Anonymous
Post 04/26/2018 20:41     Subject: Why the hate for Baby Boomers?
Anonymous wrote:They took relative prosperity and crested laws that protected their wealth but screwed over everyone after them: pensions, laws, taxpayer dollars for elderly services instead of education, raising age of social security. On and on. They also benefited greatly from the housing boom and cheap colleges.


Ehhh I think you can pin the loss of pensions and raised social security age on the greatest generation outliving the actuarial tables and taking far more out than they ever put in. My 64 year old father lost the majority of his pension benefits when the company he worked for his whole adult life went bankrupt 15 years ago. There are plenty of other boomers with similar experiences. I suppose we can blame them for the skyrocketing college costs since they are the ones who told us we all need college. That’s a lie, most jobs could be learned with hands on experience.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2018 20:21     Subject: Why the hate for Baby Boomers?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Uhhh boomers basically destroyed all the great American institutions that they benefited from - affordable higher education, pensions, jobs, etc. To really rub it in, you even elected Trump.

So, yeah, nobody likes you. Go away already.

This. A million times this.


Not only this, but they largely refuse to acknowledge the huge advantages they had, that they personally benefited from, and then destroyed, shuttered, or bankrupted. So not only are millennials locked out of the benefits (education without loans, fixed-benefit retirement packages, jobs with yearly COLA and raises that allowed a person to enter at entry level with as little as a high-school education), but they also have to listen to Boomers wax poetic about how they got to where they are by hard work and a can-do attitude or some other such nonsense.

-Gen X


Absolutely this. Another Gen x-er. And i'm someone who believes there's never been a generation as hard working as millennials. Boomers are lazy, greedy and mean.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2018 20:11     Subject: Why the hate for Baby Boomers?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Uhhh boomers basically destroyed all the great American institutions that they benefited from - affordable higher education, pensions, jobs, etc. To really rub it in, you even elected Trump.

So, yeah, nobody likes you. Go away already.

This. A million times this.


Not only this, but they largely refuse to acknowledge the huge advantages they had, that they personally benefited from, and then destroyed, shuttered, or bankrupted. So not only are millennials locked out of the benefits (education without loans, fixed-benefit retirement packages, jobs with yearly COLA and raises that allowed a person to enter at entry level with as little as a high-school education), but they also have to listen to Boomers wax poetic about how they got to where they are by hard work and a can-do attitude or some other such nonsense.

-Gen X
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2018 20:06     Subject: Why the hate for Baby Boomers?
Anonymous wrote:Uhhh boomers basically destroyed all the great American institutions that they benefited from - affordable higher education, pensions, jobs, etc. To really rub it in, you even elected Trump.

So, yeah, nobody likes you. Go away already.

This. A million times this.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2018 20:03     Subject: Why the hate for Baby Boomers?
Anonymous wrote:Uhhh boomers basically destroyed all the great American institutions that they benefited from - affordable higher education, pensions, jobs, etc. To really rub it in, you even elected Trump.

So, yeah, nobody likes you. Go away already.


+1. We will never have it as good as you did, because of you. Haven’t you gotten enough? We don’t have to like you on top of that.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2018 20:03     Subject: Why the hate for Baby Boomers?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The constant sh#$ talking of millenials and the economic ruin you've left to us mostly.

But mostly the first one, ya'll are mean selfish bullies


Whaaat?


Millennial here - I don't hate you but that's because I got mine. Two properties in DC. However my friends all across the U.S. can't stand boomers. They see their parents and ILs sitting on valuable SFHs they can no longer use but no one else the millenials age can afford. They've heard the stories of homes bought in Seattle for $14,000 in the 70s and 80s now worth more than $1M. Homes in DC bought for $200,000 now worth the same. They know they're priced out and to them it's incredibly unfair.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2018 19:59     Subject: Re:Why the hate for Baby Boomers?
Totally normal. All younger generations think they "get it" and the old folks ruined everything. All the older generations think the younger ones are weak, poorly behaved whiners. I think Socrates wrote about this.


This. When Boomers were young it was "Don't trust anyone over thirty."
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2018 19:53     Subject: Re:Why the hate for Baby Boomers?
Totally normal. All younger generations think they "get it" and the old folks ruined everything. All the older generations think the younger ones are weak, poorly behaved whiners. I think Socrates wrote about this.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2018 19:50     Subject: Why the hate for Baby Boomers?
That's so stupid and untrue. I don't remember doing any of those things.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2018 19:28     Subject: Why the hate for Baby Boomers?
Anonymous wrote:The constant sh#$ talking of millenials and the economic ruin you've left to us mostly.

But mostly the first one, ya'll are mean selfish bullies



Yepper. Enjoy the gig economic my and healthcare from CVS, sniveler. I got mine and don't GAF
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2018 19:26     Subject: Why the hate for Baby Boomers?
Uhhh boomers basically destroyed all the great American institutions that they benefited from - affordable higher education, pensions, jobs, etc. To really rub it in, you even elected Trump.

So, yeah, nobody likes you. Go away already.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2018 19:23     Subject: Why the hate for Baby Boomers?
They took relative prosperity and crested laws that protected their wealth but screwed over everyone after them: pensions, laws, taxpayer dollars for elderly services instead of education, raising age of social security. On and on. They also benefited greatly from the housing boom and cheap colleges.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2018 19:19     Subject: Why the hate for Baby Boomers?
Anonymous wrote:The constant sh#$ talking of millenials and the economic ruin you've left to us mostly.

But mostly the first one, ya'll are mean selfish bullies


Whaaat?
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2018 19:08     Subject: Why the hate for Baby Boomers?
The constant sh#$ talking of millenials and the economic ruin you've left to us mostly.

But mostly the first one, ya'll are mean selfish bullies
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2018 19:05     Subject: Why the hate for Baby Boomers?
From the younger generations?