Why the hate for Baby Boomers?

[Anonymous]

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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.[/quote]

So are you voting for people who are trying to make healthcare more accessible and not gutting entitlements with irresponsible tax cuts? Or are you voting.... Republican????

[Anonymous]

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

Yep. Meaning, on top of everything everyone else has listed, they're also crappy parents! Go figure.

[Anonymous]

I'm a boomer who graduated college in 1976 and bought my first home with an interest rate of 13 PERCENT, which is certainly akin to the inflated housing prices young people are now facing. I was laid off in my mid 50s with no hope of getting comparable pay/benefits in my field. Almost every person I know in my age group has a similar story yet we've funded college educations for our millennial kids and helped them purchase their first homes. Where is all this hate and entitlement coming from?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a boomer who graduated college in 1976 and bought my first home with an interest rate of 13 PERCENT, which is certainly akin to the inflated housing prices young people are now facing. I was laid off in my mid 50s with no hope of getting comparable pay/benefits in my field. Almost every person I know in my age group has a similar story yet we've funded college educations for our millennial kids and helped them purchase their first homes. Where is all this hate and entitlement coming from?

Did you read the thread?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a boomer who graduated college in 1976 and bought my first home with an interest rate of 13 PERCENT, which is certainly akin to the inflated housing prices young people are now facing. I was laid off in my mid 50s with no hope of getting comparable pay/benefits in my field. Almost every person I know in my age group has a similar story yet we've funded college educations for our millennial kids and helped them purchase their first homes. Where is all this hate and entitlement coming from?

I never had any negative perceptions about Millenials until this thread. Pretty shocking to see how self-centric and ungrateful some of them are. Hopefully they will grow out of it.

[Anonymous]

Boomers are not Republicans FYI.

[Anonymous]

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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!!!!

Your Dad not the leader of the boomer generation, he is just man who made questionable choices. I have a Millenial nephew who was on his third divorce by age 30 (with 4 kids), one niece who has been divorced twice by early thirties with kids from both and other Millenials relatives who are unmarried with kids. I don't think the whole generation is defined by their mistakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boomers are not Republicans FYI.

Statistically, they are more "conservative" than younger generations:

http://news.gallup.com/poll/181325/baby-boomers-likely-identify-conservative.aspx

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!!!!

Your Dad not the leader of the boomer generation, he is just man who made questionable choices. I have a Millenial nephew who was on his third divorce by age 30 (with 4 kids), one niece who has been divorced twice by early thirties with kids from both and other Millenials relatives who are unmarried with kids. I don't think the whole generation is defined by their mistakes.

"The American public, though, has been pretty clear about its intentions. An informal reader poll from The Washington Post in 2014 found that an overwhelming majority of readers supported the idea of raising the payroll tax earnings cap on wealthier Americans". https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2017/01/16/79-of-americans-favor-social-security-benefit-cuts-new-survey/21656108/

which party is it that is cutting taxes on the wealthy again?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Again, false. Congratulations on not understanding Social Security. It is an entitlement, not a savings account. The first generation to draw payments NEVER PAID IN. It was established to alleviate poverty in the senior citizen cohort, not to pay back workers their own contributions.

Just because later generations paid in and get paid out doesn't mean the system is set up to pay you your own contributions. You're drawing what current workers are paying in.

And the whole "SS is not enough money to live on" ignores completely that previous generations had ZERO government help paying for their parents in old age. Once again, you're dealt aces and then act like you had it harder than everyone else. Classic Boomer.

[Anonymous]

I know one thing for sure about the Boomers, they raised a bunch of spoiled ass children.

[Anonymous]

We are boomers and life long Dems, as were our parents and hopefully our children will remain Dems. I know many like-minded boomers who have accumulated wealth, but we haven't changed our liberal values. We were/are the original hippies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Again, false. Congratulations on not understanding Social Security. It is an entitlement, not a savings account. The first generation to draw payments NEVER PAID IN. It was established to alleviate poverty in the senior citizen cohort, not to pay back workers their own contributions.

Just because later generations paid in and get paid out doesn't mean the system is set up to pay you your own contributions. You're drawing what current workers are paying in.

And the whole "SS is not enough money to live on" ignores completely that previous generations had ZERO government help paying for their parents in old age. Once again, you're dealt aces and then act like you had it harder than everyone else. Classic Boomer.

My parents paid into SS and they likely paid in more than they drew out. But that's OK, it's for the greater good of society.

My mothers generation of women had a sh*tty deal. As a girl growing up my career choices were 'wife/mother", secretary, nurse or teacher - That's it, and the first one was most important in society - otherwise you failed. It was hard being a woman in my generation trying to get an education or a job outside of those limited choices let alone get paid fairly. We were on the bleeding edge of change, it was not fun, sexual harassment was tool used to deter us from mens workplaces. Those were the aces we were dealt. Younger women take for granted that they can do any job, any occupation, any college, those are your aces.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know one thing for sure about the Boomers, they raised a bunch of spoiled ass children.

+100 The road to he11 is paved with good intentions.

[Anonymous]

Actually, Boomers don't really care about their children. Their adult children are accessories for them to show off to other Boomers in case those children are successful. I know three Millennial couples, all children of middle class Boomer parents, who live in tiny one or two bedroom apartments with their kids because their Boomer parents need to live lavish life in their big houses. I wish there was a vomit emoticon. It would aptly express how I feel about Boomers.