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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GenXer daughter here of two Silent Generation parents both deceased before hitting 65.

In my own family, my uncle was younger than my mom and a Baby Boomer. He was a total spoiled brat. His parents paid for his education. His in-laws let him live rent free with his new bride in their apartment over their garage. My parents paid him to renovate our attic for a year to an apartment when he was young and unemployed engineer.

Then, he became a hateful little jerk! He came from a working class background and it annoyed him and his working class wife to no end when union workers without college degrees made more money than he did. He and his wife moved to the suburbs, leaving my mom and dad to care for the elderly relatives before there were nursing homes. The old people lived in their own houses.

My uncle sold conveyor belts to factories in China, Turkey, and India. He was partly responsible for urban sprawl, white flight, urban neglect, and shipping manufacturing jobs overseas. And his wife returned to work after being home for years, and she always hated that she didn't have a college degree. She made money, though at some air conditioned office job. She then needed cheap labor to help around the house so illegal Mexicans. And boy were they snooty about their money! And yes they had two snooty daughters, and now theye have three snooty grandkids. Their daughters are not doing as well in life as they did. They truly do not see how easy they had it! And to think of the hatred they showed toward other working class people from their own neighborhood.

Even in my own family I see it with the Baby Boom generation and their desire to consume cheap labor and cheap goods from outside the U.S. and they had and still harbor resentment toward American union workers.

Why did they not see that a union worker with a good income was generating money into their local economy? Greed and gluttony and competitive nature to be on top. [/quote]Sorry but your uncle was just a jerk.  I, another baby boomer, did not make him a jerk.  
This is sadly typical of some of the comments I see in these generation wars - my uncle was an asshole or my parents mistreated me - they were bad and it must be because they were baby boomers.  It couldn't have been that they were just assholes and I didn't get the family I deserved.[/quote]

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