I am sick and tired of the baby boomers.

[Anonymous]

Hey millenials turn down the volume and THINK before carrying on with this silly (and at times vicious) pity party. A lot of the laws that are in place today, most in fact, were enacted by the folks that proceeded the Boomers. The Boomers (definted as born between 1946 and 1964, by the way) are as a group by no means a monolith. I was born at the tail end and graduated college in 1982 with debt and walked into what was then the worst recession since the Depression. Sound familiar? My parents were Depression era folks and we lived modestly, not because we had to but because my parents were afraid it could all vaporize one day. In any event, tons of second wave Boomers will get screwed if the first wave cuts benefits.

Whatever happened to "we're all in this together." This generation ruckus is for the birds. And painting a group that spans 18 years is ludicrous. Lots of Boomers were 10 the summer of Woodstock, and did not attend!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey millenials turn down the volume and THINK before carrying on with this silly (and at times vicious) pity party. A lot of the laws that are in place today, most in fact, were enacted by the folks that proceeded the Boomers. The Boomers (definted as born between 1946 and 1964, by the way) are as a group by no means a monolith. I was born at the tail end and graduated college in 1982 with debt and walked into what was then the worst recession since the Depression. Sound familiar? My parents were Depression era folks and we lived modestly, not because we had to but because my parents were afraid it could all vaporize one day. In any event, tons of second wave Boomers will get screwed if the first wave cuts benefits.

Whatever happened to "we're all in this together." This generation ruckus is for the birds. And painting a group that spans 18 years is ludicrous. Lots of Boomers were 10 the summer of Woodstock, and did not attend!

Yeah but you had plenty of time to repeal these policies, it wasn't like you couldnt stop them. If you thought for ONE second about your kids or the next generations rather than ME ME ME ME it would've prevented the lowered living standards the younger generation now must endure.

[Anonymous]

ME ME ME ME

Umm...the Boomers are not the "me" generation. A short scan through this thread proves that. In any event, Social Security is not the cause of all ills in this country. Many of the Boomers (particularly those of us at he tail end of the boom) never expected to receive an SS and have planned our lives accordingly. We have too many entitlements in this country and no one is willing to touch those programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Precisely, PP. Social Security was never designed to serve as greens fees for healthy 67-year-olds with hundreds of thousands in retirement accounts. Bring on the means testing! I don't care how much you've paid into it, boomers.

+1

My grandparents sold the house in Walnut Creek, CA that they bought in 1972 for $41k in 2005 for $850k, moved to Vegas and bought a house for $150k and are living large. Grandpa gambles his SS checks every single month. The ENTIRE check. It is disgusting. We pay taxes for him to play Keno.

Yes, let's all get in line and collect our rations. Each and every person should get a paycheck/SS check that is the EXACT SAME AMOUNT. No more, no less. No matter if you're a lawyer, grocer, or retiree. That will solve everything. Oh, and while we're at it, let's have the government ration our food as well. Each person should get one loaf of bread, one gallon of milk, etc. per week. That way YOU can't get pissed at Grandpa if he spends his SS check on something different than what you spend your (exact same amount) paycheck on. If you want equal - then go all the way and make it completely equal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a Gen Yer and I think Gen Xers sound like entitled whiners who cry because things aren't fair. Life isn't fair. Get over it. Things have changed and bitching about how much easier it was for baby boomers isn't going to change things.

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.

Baby boomer pp who criticized OP here - yes, I should say that if there is any generation I feel sorry for, it's the youngest people coming out of high school and college trying to find jobs in this economy right now. I really feel for you guys and I hope things get better. Our society needs you and we need you to be on a much firmer footing than you are now!

Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a member of Gerneration X, I am tired of having to pay for debts created by baby boomers to pay for benefits for baby boomers. If you were born between 1943 and 1960, I'm talking to you. And it is only getting worse. The changes to Medicare being dicussed will have the greatest effect not on the baby boomers but on those of us who follow in their wake. Just because you wasted all you money to buy a micro bus in the 60s, bell bottoms in the 70s, power suits in the 80s and pad thai in the 90s, doesn't mean that I want to bail you out. Let me talk to you in language you can understand, "Why don't you all just fff...fade away, I'm talkin' about [your] generation."

Another thing, The Beatles are over rated.

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.

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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.

