Why the hate for Baby Boomers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was in my 20-30's, I paid student loans, drove a beater car, I lived with roommates, bought a condo, then a TH then a SFH. It took years of saving to be able to afford an nice SFH in a good neighborhood.

It seems like younger people think that baby boomers had wealth drop out of the sky. Boomers have wealth from decades of working and investing. If you are young you will have wealth, it will take time, just stick with it. Also, if your parents are boomers you will likely inherit from them. We got nothing from our parents estates, because there was nothing left.

Stop whining.

What are you doing NOW to ensure that the younger generation has the same opportunities that you had? How are you going to address the shrinking middle class, loss of unions, lag in wages compared in growth of GDP, unaffordable college, concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, loss of pensions, tax cuts for the rich, looming bankruptcy of social security, failing publice schools, unaffordable health care, poisoned environment, etc. etc?

[Anonymous]

Some boomers have raised some real jerk offs I can see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was in my 20-30's, I paid student loans, drove a beater car, I lived with roommates, bought a condo, then a TH then a SFH. It took years of saving to be able to afford an nice SFH in a good neighborhood.

It seems like younger people think that baby boomers had wealth drop out of the sky. Boomers have wealth from decades of working and investing. If you are young you will have wealth, it will take time, just stick with it. Also, if your parents are boomers you will likely inherit from them. We got nothing from our parents estates, because there was nothing left.

Stop whining.

What are you doing NOW to ensure that the younger generation has the same opportunities that you had? How are you going to address the shrinking middle class, loss of unions, lag in wages compared in growth of GDP, unaffordable college, concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, loss of pensions, tax cuts for the rich, looming bankruptcy of social security, failing publice schools, unaffordable health care, poisoned environment, etc. etc?

I would turn this question back onto you and your generation. My generation is transitioning out of power and yours in power now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was in my 20-30's, I paid student loans, drove a beater car, I lived with roommates, bought a condo, then a TH then a SFH. It took years of saving to be able to afford an nice SFH in a good neighborhood.

It seems like younger people think that baby boomers had wealth drop out of the sky. Boomers have wealth from decades of working and investing. If you are young you will have wealth, it will take time, just stick with it. Also, if your parents are boomers you will likely inherit from them. We got nothing from our parents estates, because there was nothing left.

Stop whining.

What are you doing NOW to ensure that the younger generation has the same opportunities that you had? How are you going to address the shrinking middle class, loss of unions, lag in wages compared in growth of GDP, unaffordable college, concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, loss of pensions, tax cuts for the rich, looming bankruptcy of social security, failing publice schools, unaffordable health care, poisoned environment, etc. etc?

I would turn this question back onto you and your generation. My generation is transitioning out of power and yours in power now.

Millenials are the largest group in our population, more than the boomers. There is strength in numbers and remember this - no one gives you power, you take it.
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-113.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was in my 20-30's, I paid student loans, drove a beater car, I lived with roommates, bought a condo, then a TH then a SFH. It took years of saving to be able to afford an nice SFH in a good neighborhood.

It seems like younger people think that baby boomers had wealth drop out of the sky. Boomers have wealth from decades of working and investing. If you are young you will have wealth, it will take time, just stick with it. Also, if your parents are boomers you will likely inherit from them. We got nothing from our parents estates, because there was nothing left.

Stop whining.

What are you doing NOW to ensure that the younger generation has the same opportunities that you had? How are you going to address the shrinking middle class, loss of unions, lag in wages compared in growth of GDP, unaffordable college, concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, loss of pensions, tax cuts for the rich, looming bankruptcy of social security, failing publice schools, unaffordable health care, poisoned environment, etc. etc?

I would turn this question back onto you and your generation. My generation is transitioning out of power and yours in power now.

Your generation literally just elected Trump. And therefore Pruitt eliminating environmental protections one at a time. We will happily reclaim the wheel in November.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was in my 20-30's, I paid student loans, drove a beater car, I lived with roommates, bought a condo, then a TH then a SFH. It took years of saving to be able to afford an nice SFH in a good neighborhood.

It seems like younger people think that baby boomers had wealth drop out of the sky. Boomers have wealth from decades of working and investing. If you are young you will have wealth, it will take time, just stick with it. Also, if your parents are boomers you will likely inherit from them. We got nothing from our parents estates, because there was nothing left.

Stop whining.

What are you doing NOW to ensure that the younger generation has the same opportunities that you had? How are you going to address the shrinking middle class, loss of unions, lag in wages compared in growth of GDP, unaffordable college, concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, loss of pensions, tax cuts for the rich, looming bankruptcy of social security, failing publice schools, unaffordable health care, poisoned environment, etc. etc?

I would turn this question back onto you and your generation. My generation is transitioning out of power and yours in power now.

Your generation literally just elected Trump. And therefore Pruitt eliminating environmental protections one at a time. We will happily reclaim the wheel in November.

Since Millenials are the largest group of voters, they are to blame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The constant sh#$ talking of millenials and the economic ruin you've left to us mostly.

But mostly the first one, ya'll are mean selfish bullies

Here we go. The inter-generational war starting up again. People, don't do it! Please refrain from making sweeping generalizations about other generations.

Remember, judging someone and attributing stereotypical traits to them just because of the demographic group they belong to is bigotry. Don't be a bigot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boomers are the locust generation.

They spent all their grandparents money, all their parents money, all their own money, all their kids money, and are now running up debts to steal their grandchildren's money.

All of this to fuel their own pointless hedonism.

They inherited utopia and bequeathed us a hell-hole.

