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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s the Boomer’s America, the rest of us just live in it.[/quote]

You are absolutely wrong. I graduated college in the worst recession. Rationed gas, lines for miles to even get some. No jobs at all. Interest rates for mortgages were in the high teens, dropped over 2 decades slowly. We lived in apts, then THs , and either stayed there or bought a bigger place when we were READY and not everyone did, and the place wasn't huge. We were public servants- much lower salary and far less govt promotions, but we didn't travel to Europe, we bought used cars, our kids didn't go to pricey camps, but they had college paid for- because we saved. No, we didn't have marble anything, or the newest reno, but our house was great.  We both have multiple degrees, but we knew that did not translate to large salaries. We got over that and focused on what mattered.

No, I am not feeling the need to sell my hard earned and lived in house to you. Sorry. [/quote]

They had college paid for because it was a fraction of what it is today because it was heavily subsidized. You boomers cut funding. You voted yourself nice pensions and gold plated health insurance benefits. Do you think we get any of that? Think we will ever see a pension?  You also take out far more in social security than you will ever put in, Boomer. [/quote]

They didn’t have college paid for. Most boomers were the first in their families to go to college at all.  They also didn’t have [b]luxury dorms on campus, multi million dollar fitness centers, and pro team stadiums.[/b]  Our lives are different but the boomers aren’t to blame. [/quote]

The millenials are NOT the ones who were making the decisions to have those. Boomers could work a menial job and pay for college, dont gloss over that point. Boomers are the ones who made the decisions to do all of the bolded. In the 2000s many of us "millenials" were just finishing HS/finishing college. WTF.

Boomers are 1946-mid 1960s so my parents generation who were in their professional careers from the 80s-now and raising millenials. The decisions made in the 60/70/80s were due to the GI and Silent Generations and coming of age Boomers. Decisions post 80s/90/2000s were Silent Gen and BOOMER DECISIONS. Millenials did not even starting voting until 1999 and the last of us until 2014.

"In Europe and North America, many boomers came of age in a time of increasing affluence and widespread government subsidies in postwar housing and education,[6] and grew up genuinely expecting the world to improve with time.[7] Those with higher standards of living and educational levels were often the most demanding of betterment.[16][20] In the early 21st century, baby boomers in some developed countries are the single biggest cohort in their societies due to subreplacement fertility and population aging.[21] In the United States, they are the second most numerous age demographic after millennials."

So AGAIN from 1964-2010s Boomers were the largest voting block and demographic until millenials came of age. [/quote]

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