re: “They’re Repulsive” - Tucker’s Rant on How Baby Boomers Betrayed Gen Z.

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no it's just a fact you'll own nothing and like it. you want to know who to blame look in the mirror

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I make great money and have a truly blessed life. I also think of other people than myself who won't have the things that I have to the point of being degrading to society.

Families should be able to have more than 1-2 children (and our society needs it).

Mothers should easily be able to stay at home to raise their children (and our society needs it).

I guess the silver lining is we may have a decade of solvency for Social Security and then the Boomers may finally be cut off from the teeth and can experience some of the pain they've caused.

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When my father retired he immediately got a front license plate, "Spending My Kids' Inheritance" Why should I have taken issue with that? He earned all of that money himself. As a BOOMER, I did have some greedy motive to be offended like your greedy arse does.

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I'm not arguing that he couldn't do that.

I'm certainly not arguing he shouldn't enjoy his retirement.

I'm not even arguing that if you or your children are obnoxious or entitled he shouldn't cut them out if he doesn't think they would value the potential inheritance they would be receiving.

I'm arguing that starting with that mentality that families shouldn't aspire to leaving legacies that will result in sound fiscal foundations whether its through building businesses to pass on like you see in Asian families or at a minimum helping grandkids when possible either to minimize their student loans or help them with a downpayment on a house is a very strange and not very admirable mindset for a parent to have and one that leads to other cultures where that mindset is expected coming to America and outperforming white families financially.

If wealth isn't taught, built and passed on to some degree it almost guarantees poor generational financial outcomes.

And to be clear my parents were never in a position to provide me with money so it has nothing to do with me personally, but the mindset that I've seen many of that age brag about.

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Boomers didn't have that at all most fields were fully employed. How many boomers lost jobs in the 1970s Rust Belt or the 1980's oil price collapse, also with lots of chemical manufacturing closing

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you think they wouldve leaned a lesson instead of voting to ship the jobs in this country overseas

Most blue collar boomers are alright in what they believe. White collar boomers are the worst. It also differs by what part of the country they are from. And if they are urban or rural and what kind of media they have consumed in their life

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I should add that the Boomers aren't the ones who ingrained into Dylan that he was naturally bad just because he was a boy. And that the best way he could go about behaving correctly was if he behaved more like a girl

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Actually that is literally the modern American public education system created by the Boomers. Elementary school is designed to make unruly boys behave like nice polite girls.

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Actually that is literally the modern American public education system created by the Boomers. Elementary school is designed to make unruly boys behave like nice polite girls.

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This is true.

The modern education system from elementary to the university is a byproduct of the 60s/70s boomer philosophers.

The system is an extension of their heavily progressive feminist ideals.

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This is true.

The modern education system from elementary to the university is a byproduct of the 60s/70s boomer philosophers.

The system is an extension of their heavily progressive feminist ideals.

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I think it is more of a social control mechanism, rather than a result of any genuine progressive ideology, but we ultimately reach the same conclusion.

To be clear I don’t think anyone on this board is individually responsible for macro economic trends.

Most boomers on this board are conservative and hard working but there probably isn’t a single one who was in congress to have a vote on any of what’s happened.

But this is the reality of the changes from the 1960s to the present:

Inflation adjusted cost for college education in the US:
1960: $10,600 per year
2020: $40,700 per year (283% increase?

Inflation adjusted median home value: 1960: $230k
2020: $662k (188% increase)

National debt in billions:
1960: $268
2024: $34000 (12487% increase)

Inflation adjusted avg wage:
1967: $20.27
2025: $22.65 (11.74% increase)

So the cost of primary purchases like education and housing are up ~200% adjusted for inflation from when boomers acquired them and wages only went up 11% meaning it takes decades longer to pay for them at the new prices.

At the same time the politicians during that period ran up $30T in debt that now has to be paid off.

No one views any of that as anything but catastrophically bad for future generations, so while the stock market has gone up those new generations don’t care because they can’t afford to invest because they’re paying off student loans and saving for a down payment.

Yeah, when boomers were teaching and in administration, kids were able to be paddled. Now, not so much.

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If boomers, and I don't think it is, it would be a left wing subset of boomers that just happened to have been closeted in that category by when they were born. But, this is a whole different indoctrination of left wing nutjobs that have run our education into the ground to little Johnny won't get left behind the smarter kids. I would say education has changed more in the last 10-15 years by people younger than the boomer ages. But, whatever!

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Boomers took "whole language" reading nationwide. Boomers created Common Core mathematics. Boomers created "social advancement" and No Child Left Behind. Boomers created FASFA and federally subsidized student loans. Boomers run the massive profit-from-your-tax-dollars indoctrination machines that are textbook publishers. Boomers created our current tax policy that underfunds education at all levels.

It's only since Millennials got into teaching and admin that we've gone back to phonics and arithmetic.

Who do you think taught the "left wing nutjob" in their BS.Ed program? A boomer!