Fck you, Boomers.

Sincerely,

Generation X

You can't be serious. You are so wrong. We inherited nothing from our parents or grandparents. In fact we had financially support them in old age and take care of them physically as they were dying while raising our own kids. Our parents never paid for our college, cars, vacations, weddings. We didn't resent it, in fact it made us work hard and value a dollar.

No. False. You were the first generation to NOT have to support your parents because Social Security was there. Your parents supported their parents. The government supported yours.

And you didn't work hard. You worked 9-5, went home and didn't think about work until 8:59 the next day. I have to answer emails and calls at 1 am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They took relative prosperity and crested laws that protected their wealth but screwed over everyone after them: pensions, laws, taxpayer dollars for elderly services instead of education, raising age of social security. On and on. They also benefited greatly from the housing boom and cheap colleges.

That's right, our evil plot to deliberately deprive you of a happy life succeeded! (BTW that's sarcasm in case you can't tell.)

[Anonymous]

I'm a Millenial and I got nothing against boomers. My fellow millenials are spoiled, entitled little children who do not appreciate that they

1) benefitted from their Boomer parents' advantages (growing up middle class, children of educated parents, health care)

2) are themselves extremely privileged when compared to 99% of the rest of the world; many received free college educations from mom and dad, material wealth that the Boomers did not have and that humanity has never known (at the cost of the poor working class of the second and third world)

3) expect too high of a standard of living, do not save, and thus cannot afford a basic SFH. Spend on traveling, eating out, organic food, buying crap they shouldn't (iPhones every 2 years, constantly having a car payment), living paycheck to paycheck.

If anything, you Boomers are to blame for raising Millenials to be such entitled asses. You coddled them all their lives, now they're mad you're not handing over more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The constant sh#$ talking of millenials and the economic ruin you've left to us mostly.

But mostly the first one, ya'll are mean selfish bullies

Whaaat?

Millennial here - I don't hate you but that's because I got mine. Two properties in DC. However my friends all across the U.S. can't stand boomers. They see their parents and ILs sitting on valuable SFHs they can no longer use but no one else the millenials age can afford. They've heard the stories of homes bought in Seattle for $14,000 in the 70s and 80s now worth more than $1M. Homes in DC bought for $200,000 now worth the same. They know they're priced out and to them it's incredibly unfair.

I'm sorry that their parents suck. They deserve better parents. But I and other people my age did not make their parents bad people. They accomplished that entirely on their own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They took relative prosperity and crested laws that protected their wealth but screwed over everyone after them: pensions, laws, taxpayer dollars for elderly services instead of education, raising age of social security. On and on. They also benefited greatly from the housing boom and cheap colleges.

+1000. Such greed and hypocrisy. And the environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boomers are the locust generation.

They spent all their grandparents money, all their parents money, all their own money, all their kids money, and are now running up debts to steal their grandchildren's money.

All of this to fuel their own pointless hedonism.

They inherited utopia and bequeathed us a hell-hole.

Fck you, Boomers.

Sincerely,

Generation X

You can't be serious. You are so wrong. We inherited nothing from our parents or grandparents. In fact we had financially support them in old age and take care of them physically as they were dying while raising our own kids. Our parents never paid for our college, cars, vacations, weddings. We didn't resent it, in fact it made us work hard and value a dollar.

No. False. You were the first generation to NOT have to support your parents because Social Security was there. Your parents supported their parents. The government supported yours.

And you didn't work hard. You worked 9-5, went home and didn't think about work until 8:59 the next day. I have to answer emails and calls at 1 am.

People who draw Social Security had to pay into SS during their working lives, it's not welfare, it's their money. Also SS is not enough to live on and therefore we had to financial support our parents who's SS payments were not enough to pay for medication and medical care. You must be very young because you don't understand much about real adult life . We hope we are not a financial burden to our Millenial kids, in fact we would like to leave them some inheritance in addition to paying for their college educations. Our parents did neither for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was in my 20-30's, I paid student loans, drove a beater car, I lived with roommates, bought a condo, then a TH then a SFH. It took years of saving to be able to afford an nice SFH in a good neighborhood.

It seems like younger people think that baby boomers had wealth drop out of the sky. Boomers have wealth from decades of working and investing. If you are young you will have wealth, it will take time, just stick with it. Also, if your parents are boomers you will likely inherit from them. We got nothing from our parents estates, because there was nothing left.

Stop whining.

What are you doing NOW to ensure that the younger generation has the same opportunities that you had? How are you going to address the shrinking middle class, loss of unions, lag in wages compared in growth of GDP, unaffordable college, concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, loss of pensions, tax cuts for the rich, looming bankruptcy of social security, failing publice schools, unaffordable health care, poisoned environment, etc. etc?

I would turn this question back onto you and your generation. My generation is transitioning out of power and yours in power now.

I'm resisting Republican policies. Are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They took relative prosperity and crested laws that protected their wealth but screwed over everyone after them: pensions, laws, taxpayer dollars for elderly services instead of education, raising age of social security. On and on. They also benefited greatly from the housing boom and cheap colleges.

That's right, our evil plot to deliberately deprive you of a happy life succeeded! (BTW that's sarcasm in case you can't tell.)

I don't think you have an "evil plot"; I think you are just selfish.

My dad had a second batch of kids at middle age. I asked him once, "wouldn't you rather give up your SS than see your 20 year old son have to suffer and struggle to pay your SS that you don't need?" My dad is wealthy.

NOPE! Mine, Mine, Mine!!!!