50 cent coupon is the most important thing in the world. Everyone else can shut up and enjoy the logjam.
3. Boomers will make a scene about the cost of an $8 value meal. Boomers will argue with minimum wage employees about the cost of a restaurant tab and cause unjustified grief. Because, again, the only thing that matters to Boomers is themselves.

Millennials won’t badger entry level workers for the price of things. We understand inflation has lowered the standards of living in this country. Boomers think it’s an absolute outrage their large Dairy Queen Blizzard was $6.73 with tax. Millennials pay the bill and move on without comment. A Boomer can’t resist making a comment. “HOW MUCH?!?!!!!” It’s rather comical and embarrassing anytime I see a Boomer make a cashier or waiter feel uncomfortable having to explain to these precious Boomers how things cost money and, well, the price is listed on the menu before you effing buy it.

Best of all, Boomers get massively offended after they mock Millennials to which most of us just will reply with “OK, Boomer.” Kinda funny they dish it out and try to insult us, but are obviously so sensitive themselves they can’t even handle a dismissive waive of the hand without being triggered. Millennials simply don’t care. I just feel compelled to explain to Boomers who feel the need to go out of their way to denigrate Millennials the reality, and how oblivious Boomers are to how they act. Again, they project their own whiny attitudes onto their kids in their own minds while fancying themselves as a rugged generation of their parents/grandparents that they clearly didn’t endure.

 

[Gaddafi Duck]

Maybe you'd care to point out one issue I raised?

It's understandable that you don't appreciate the world you've inherited, most generations don't. Just as most generations try their best to "reform" society in order to suit them at any given stage in their life.

I tend to view the past generations, our ancestors, as people who tried to do their best. Many were foolish, some were greedy but by and large each generation leaves the world more advanced and the worldwide standard of living improved.

It takes a special kind of victim to whine about inheriting a world with modern housing/transportation and widespread knowledge, that or exceptionally stupid and entitled person who claims to not be a victim while sniveling about their lot in life...

Maybe......Just maybe......A few decades of toil, a few relationships, a few business endeavors and a few children will change your outlook? Or maybe not.

How you view your life and what you do to improve it will be judged by your children and their children.

I'm proud of my ancestors, maybe you can be too someday.

One thing is certain, the soapbox of the interwebs lets more voices be heard than any time in history.

Yyyyyyeaaaaah, uhm, I am thankful for modern amenities, most of which were figured out long before Boomers, by the way. That’s not even close to the discussion at hand. The issue is over how Boomers inherited the family fortune, completely blew it like drunken socialites, and proceed to ridicule Millennials for being weak. Meanwhile, uttering “OK, Boomer,” sends Boomers into an inconsolable tailspin.

You actually are reading how life expectancies and quality of life for the first time in history is worse for generations inheriting today vs. what every other generation before did. So while we do have air conditioning and automobiles, that obfuscates from the fact that Boomers have no qualms with siphoning every drop they can. They embraced lockdowns. Wore masks, forced kids to wear masks just so that Boomers could squeeze out more time. They didn’t care.

The issue at hand is it takes a certain generation to stare at $400,000 median home prices, $100,000 college tuition, $50,000 median new car prices, complete deindustrialization of the country, and conclude “Oh yeah, I still want mine (Social Security check).” That’s Boomers. Millennials have these headwinds, and then Boomers say suck it up buttercup, I want my $1500 Social Security check so I can joyride at the casino. Make sure you grab your daily lunch special at the Deuces Wild buffet!

No, I look fondly on previous generations. Not Boomers, though. Nothing honorable about demanding entitlements stay in place as Millennials deal with the biggest financial headwinds No generation previous has had. $400k for a home. It was unheard of to think young people couldn’t start a family in any generation prior to today. Today, that’s accepted and Boomers want those people to pay for the entitlements.

 

[tod evans]

Yyyyyyeaaaaah, uhm, I am thankful for modern amenities, most of which were figured out long before Boomers, by the way. That’s not even close to the discussion at hand. The issue is over how Boomers inherited the family fortune, completely blew it like drunken socialites, and proceed to ridicule Millennials for being weak. Meanwhile, uttering “OK, Boomer,” sends Boomers into an inconsolable tailspin.

