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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh FFS, haven't read the whole thread but I was ready to defend the millennials - who face much higher student loan costs than we babyboomers did.  I am really annoyed at the attacks on that generation who are facing a difficult economy not to mention that climate change is going to screw them as well.

But then I start reading all the comments blaming everything on the babyboomers as if everyone of us deliberately caused all this to happen to you.  (Not to mention that later babyboomers like me also faced a terrible economy when we got out of school)

Time to stop this bigoted blaming of people based on what generation they belong to.  I don't care which generation you belong to, when you behave this way, it's both childish and short-sighted.  [b]We need to work together to lift everyone up.[/b]  Stop all this blaming crap.[/quote]

Funny how only the comments blaming the boomers registered with you. There are plenty of nasty posts by older generations attacking millennials too...and plenty of millenials who have expressed your message in a far more eloquent and less crass manner than you.[/quote]

Great. Are you signing up to take less of a social security payment? Not going to take Medicare? [/quote]No, I support raising the level of salary that can be taxed for Social Security because the wealthy don't pay their fair share.  I also support immigration reform because immigration has kept US society younger than European societies.  I support subsidizing young people's college tuition because they can't get established when they're struggling with student loan payments.  This is especially important for the future of our country.  So many young people can't get ahead because they are so deeply in debt - that hurts the economy and that's not good for [i]all[/i] of us. I also support national health care - especially since we're the only advanced country that doesn't have national health care.  There are many things we can do to improve our economy and these are just a few of them. And on a personal level, I exercise and eat right, which is keeping me very healthy so I won't cost you all that much as I age.  I wish more people of my generation were doing that.

But it seems to make some people on this thread happy to blame people in other generations.  And when you attribute behaviors to an entire class of people based on their demographic category, that's bigotry.  [/quote]

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