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re: My theory on why baby boomers are criticized
Posted on 5/27/26 at 9:27 am to Baers Foot
Posted on 5/27/26 at 9:27 am to Baers Foot
Term limits should be a thing. Two for senators, 4 for representatives
This post was edited on 5/27/26 at 9:28 am
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Posted on 5/27/26 at 9:39 am to Scruffy
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The boomers definitely championed outsourcing.
They are definitely to blame for that.
This so completely ignorant, I had to comment.
You can blame capitalism for outsourcing, and you would be correct. But to assume a geenratoon of people "championed " outsourcing and sending jobs offshore, when the complete positive is true, is ridiculous.
I'm in IT and I've yet to meet anyone who likes it, except the customers signig the checks
Posted on 5/27/26 at 9:51 am to N2cars
quote:The 80s and more so the 90s were the peak political push for outsourcing.
You can blame capitalism for outsourcing, and you would be correct. But to assume a geenratoon of people "championed " outsourcing and sending jobs offshore, when the complete positive is true, is ridiculous.
All the major elected officials during that time pushed for it (Clinton, Gore, Newt, Bush).
Boomers were by far the largest voting block in support of those politicians.
Boomers should have voted for Perot.
This post was edited on 5/27/26 at 9:54 am
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:01 am to soccerfüt
quote:"Conceptually" is a bit of a floating signifier. Neither SS or Medicare are paygo programs, despite misunderstandings to the contrary, nor is SS remotely a "benefit" for retirees.
With Medicare & Social Security retirement benefits being conceptually “paid for” by current wage earners, younger generations today feel like they’re still supporting older generations.
Regarding Social Security, SS is as big a ripoff racket as the government has ever pulled off.
It is a Federal Government borrowing instrument. The US workforce is the lender. Terms of the loan are terrible, and are set entirely by the borrower ... Uncle Sam. There is but one beneficiary for SS, that beneficiary is Uncle Sam.
We can detail that if you'd like, but SS was never and still is not set up with current workers paying the way of current retirees.
SS sucks, six ways to Sunday.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:08 am to Scruffy
Scruffy are you for complete student debt relief?
N2cars assumed you were
N2cars assumed you were
This post was edited on 5/27/26 at 10:08 am
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:09 am to Scruffy
You must meet different boomers than me.
I've yet to meet a single one that is pro-outsourcing, or lax immigration. And, except for offshoring, you can't have one without the other.
Perot was brilliant, and he got a Democrat elected.
I've yet to meet a single one that is pro-outsourcing, or lax immigration. And, except for offshoring, you can't have one without the other.
Perot was brilliant, and he got a Democrat elected.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:09 am to N2cars
quote:
I'm in IT
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:11 am to Sun God
quote:Why would I be for that?
Scruffy are you for complete student debt relief?
No.
The system needs to be completely overhauled, but people still agreed to it.
They should be allowed to discharge it in bankruptcy though.
This post was edited on 5/27/26 at 10:12 am
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:11 am to N2cars
quote:HW Bush was pro-outsourcing as well.
Perot was brilliant, and he got a Democrat elected.
Perot opposed it.
This post was edited on 5/27/26 at 10:15 am
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:13 am to Scruffy
Because you’re a millennial and a doctor of course
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:14 am to Sun God
quote:Would be a horrible idea.
Because you’re a millennial and a doctor of course
I make my payments.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:16 am to Midtiger farm
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Who did then?
So the elderly man/woman working at walmart with white hair, Is this the people we should be held accountable for those policies?
Or was it a political think tank, with a pathetic attempt to spearhead us into the future and boost the stagnetic auto industry and that set the precident for record high Vehicle prices to come?
This post was edited on 5/27/26 at 10:17 am
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:18 am to Scruffy
quote:
Clinton, Gore, Newt, Bush
Newt and Bush assuming you mean senior aren’t boomers Clinton and Gore are both 1-2 years away from not being boomers. In the 80s and most of the 90s, boomers didn’t have control of much of anything yet. Most were in their 40s well into the 90s with many still in their 30s. Your average boomer was early to mid 40s in 1999.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:19 am to N2cars
quote:
You must meet different boomers than me.
I've yet to meet a single one that is pro-outsourcing, or lax immigration. And, except for offshoring, you can't have one without the other.
I said that earlier. A broad brush is a thing for paint.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:24 am to Scruffy
quote:100%!
They should be allowed to discharge it in bankruptcy though.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:29 am to Scruffy
And honestly, I bitch about Democrats b/c they started all this social engineering, and have perpetrated it, but now Republicans are just as bad.
Errybody votes errybody da money.
All least Trump tried to make a dent w/ DOGE, but they all spend like drunken sailors.
Errybody votes errybody da money.
All least Trump tried to make a dent w/ DOGE, but they all spend like drunken sailors.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:29 am to Mushroom1968
quote:Both of the Bushs were for out-sourcing.
Newt and Bush assuming you mean senior aren’t boomers Clinton and Gore are both 1-2 years away from not being boomers.
quote:Unless the data I looked at was wrong, Boomers were the largest voting block in the 90s, bar none.
In the 80s and most of the 90s, boomers didn’t have control of much of anything yet. Most were in their 40s well into the 90s with many still in their 30s. Your average boomer was early to mid 40s in 1999.
The 80s they weren’t.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:32 am to Scruffy
Student loans wouldn't exist with their current interest rate structure (below market) unless they were underwritten and guaranteed by the federal government.
But that's all good, right?
But that's all good, right?
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:34 am to Scruffy
quote:
Boomers were the largest voting block in the 90s, bar none.
Well sure but they mostly weren’t voting for boomers, they were voting in silent generation. Just like today we are voting in the boomers. I’m Gen X but boomers had the same frustration with their options we have now. We haven’t done much better to change anything, neither have millennials, neither will Gen Z.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 10:35 am to Midtiger farm
This is true. But I would say Gen X has as much power as boomers nowadays.
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