You actually are reading how life expectancies and quality of life for the first time in history is worse for generations inheriting today vs. what every other generation before did. So while we do have air conditioning and automobiles, that obfuscates from the fact that Boomers have no qualms with siphoning every drop they can. They embraced lockdowns. Wore masks, forced kids to wear masks just so that Boomers could squeeze out more time. They didn’t care.

The issue at hand is it takes a certain generation to stare at $400,000 median home prices, $100,000 college tuition, $50,000 median new car prices, complete deindustrialization of the country, and conclude “Oh yeah, I still want mine (Social Security check).” That’s Boomers. Millennials have these headwinds, and then Boomers say suck it up buttercup, I want my $1500 Social Security check so I can joyride at the casino. Make sure you grab your daily lunch special at the Deuces Wild buffet!

No, I look fondly on previous generations. Not Boomers, though. Nothing honorable about demanding entitlements stay in place as Millennials deal with the biggest financial headwinds No generation previous has had. $400k for a home. It was unheard of to think young people couldn’t start a family in any generation prior to today. Today, that’s accepted and Boomers want those people to pay for the entitlements.

You seem to know "Boomers" whom I've never met, my siblings and I didn't inherit anything yet each of us are leaving our children legacy in the form of land and investments. A legacy each of us earned, on our own without government assistance. I have one brother who eats fast food and I'm certain neither he nor his family squabble over coupons, most of us prefer to cook our own food.

Like you, I whined as a youngster, gas jumped to over a dollar per gallon, a new car cost around $3k, a modest house without land was $25-30k while me as a lowly E-2 made just over $400.00 per MONTH before taxes.

Every generation wishes that they were born with their lifetime allotment of wealth and knowledge so that they could use it wisely while they're in good health..You're not the first, neither was I...

Many of my generation did embrace masks/lockdowns etc, and many believe 'TehNewz'.......Many didn't and don't.

Broad brush painting of people isn't smart but we all do it to a certain extent.

Personally I'd give up any 'free-stuff' government offers in order to secure my childs financial future. That's not even an option on the table with today's government but it should be.

I'd really like to see ALL social programs ended not just SSI and Med, this includes all federal pensions for GS ratings as well as all welfare and subsidies.

It was my parents generation that started off-shoring manufacturing, I watched my fathers business wither and die due to 'cheap Chinese shit". We all did our part to not patronize importers and I still do as much as possible yet each decade it gets more difficult.

You go ahead and blame the Boomers for the issues in your life if it makes you feel better.

 

[Gaddafi Duck]

You seem to know "Boomers" whom I've never met, my siblings and I didn't inherit anything yet each of us are leaving our children legacy in the form of land and investments. A legacy each of us earned, on our own without government assistance. I have one brother who eats fast food and I'm certain neither he nor his family squabble over coupons, most of us prefer to cook our own food.

Like you, I whined as a youngster, gas jumped to over a dollar per gallon, a new car cost around $3k, a modest house without land was $25-30k while me as a lowly E-2 made just over $400.00 per MONTH before taxes.

Every generation wishes that they were born with their lifetime allotment of wealth and knowledge so that they could use it wisely while they're in good health..You're not the first, neither was I...

Many of my generation did embrace masks/lockdowns etc, and many believe 'TehNewz'.......Many didn't and don't.

Broad brush painting of people isn't smart but we all do it to a certain extent.

Personally I'd give up any 'free-stuff' government offers in order to secure my childs financial future. That's not even an option on the table with today's government but it should be.

I'd really like to see ALL social programs ended not just SSI and Med, this includes all federal pensions for GS ratings as well as all welfare and subsidies.

It was my parents generation that started off-shoring manufacturing, I watched my fathers business wither and die due to 'cheap Chinese $#@!". We all did our part to not patronize importers and I still do as much as possible yet each decade it gets more difficult.

