re: Boomers and long-term impact on younger generations

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Classic I can’t defend my position statement. Dismissing something so widely studied and known such as rate of cognitive decline is what’s silly.

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Classic argument ad hominem on your part, in addition to dismissing something so widely studied and known as prioritizing personal gain over that of the group.

(Here’s the statement that I didn’t respond to):

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If you work in a role past 65, you are doing damage to the company and the younger more versatile talent

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Generalizations like “All Boomers should retire before or on their 65th birthdays” are indefensible amongst rational adults.

But here we are.

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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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Because they know what's going to happen to them when they let go.

We have $39 trillion of debt that they are responsible for and they will be dead weight.

They know that they're horses we can turn into glue if we choose.

I was agreeing with you, friend. I also agree with your comments about management, but if you think about who management is then you might come up with some theories as to why they ignore it until they're forced to deal with it. I'm not sure what side you're on versus me, but that's fine too.

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Always someone else’s fault?

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It always is in these threads.

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Sounds like you got your shite together and rocked it. The "worked our arse off to get there" is what resonates. It doesn't matter where you are on the totem pole or what gifts you were given, this is required for success.

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Very similar story to you with dad being laid off in the oilfield and looking for work. He ended up having to drive to Houston for work at the plants for a few years.

We didn’t go hungry but I remember him buying a car for $100 that you had to keep your feet on the side of the floor boards because you could see the road underneath you

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Not sure if it’s because of social media and more places for them to bitch, or if it’s more that victimization has become in vogue.

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I’m pretty sure social media is to blame.

Young people that immerse themselves in social media live with the belief that, “I have a voice and I need to make sure everyone hears my opinion.”

It’s laughable.

Picture yourself at a packed movie theater. Not a seat available. Maybe 300-400 watching the movie. At some point 10-20 of the usual suspects start talking loud and being disruptive. This is the equivalent of the social media mindset. Loud and they need to make sure as many people as possible hear them. Imagine if all 300-400 people took the same approach. The volume and chaos would be crazy.

There’s something broken in young people today

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Tell us your thoughts on social security

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My thoughts are, I will get back a small percentage to what I’ve paid in if you factored in just modest market gains. Instead, take a look at what that pool is being used for. Yes the population is aging, yes, it’s going to come to a head. The younger generations think that they are the only ones that inherited generational problems. These types of arguments don’t trigger me, I just chuckle as I watch those who get it lap those that incessantly complain.

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This isn’t just about 2008, but that’s where a lot of the ripple effects really took off. The financial crisis did major damage, and much of the leadership at the time was from that generation.

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The wheels that caused the 2008 crisis were set in motion 31 years earlier under Jimmy Carter (1924-2024) when the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act was passed. At that time, the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs was chaired by Henry Reuss D-WI (1912-2002). The Senate Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs was chaired by William Proxmire D-WI (1915-2005).The CRA was enacted to pressure banks to lend money to lower income and moderate income borrowers.

In 1999, Bill Clinton signed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act allowing commercial and investment banks to merge, creating massive financial conglomerates that took on riskier investments using consumer deposits. The bill was authored by Sen. Phil Gramm R-TX (b. 1942), Rep. Jim Leach R-IA (1942-2024) and Rep. Tom Bliley R-VA (1932-2023). Clinton also signed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000. This bill was introduced by Rep.Tom Ewing R-IL (b. 1935) and it specifically exempted credit-default swaps (the complex derivatives that ultimately amplified and spread the subprime mortgage crisis) from federal oversight and regulation. These deregulatory acts took effect in July 2001.

The Bush administration made repeated efforts for more oversight over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The 2 biggest obstacles to accomplishing that - Rep. Barney Frank D-MA (1940-2026) and Rep. Maxine Waters D-CA (b. 1938) who were both prominent members of the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.

Feel free to blame 2 presidents that were born in 1946 but the “leadership” that crafted, lobbied for and passed this defective legislation along with the idiots that then fought to protect it were NOT baby boomers.

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I do blame boomers for the widespread proliferation of hippe feminist commie nonsense. It absolutely got out of control with their generation.

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And you’re right to do so.

I’m 73 now. Sort of Boomer OG.

In college I had a vendor print a run of T-Shirts for me and my friends to wear around campus occasionally to frustrate and befuddle the libprog faculty and students.

EARTH FIRST!
We’ll log the other planets later.

They were foolish, misinformed, and mostly coffee house revolutionaries-we thought…

They turned out to be pests and locusts of the first order and are now being left in the dust by AOC and her coven of Stalinists.

That’s our big sin-misunderstanding the persistence, duplicity, and evil of our internal enemies. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

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The younger generation doesn’t want to work. Plain and simple. 

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I dont see this regularly.
Sure, there are lazy people, but thats across the board..



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And people that blame boomers for all the economic ills of the country are weak and soft and can't read a history book.

They are almost always Democrats, but lack the courage to own it.

Democratic policies created the mess we are in, and current Democrats will perpetuate it.
That is just straight logic, and for anyone with common sense, it is isn't even debatable.