Pp here. See, you can't even grasp how your post is really all about you. I've been through some hard times in my life, some of which was caused by the generation I belong to and how the job market was affected by the previous generations. I've learned to recognize when some things have happened due to my bad luck due to current social conditions and when some things are my fault. But I don't whine about it and I don't blame millions of people I don't even know for having been lucky enough to have been born at a different time. But you don't understand the difference between recognizing your challenges and facing up to them versus whining and blaming others. That's sad.

[Anonymous]

First of all, the US standard of living began to decline in the 1970s, before first wave Boomers ascended to power positions in the workplace and in elected office. What is happening today is not all on the Boomers, for crying out loud. It's multivariate and multigenerational. Try Wall Street, the bankers, the CEO's, companies sitting on billions of cash, lots of it parked in overseas investments, instead of hiring.

Also, are you aware how rampant age discrimination is? I know tons of second wave Boomers who are struggling because they've had to reinvent themselves due to the economy, shifts in labor demand and also not advancing as far in their careers because of first wave Boomers? Do you hear Boomers wishing millenials dead, as several people have done on this thread about Boomers, because they get passed over for millenials? I don't. Grow up. Suck it up. Go read a book on U.S. economic history and CONTEXTUALIZE.

[Anonymous]

I'm also a member of Generation X with 2 retired baby boomer parents who are comfortable but have no additional income for luxury.

I'm baffled by the hatred of this thread toward the baby boomers and embarrassed by my fellow Gen Xers.

[Anonymous]

Also the Boomers are cutting other Boomers' benefits, and lower benefits mean they will spend down their savings and not enjoy their retirement as much. I mean, the simplistic and sometimes flawed reasoning here makes me wonder about the quality of education in the U.S.! And don't you dare accuse me of not thinking of my children! Them's fighting words!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I people were talking about the social security crisis due to the number of baby boomers since the 1980s, yet the bponders did nothing to fix it. The fact is that they will, as a group, take out more money from the system than the put into it. The fixes being talked about now, to take effect 10 plus Yeats from now, will help them and hurt the rest of us.

Oh. It's being talked about.

We are the superior generation.

[Anonymous]

Actually they did pit in a fix. It was done in 83. It turned out not to be enough but it was a good faith effort and it did fix a big problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They'll be dead soon.

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.

Typical Boomer tactic: trying to control kids with money. I am a Gen Xer who paid for my college education, wedding, and house. If I can't afford it I don't own it and I like it that way. I already know I won't inherit a cent from my parents when they pass. But I will always be grateful to them for raising me to be financially, spiritually, and emotionally independent. So when I call them or write them or visit them it's because I -- gasp! -- actually love them, not because I am appeasing them in hopes of financial gain.

No. WRONG.

Not "control kids with money." Rather, observe, assess and act upon behavior towards others and choose not to reward bad behavior.

Act like an asshole? Don't expect a gold star, a pat on the back, and a raise in your allowance. Or a big inheritance.

There is a gulf miles wide between "appeasing" your parents in hopes of financial gain vs. not acting like a self-centered, entitled asshole.

The apparent inability to see the difference is evidence of the lack of critical thinking and analytical skills among certain people that's been mentioned during this thread.

Your logic here = massive fail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey millenials turn down the volume and THINK before carrying on with this silly (and at times vicious) pity party. A lot of the laws that are in place today, most in fact, were enacted by the folks that proceeded the Boomers. The Boomers (definted as born between 1946 and 1964, by the way) are as a group by no means a monolith. I was born at the tail end and graduated college in 1982 with debt and walked into what was then the worst recession since the Depression. Sound familiar? My parents were Depression era folks and we lived modestly, not because we had to but because my parents were afraid it could all vaporize one day. In any event, tons of second wave Boomers will get screwed if the first wave cuts benefits.

Whatever happened to "we're all in this together." This generation ruckus is for the birds. And painting a group that spans 18 years is ludicrous. Lots of Boomers were 10 the summer of Woodstock, and did not attend!

Can you even read? A Gen Xer brought up this conversation and it appears only two millennial have even responded. Wtf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"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.

This makes absolutely no sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a Gen Yer and I think Gen Xers sound like entitled whiners who cry because things aren't fair. Life isn't fair. Get over it. Things have changed and bitching about how much easier it was for baby boomers isn't going to change things.

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.

Baby boomer pp who criticized OP here - yes, I should say that if there is any generation I feel sorry for, it's the youngest people coming out of high school and college trying to find jobs in this economy right now. I really feel for you guys and I hope things get better. Our society needs you and we need you to be on a much firmer footing than you are now!

Good luck!

Gen Yer PP you quoted. Thank you so much!