You go ahead and blame the Boomers for the issues in your life if it makes you feel better.

Try objectively for a moment to say Millennials have it better economically than Boomers had it. Just try it. You cried about $1 gas. Try $400k for a median home. $100k for college—-a requisite for damn near Every job today—never the case for Boomers.

I can objectively say every generation had it better (economically/lifestyle) than prior generations going back to the Founding. That’s without a doubt. You cannot even begin to say that’s true with Boomers and Millennials. If you took a Boomer’s mentality and planted them into Millennials’ shoes, they’d cry and tap out. $400k for a median home? A Boomer couldn’t even imagine. You guys whined about $1 gas. It’s not even funny. Boomers throw a fit when a 50 cent coupon is denied in the store. Boomers are a nightmare to deal with in customer service, and I’ve never had to work in that field. Just observing it anytime I go in person it’s agonizing. I roll my eyes every time a Boomer makes a comment about how expensive their meal was. Like I said, Millennials pay the bill and move on. Yet you guys have this misconception Millennils whine. It’s rather hilarious. Next time you recoil at the cost of something, remind yourself of this debate and look around at how you never see Millennials make a scene over the price of a Big Mac. Boomers do it all the time. You guys can’t help it.

I can objectively say my kids, by the time they’re 25, will have a far better outlook than Millennials did at 25. Millennials are picking up the pieces of the economy Boomers broke.

But it is funny Boomers talking about leaving an inheritance after they siphon every dime in Social Security. I very much doubt Boomers will leave anything that’s projected. I completely see the paper wealth evaporating and Boomers demanding expansion in entitlements as the debt bubble bursts and everything circles the drain. Most Boomers are 80/20 in bond funds. These trillions in wealth handing off to Millennials ain’t gonna happen. And you can bet Boomers will do everything they can to demand Millennials hike payroll taxes.

We’re also going to have to spend $100k to update the cheesy Boomer homes to have any semblance of taste. Thanks for the honey oak and cheap-looking everything.

 

[CCTelander]

You seem to know "Boomers" whom I've never met, my siblings and I didn't inherit anything yet each of us are leaving our children legacy in the form of land and investments. A legacy each of us earned, on our own without government assistance. I have one brother who eats fast food and I'm certain neither he nor his family squabble over coupons, most of us prefer to cook our own food.

Like you, I whined as a youngster, gas jumped to over a dollar per gallon, a new car cost around $3k, a modest house without land was $25-30k while me as a lowly E-2 made just over $400.00 per MONTH before taxes.

Every generation wishes that they were born with their lifetime allotment of wealth and knowledge so that they could use it wisely while they're in good health..You're not the first, neither was I...

Many of my generation did embrace masks/lockdowns etc, and many believe 'TehNewz'.......Many didn't and don't.

Broad brush painting of people isn't smart but we all do it to a certain extent.

Personally I'd give up any 'free-stuff' government offers in order to secure my childs financial future. That's not even an option on the table with today's government but it should be.

I'd really like to see ALL social programs ended not just SSI and Med, this includes all federal pensions for GS ratings as well as all welfare and subsidies.

It was my parents generation that started off-shoring manufacturing, I watched my fathers business wither and die due to 'cheap Chinese shit". We all did our part to not patronize importers and I still do as much as possible yet each decade it gets more difficult.

You go ahead and blame the Boomers for the issues in your life if it makes you feel better.

Though you’ve tried at least twice it seems to me that attempting to extend any kind of olive branch to this guy is pointless. Clearly he’s got a boulder-sized chip on his shoulder and is bound and determined to paint all “Boomers” with a broad, collectivst brush while completely ignoring the fact that any “Boomers” found HERE are most likely to be ones who fought all their lives against the very evils he whines so pathetically about.

Best to just let him stamp his little feet and have his little tantrum until he runs out of steam.

 

[tod evans]

Though you’ve tried at least twice it seems to me that attempting to extend any kind of olive branch to this guy is pointless. Clearly he’s got a boulder-sized chip on his shoulder and is bound and determined to paint all “Boomers” with a broad, collectivst brush while completely ignoring the fact that any “Boomers” found HERE are most likely to be ones who fought all their lives against the very evils he whines so pathetically about.

