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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the person above:  where I live, there are a lot of older boomer women who have literally never worked a day in their lives.  they spend their days going to bible studies and out to eat, swimming at the y and bragging about their grandchildren.  I had never read an obituary before for someone who had never worked.  They are strange.

So yes, I do think it's wrong that the government provides free healthcare to women who have never worked a day in their lives, while children go without.  I don't buy the argument that everything every boomer has is because they earned it, and that they have earned so much more than the rest of us.

and suggesting that since they suffered we should suffer to sounds a bit like those people that try to justify fraternity hazings.  Just make the system better.  don't think that because you put up with it, we should put up with it too. [/quote]

Are the older boomer women you know all child free? And they had household help to do all the cooking and cleaning?

The older boomer women I know who stayed at home all worked very hard taking care of their children, cooking, cleaning, doing all the yard work. Plus, they volunteered at their children’s schools and activities. Sure, no one gave them a paycheck for the work they were doing, but they worked pretty darn hard.

They spent those years being very frugal and never indulging in extras because they were making one income work for the whole family. Not all work is paid, but all work is valuable. 
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