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re: Baby Boomers: The Entitled Generation?
Posted on 8/28/15 at 6:05 am to Lou Pai
Posted on 8/28/15 at 6:05 am to Lou Pai
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Baby Boomers: The Entitled Generation?
No generation that makes a meme comparing a note for a boat and student loans should ever talk about financial literacy.
Some of the issues raised in this thread are extremely complex and are attributable to voters across a wide range of age groups.
Blaming them for delaying retirement to protect their family's financial security due to rising medical costs and increased longevity is asinine. There's not some kind of grand conspiracy among them to keep all these poor millennial kids from finding jobs. Usually, these issues revolve around structural economics that are hard to define, so trying to pretend that there's some collective will among people born between 1945-1960 to frick over the future is absurd.
I'm a millennial and we should be worried a lot more about the future than pointing fingers at the Baby Boomers. There are going to be grand, unprecedented economic problems that we are going to face, and whining enviously about a previous generation like a bunch of petulant bitches is not going to help.
That, and any generation that votes overwhelmingly for Barack Obama should never talk about others being "entitled."
Finally a post worth reading. Thank you sir. I see hope for your generation....
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Posted on 8/28/15 at 6:23 am to Topisawtiger
Ya'll pretty boys with degrees are not worth a shite. Just keep taking hand outs from mom & dad. It will be ok 
Posted on 8/28/15 at 6:49 am to MondayMorningMarch
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This is America, the land of opportunity. I'm a boomer who grew up poor. I now own 3 companies that I created myself. I got no outside help.
The IRL epitome of the memes in the OP
Posted on 8/28/15 at 6:54 am to tiggerthetooth
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All true.
I am a boomer and I agree. I mostly can't stand being around people my own age.
Whatever generation is the early 30's are pretty crappy too. Pretentious douches.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 6:55 am to Tigertown in ATL
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Whatever generation is the early 30's are pretty crappy too. Pretentious douches.
:/
Posted on 8/28/15 at 6:56 am to Scruffy
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The boomers control every level of government, yet it is the younger generations' fault.
The average age of Congress is late 50s, early 60s.
As has been stated, the Boomer aren't comfortable with facts
Posted on 8/28/15 at 7:00 am to undecided
Posted on 8/28/15 at 7:03 am to SabiDojo
Wow. I wonder where all these jobs were when I got out of college.
The problem with generalizations is that they are mostly untrue, but don't let that stop you from feeling entitled.
LC
The problem with generalizations is that they are mostly untrue, but don't let that stop you from feeling entitled.
LC
Posted on 8/28/15 at 7:05 am to LongueCarabine
Posted on 8/28/15 at 7:06 am to SabiDojo
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Whatever generation is the early 30's are pretty crappy too. Pretentious douches.
:/
Rethinking this, let me change it to kids of the early boomers. Whatever age that is. The entitled generation. It's the boomers fault of course for raising them in indulgence.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 7:06 am to SabiDojo
When I don't have an answer I don't laugh, I just feel embarrassed.
Luckily, that hardly ever happens.
LC
Luckily, that hardly ever happens.
LC
Posted on 8/28/15 at 7:07 am to Rickety Cricket
quote:
quote: This is America, the land of opportunity. I'm a boomer who grew up poor. I now own 3 companies that I created myself. I got no outside help. The IRL epitome of the memes in the OP
So your view is that there is no opportunity in the your world? In these times where a kid creates a gossip site and becomes a billionaire overnight and these terrible boomers are throwing VC money at anyone with a plausible idea and plan?
Hard working, bright people will always be successful while those that aren't sit back and make excuses. There is millennial success all around you. Open your eyes.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 7:08 am to Tigertown in ATL
quote:
Rethinking this, let me change it to kids of the early boomers. Whatever age that is. The entitled generation. It's the boomers fault of course for raising them in indulgence.
:)
Posted on 8/28/15 at 7:08 am to undecided
Millennials just want a fair shot. The boomers (who refuse to leave elected office as well) are handing the millennials a gigantic pile of shite.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 7:30 am to LongueCarabine
As a gen X'er, I think both of your generations suck
SoD
SoD
Posted on 8/28/15 at 7:40 am to NewIberiaHaircut
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Yeah, go to bed old man. Don't want your blood pressure to get too high.
Snot-nosed punk in his bedroom at Mom and Dad's house trying to talk trash.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 7:44 am to MondayMorningMarch
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It must suck so hard to be gen x, gen y, mellinial. Get your noses out of your phones. Interact and actually talk to people
It can't be done. They have no idea how to interact and socialize with others except through the internet/social media pages. They are too busy checking on the 'likes' from the 834 'friends' on Facebook to care about anything else, much less get their precious hands dirty doing a job. They can't even have dinner somewhere without having the phone handy, usually on the table within quick reach should someone send them a text. I guess it does come in handy when needing information, such as how to change a flat tire, put gas in a vehicle, look up what a flathead screwdriver is, etc.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 7:45 am to LongueCarabine
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It must suck to be so stupid.
They are too stupid to actually realize they're stupid. I believe the term for them is 'blissful ignorance'.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 7:46 am to SirWinston
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Buy a fricking $25,000 house anywhere in metro NOLA or Metairie 40 years ago and it would be worth at least $400,000 today. Halfway there. Invest a mere $500 in your 401K or IRA from age 20 to 65 and BOOM there's your next $600,000.
A house that could have been purchased for that price in NOLA most likely would not be worth what you think. Considering the median home values in Louisiana in the 60-70's were about 50-55k, the neighborhood that a house could be purchased for that price would be crap.
And IRA's and 401k's weren't even available until the mid to late 70's. So with that kind of keen investment insight how many millions are you worth right now?
Posted on 8/28/15 at 7:47 am to GetCocky11
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Millennials just want a fair shot. The boomers (who refuse to leave elected office as well) are handing the millennials a gigantic pile of shite.
Tell us what you think a 'fair shot' is in your opinion.
This should be interesting.
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