re: Boomers and long-term impact on younger generations

No one inherited more and gave less than Boomers.

Americas greatest generation were the hard men's that created good times

Boomer are the soft men who were created by good times

No generation was worse with endless wars, mass unchecked migration, inflation, LGBTQIA+, affirmative action/DEI and let all of our major cities completely erode.


Americas coming back but zero thanks to boomers. As soon as they all die out we won't have to continue to send our children to die for Israel and we won't spend billions on their safety anymore. We'll actually prioritize Americans and hand our kids something better than we got.

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Get a real degree or job skill and talk to people instead of staring at your phone or sitting around playing video games and you will do great. Having a skill and a network is the key.

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Lol says the fricking pos who’s comrades in Washington are in the process of trying to raise taxes on anyone under 60 by 12.5% to fund your ss and Medicare

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Don’t fall into that trap of blaming someone else for your problems.

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Not everyone is blameless though

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Since then, it feels like the pattern hasn’t changed. Wealth and property have continued to concentrate, housing is harder to access, and politically, the same generation is still firmly in control. A lot of them just don’t step aside—they stay in power well past typical retirement age.

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I’m far more worried about what happens when Boomers DO step aside.

You Commie’s just can’t WAIT to take another true crack at it, can you ?

I think you should have at least quoted the line “every generation blames the one before”

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It’s because today is factually the worst time in American history for the American dream. Not an opinion, just facts.

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Hmmm...I have 3 kids out in the world that prove your facts wrong.

What did I have to supply?

Encouragement
Discipline
Ethics
Morals

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The common denominator is they all work hard and take personal responsibility

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This is the absolute hard truth

More boomers and Gen X understood and were willing to go to work 40+ hours at 16-17 years of age and wait 10+ years for advancement sometimes 20
All the while making house payments they struggled to afford groceries after
All in the hopes that they would be rewarded with equity and recognition for years of service would bring them opportunity and higher wages in the long run



This is the truth

Tell a 15-year-old in the 70s or 80s this job started cleaning the bathrooms and sweeping the shop floor, and that one day he could become an assistant to an premise, and after that if he did a good job, he could become the apprentice and if he showed true skill showed up for work on time he could one day become the tradesmen or operator
If he did that job diligently, a supervisor‘s job would be in his future after maybe 20 or 25 years with the company


20 something and 30 something now go screaming into the office that they deserve more and that the 50-60 something-year-old who worked for over 25 years to get promoted into that job at 45 is clinging to the job and not moving on to create more opportunity



I’m sorry, but it’s true and this doesn’t apply all millennials or GenZ years or whatever
But it applies to a lot in a much greater proportion than generations before
And it’s not even their fault, TV movies commercials they have all created a false image of how life is supposed to be, an unrealistic and completely false image

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I would think Boomers really didn't amass total power until close to 2008ish

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You would be wrong

Maybe stop thinking

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Hey arse, it was a guess. But I was right as well as SC.

House was 1998, Senate 2008. Total control in 2008

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The House of Representatives
The 1998 midterm elections marked the exact moment Baby Boomers (defined as those born between 1946 and 1964) captured a numerical majority in the House of Representatives for the first time in history. Heading into that election cycle in late 1998, they made up just under half of the chamber.
Immediately following the November 1998 midterms, Boomers claimed a definitive majority, hitting 53% of all Representatives (roughly 230 members) by the time the next session officially gavelled in.

The U.S. Senate
The Senate took quite a bit longer to experience its Boomer takeover, as the chamber naturally trends older due to longer term lengths and higher age requirements.
In 1998, the Silent Generation (born 1925–1945) still heavily dominated the upper house, occupying roughly half of the seats.
Baby Boomers did not cross the 50% threshold in the Senate until a full decade later, achieving a 52% majority in 2008.

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Boomers became a majority in the House of Representatives in 1998

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Not sure I follow your logic on this one. I would submit D vs R is the argument here. It is as old as time. (Or at least since the gold standard was abolished)
I actually think the US holding world reserve currency status is what has caused this. It would take a pot or two of coffee -or a case of beer- to get into this one.