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

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?  [/quote]

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

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

Since Millenials are the largest group of voters, they are to blame.[/quote]
Are you daft? Millennials and Xers voted for Clinton by a huge and large margins, respectively. And many more Boomers and older voted for Trump.
[img]http://blogs-images.forbes.com/niallmccarthy/files/2016/11/20161109_Election.jpg[/img][/quote]

The truth is that less than half of the Gen x and Millenials even voted, if more had voted Hillary would have won.  Most younger voters didn't even show up to vote, that why she lost. The younger voters were the lowest turn out in a critical election.  They own the outcome.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/05/12/black-voter-turnout-fell-in-2016-even-as-a-record-number-of-americans-cast-ballots/ft_17-05-12_voterturnout_millennialnew/[/quote]

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