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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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[/quote]

You can't be serious. You are so wrong. We inherited nothing from our parents or grandparents. [b]In fact we had financially support them in old age[/b] 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.[/quote]

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.  [/quote]

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]

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 [i]current [/i]workers are paying in.

And the whole "SS is not enough money to live on" [b]ignores completely[/b] 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.[/quote]

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. [b] Younger women take for granted that they can do any job, any occupation, any college, those are your aces[/b].[/quote]

Oh come on.  No they don't.  And nor could they. Women are still paid less, occupy fewer leadership roles than men, are still routinely harassed (yes, yes, some aren't, so lucky for them; I could write a novel on the harassment I've encountered).

And while I absolutely give you "props" for blazing the trails and opening up opportunities, there is still much be be done.[/quote]

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