Best to just let him stamp his little feet and have his little tantrum until he runs out of steam.

You're right, just another youngster whose wise beyond his years. (Just ask him!)

 

[acptulsa]

Though you’ve tried at least twice it seems to me that attempting to extend any kind of olive branch to this guy is pointless. Clearly he’s got a boulder-sized chip on his shoulder and is bound and determined to paint all “Boomers” with a broad, collectivst brush while completely ignoring the fact that any “Boomers” found HERE are most likely to be ones who fought all their lives against the very evils he whines so pathetically about.

Best to just let him stamp his little feet and have his little tantrum until he runs out of steam.

I must admit, I'm having trouble finding my dog in this fight. He reads like I do when I say, "I told you so."

Of course, I don't paint myself into the pic with a broad brush. But otherwise I'm pretty much getting preached to here in the choirbox.

You're right, just another youngster whose wise beyond his years. (Just ask him!)

Young, dumb, full of cum, and a member of a generation that doesn't have any smaller a percentage of idiots than ours.

Whatever ours is. Were you also switched from GenX Senior Member to Junior Boomer during your lifetime? All my siblings are older and you can't tell them anything either. So I still feel like GenX.

 

[Gaddafi Duck]

Though you’ve tried at least twice it seems to me that attempting to extend any kind of olive branch to this guy is pointless. Clearly he’s got a boulder-sized chip on his shoulder and is bound and determined to paint all “Boomers” with a broad, collectivst brush while completely ignoring the fact that any “Boomers” found HERE are most likely to be ones who fought all their lives against the very evils he whines so pathetically about.

Best to just let him stamp his little feet and have his little tantrum until he runs out of steam.

That’s hilarious given you’ve literally shitposted with zero substance and that’s all. I actually address and debate.

OK Boomer!

 

[Gaddafi Duck]

You're right, just another youngster whose wise beyond his years. (Just ask him!)

Everything I said is an observable truth. Boomers aborted more babies than anyone else. Boomers will hold up a line for 10 minutes over a 50 cent coupon. They will cringe-complain about the price of food at a restaurant. And Boomers will ride Social Security into the ground for the sake of themselves, despite the burden it places on Millennials.

But that’s okay. We’re solving everything Boomers didn’t. Entitlements will collapse; we’ll allow for it. School choice is a thing despite Boomers in the 1980s arresting homeschool parents. Boomers commonly ostracized homeschooling when I grew up. Millennials today are way more embracing it. Boomers can’t wait to add the 29th line item bond issuance to the property tax bill. Boomers love their constipated bureaucracies. Like I said, thanks for the cable TV bundle.

 

[tod evans]

Everything I said is an observable truth. Boomers aborted more babies than anyone else. Boomers will hold up a line for 10 minutes over a 50 cent coupon. They will cringe-complain about the price of food at a restaurant. And Boomers will ride Social Security into the ground for the sake of themselves, despite the burden it places on Millennials.

But that’s okay. We’re solving everything Boomers didn’t. Entitlements will collapse; we’ll allow for it. School choice is a thing despite Boomers in the 1980s arresting homeschool parents. Boomers commonly ostracized homeschooling when I grew up. Millennials today are way more embracing it. Boomers can’t wait to add the 29th line item bond issuance to the property tax bill. Boomers love their constipated bureaucracies. Like I said, thanks for the cable TV bundle.

This Boomer played no part in the story you tell, nor will I.

Quick, while you know everything hurry and fix the country!
Take your public school education and thousands of debt and develop a plan that'll secure your future.
Blame your parents generation for not doing enough for you! Hold them accountable for every injustice you perceive. Look down your nose at the people who literally built the world you live in and complain about because you deserve better!
You don't deserve this! You're special.

 

[CCTelander]

That’s hilarious given you’ve literally shitposted with zero substance and that’s all. I actually address and debate.

OK Boomer!

Awww! Does somebody need a diaper changed?