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When do Boomers take ANY accountability?
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:22 am
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:22 am
Younger people are increasingly asking when baby boomers will take responsibility for the mess they left behind.
For over 40 years, the U.S. stacked up tens of trillions in debt while taxes were cut and benefits expanded, especially for older, politically powerful voters, most of them boomers. Younger generations are now told to “tighten their belts” as interest on that debt becomes one of the largest line items in the budget.
Boomers enjoyed the upside: cheap college, affordable housing, expanding Social Security and Medicare, and decades of rising asset prices. Younger people inherit the downside: a massive national debt, strained public services, and warnings that programs will have to be cut just as they come of age.
When younger people point this out, they often get scolded about “lattes and iPhones,” as if individual consumption choices are what created a multi-trillion-dollar federal liability.
For over 40 years, the U.S. stacked up tens of trillions in debt while taxes were cut and benefits expanded, especially for older, politically powerful voters, most of them boomers. Younger generations are now told to “tighten their belts” as interest on that debt becomes one of the largest line items in the budget.
Boomers enjoyed the upside: cheap college, affordable housing, expanding Social Security and Medicare, and decades of rising asset prices. Younger people inherit the downside: a massive national debt, strained public services, and warnings that programs will have to be cut just as they come of age.
When younger people point this out, they often get scolded about “lattes and iPhones,” as if individual consumption choices are what created a multi-trillion-dollar federal liability.
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Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:25 am to boogiewoogie1978
You have a very valid point here. And fair to boot.
Even in the other thread - the most fiscally “responsible” conservatives want budget cuts before they agree to the farm bill. Have cuts been made?
Heck no. We just dig ourselves a deeper hole. We hand our money to govt officials who couldn’t even run a lemonade stand properly.
Even in the other thread - the most fiscally “responsible” conservatives want budget cuts before they agree to the farm bill. Have cuts been made?
Heck no. We just dig ourselves a deeper hole. We hand our money to govt officials who couldn’t even run a lemonade stand properly.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:25 am to boogiewoogie1978
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Younger people are increasingly asking when baby boomers will take responsibility for the mess they left behind.
What do you want them to do exactly?
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:25 am to boogiewoogie1978
Younger people buy $300,000 homes as starter homes and their first car is a BMW instead of the pos that boomers drove. It's a weird shift
This post was edited on 7/16/26 at 8:27 am
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:26 am to boogiewoogie1978
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Younger people are increasingly asking when baby boomers will take responsibility for the mess they left behind.
lol
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:27 am to boogiewoogie1978
Oh look. More class warfare.
Would you like reparations?
Would you like reparations?
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:27 am to boogiewoogie1978
Just keep in mind that the Boomers were the drug-addled hippies of the 1960s and 70s. Show some appreciation for the excellent music they provided but don't go off following any of the political beliefs they espouse as a whole.
A lot of their mindset comes from being coddled by parents who had seen the horrors of war on a world-wide scale and wanted to give their children everything they could in an effort to bury the atrocities they had seen. It obviously had unintended consequences for many of the Boomer generation.
A lot of their mindset comes from being coddled by parents who had seen the horrors of war on a world-wide scale and wanted to give their children everything they could in an effort to bury the atrocities they had seen. It obviously had unintended consequences for many of the Boomer generation.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:27 am to boogiewoogie1978
Younger generations whining about boomers is just as cringe as boomer whining about younger generations.
Get the frick over it already. What kind of accountability do you want them to take? What would make you happy?
You people act like all boomers are wealthy with massive portfolios when the fact is that just as many of them, probably a majority of them, are poor and living on a fixed income.
And older generations need to stop whining about the younger generations. Every generation is history has whined about the newer generation calling them soft. Grow up and take of your own shite instead of complaining about other people having more than you.
Get the frick over it already. What kind of accountability do you want them to take? What would make you happy?
You people act like all boomers are wealthy with massive portfolios when the fact is that just as many of them, probably a majority of them, are poor and living on a fixed income.
And older generations need to stop whining about the younger generations. Every generation is history has whined about the newer generation calling them soft. Grow up and take of your own shite instead of complaining about other people having more than you.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:28 am to boogiewoogie1978
At the Pearly Gates
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:28 am to boogiewoogie1978
The biweekly boomer slam. Why do you guys think it's fun to attack geriatrics that have reduced capacity. Like stepping on kittens is what you promote.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:28 am to boogiewoogie1978
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Younger people are increasingly asking when baby boomers will take responsibility
And you wonder why older generations look at you dumb assholes with disdain as they call you lazy and spoiled...
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:28 am to boogiewoogie1978
Gen X here, but all you do is whine and complain.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:28 am to boogiewoogie1978
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For over 40 years, the U.S. stacked up tens of trillions in debt while taxes were cut
Are the tax cuts in the room with us right now?
Cmon man I like to make fun of the boomers because they get so mad on here but don’t tell me there were tax cuts when I pick taxes from January to October for Israel and food stamps and the interest on the debt and only get to keep the last couple months of income
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:29 am to boogiewoogie1978
To be fair, boomers built the strongest economy in the world by far,
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:29 am to boogiewoogie1978
Oh good, another generational warfare thread.
The “let’s pit groups against one another and stir resentments” enthusiasts on the Left will approve.
The “let’s pit groups against one another and stir resentments” enthusiasts on the Left will approve.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:30 am to boogiewoogie1978
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Younger people are increasingly asking when baby boomers will take responsibility for the mess they left behind.
The answer for the portion of boomers you reference (because not all of them are) is never.
They lived like narcissists and will die like narcissists.
Gen A will likely become socialists because of their actions and they dont care at all because they will be dead.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:30 am to boogiewoogie1978
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cheap college, affordable housing
....and then came along Barack the magic negro
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:30 am to boogiewoogie1978
It's not about age, it's about ideology.
Ideology (Liberal vs. Conservative Self-Identification)Self-described ideology reinforces the voting pattern:Younger adults (18-29/30-49): More likely to identify as liberal (~29-33%) and less as conservative (~25-30%). Young women especially liberal.
prri.org
Older adults (50+): More likely to identify as conservative (~35-42%) and less liberal (~22-26%).
prri.org
Younger people are also more Democratic-leaning in partisanship (e.g., under 30 often 60%+ Dem/lean Dem), while those 60+ tilt Republican.
pewresearch.org
Ideology (Liberal vs. Conservative Self-Identification)Self-described ideology reinforces the voting pattern:Younger adults (18-29/30-49): More likely to identify as liberal (~29-33%) and less as conservative (~25-30%). Young women especially liberal.
prri.org
Older adults (50+): More likely to identify as conservative (~35-42%) and less liberal (~22-26%).
prri.org
Younger people are also more Democratic-leaning in partisanship (e.g., under 30 often 60%+ Dem/lean Dem), while those 60+ tilt Republican.
pewresearch.org
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:31 am to boogiewoogie1978
Can you stop goverment from spending?
I cant. Even though I vote for people who swear they arent going to fradulently spend.
Even Trump himself with his task team couldnt stop goverment spending.
I cant. Even though I vote for people who swear they arent going to fradulently spend.
Even Trump himself with his task team couldnt stop goverment spending.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 8:31 am to Broke
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Younger people buy $300,000 homes as starter homes and their first car is a BMW instead of the pos that boomers drove.
300k is the minimum you have to pay to not get shot in cheap cities like Baton Rouge
The boomers let Mexicans come across the border and buy up all the cheap cars and bring them back to Mexico so there are no beaters anymore
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