I am sick and tired of the baby boomers.
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Anonymous
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Wow, a lot of vitriol on this thread. There should be a warning for folks with high blood pressure....
Depending on the whims of the demographic analyst, I am either the youngest boomer or the oldest Gen Xer aka the Jones Generation. Sadly, nearly all folks on this thread are unable to see the "gray" of the situation and, moreover, let the real seniors (68+ aka "the Greatest Generation") off the hook (plenty of blame to pass around here). There are boomers who are clueless, Gen Xers who are spoilt, and seniors who don't give a damn. But there are also folks in all of those cohorts who are truly struggling to get by. Just because one's ILs worked for the feds and made bank, does not mean that all boomers and seniors glide between NoVA and SoFlo every six months with nary a care. And for every Gen Xer (and Yer and millenial) with every gadget, there are others with modest cellphones counting their texts, etc as they cannot afford smart phones with unlimited plans due to college loans, childcare costs, etc. We have a dysfunctional political system where the folks paying the piper call the tunes. Gen X, Y, and millenial, you need to get in the street and show up on election day if you want change. Boomers and seniors, you need to share in the pain. And folks, stop kvetching back and forth about old-fashioned or immature. Neither accurate nor becoming. |
Anonymous
| Steve Jobs was a boomer -- "no skill set to create products" there, huh? |
Anonymous
I am guessing your father is a white man? Economy concerns aside, 30 years ago, there was not as much competition. Today, he would have to compete against women, minorities and immigrants that had the same qualifications as him. That is part of the reason those boomers were so successful. The deck was far more stacked in their favor. |
Anonymous
Wow, everything is about you, isn't it? I know many fine members of your generation and none of them is absorbed with self-pity the way you are. And, btw, honey, you won't be bailing me out because I have worked hard and spent wisely. You'd best save your money and spend it on your therapist bills so you can figure out why you're blaming whole generations of people you don't even know for your personal failures. |
Anonymous
Oh lord, I have neighbors who are security guards, cashiers, or who are too disabled to work. Why should I feel sorry for you when I know kids who work hard but are still reading years below their grade and will have a hard time getting anything besides a job at McDonalds? Since when did the world owe you so damn much? Talk about feeling entitled! |
Anonymous
Yeah, we bought in 2002 and paid $145k for a house in what my daughter describes as the ghetto (lots of public housing next door) at a time when we were making far less than 180k because we were careful with our money and we didn't feel entitled to buy your so-called "equivalent sized boomer house." Yes, we were lucky that we bought before 2005. Yes we were lucky that the neighborhood gentrified around us. But we only bought what we could afford. Why don't you go live in a poor neighborhood first before you start whining about your "equivalent sized boomer house." You might appreciate what you have when you live next to folks who sweep floors for a living. It certainly made me count my blessings when I saw how my neighbor who is a security guard works seven days a week to get by. |
Anonymous
How is your response even relevant? He clearly worked hard. What difference does it make that your neighbors are cashiers, unless they spent years in graduate programs getting advanced degrees? He never said the world owed him anything--he worked hard, and is still not getting by. THAT'S his point. Your reading comprehension isn't too great, either. |
Anonymous
| The Beatles were TOTALLY overrated. +1 |
Anonymous
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what a pathetic thread and a pathetic bunch of whining from holier-than-thou people who proclaim themselves as better than an older cohort but sound like they are at least as self-entitled, self-centered, narcissistic, and shallow as those they criticize.
Add to that the chronic inability to spell or form coherent paragraphs (thoughts) and you have a disaster in the making: a "gimme" mentality cloaked in mediocre substance & performance. Jeez, grow up; have some cheese with your whine. |
Anonymous
Amen to this. Gex Xers come across as a lost and whiny lot. The aforementioned hardships will fall primarily on our shoulders (gen y). All of us who've graduated from undergrad the last few years have dealt with job scarcity and ballooning college tuitions and have all the right in the world to be as upset as OP. Instead, we move home, take several jobs at a time, scrimp, save, and delay milestones like having children a buying homes. All the while being maligned for our use of technology and social media, as if inventions that happened to come along during our lifetime somehow make us inherently shallow, entitled, or impatient. No one generation can break or fix America. Truthfully, every generation probably thinks the one before it is full of fuckups. |
Anonymous
| WTF people?? The Beatles are not overrated. |
Anonymous
Heh! Don't count on that! Many of us are happily in great health! 
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Anonymous
not nearly as soon as you think ... and if my kid(s) were the kind of snivelling snotty little shits that folks like you appear to be, I'd be sure that none of the considerable amount we've saved/earned in years of hard work get passed down to you. So by being rude, angry, entitled, etc., some of you will talk yourselves into a more limited and uncomfortable life than you might have by alienating some of the source of possible financial relief, in lesser or greater amounts, as inter-generational wealth transfer happens --- or doesn't. 
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Anonymous
. How is the first post all about me? I'm concerned for my children. Face it, your generation is the me, me, me generation and, as a group, you take more than you have given. You have the numbers to control the political system and, as a group, you do. My generation is working hard; harder than yours ever did. We have to. Who is going to pay off the debt your group leaves behind. |
Anonymous
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"WTF people?? The Beatles are not overrated. "
The Beatles sound like an insane marching band with lyrics that have been translated from English to Japanese back to English. |