re: When do Boomers take ANY accountability?

So now you’re shifting to the Covid bubble as an unprecedented buying opportunity. Ok

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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.

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You lazy frick, talk about playing the victum card

I’m a child of Boomers and always thought of them as the first generation to really battle the establishment. The past 5 years have made me wonder if it’s simply too difficult to overcome the establishment.

Does every generation have a common enemy but doesn’t fully realize it? Just another slice of being pitted against each other?

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So now you’re shifting to the Covid bubble as an unprecedented buying opportunity. Ok

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No.

(a) CV19 hit the US in 2020, not 2014-2019.
(b)With CV19, expensive rent in an urban setting suddenly sucked hind tit as socialization dried up. So GenY headed to the more affordable burbs to WFH.
(c) ZIRP rates extended a roughly a decade, making home payments disproportionately affordable compared with preceding decades, perhaps ever.
(d) Observations in the media about GenY ignoring those effects lagged the actual beginnings of a stereotypical home-investment vs cool-experience tradeoff.
(e) My comments referenced (d) ~2014-2019

Even through 2020-21, rates and pricing stayed pat though. The urban exodus didn't begin until 2021. FOMC remained at 0.00% to 0.25% throughout 2021. Prices and rates shot up in 2022 and climbed from there.

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I’m a child of Boomers and always thought of them as the first generation to really battle the establishment.

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When did they battle the establishment? in the 1960s?
Nafta, China - WTO push, Iraq war, Afghanistan and Iraq nation building, the rise of NGOs and the mess that goes along with that , the SS and medicare train thats running off the tracks, Covid mess-

All these issues were accepted and push by a bipartisan consensus of boomers

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(a) CV19 hit the US in 2020, not 2014-2019.
(b)With CV19, expensive rent in an urban setting suddenly sucked hind tit as socialization dried up. So GenY headed to the more affordable burbs to WFH.
(c) ZIRP rates extended a roughly a decade, making home payments disproportionately affordable compared with preceding decades, perhaps ever.
(d) Observations in the media about GenY ignoring those effects lagged the actual beginnings of a stereotypical home-investment vs cool-experience tradeoff.
(e) My comments referenced (d) ~2014-2019

Even through 2020-21, rates and pricing stayed pat though. The urban exodus didn't begin until 2021. FOMC remained at 0.00% to 0.25% throughout 2021. Prices and rates shot up in 2022 and climbed from there.

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I know barely any millenials that don't own a home, and most have bought and sold and bought another at least once - probably because most of the ones I know live in the South or midwest

Home buying complaints are mostly a gen z thing

Millennial complaints are the stupid cost of living expenses that have happened in the last 6 years and the Covid response effect on their kids

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All these issues were accepted and push by a bipartisan consensus of boomers

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Let's look at the votes.

1980 (Reagan vs. Carter): A bad economy drove younger Boomers to break for Ronald Reagan, though by narrower margins than older generations.

1984 (Reagan vs. Mondale): Strongly Republican. In the first election where the entire Boomer generation was old enough to vote, they overwhelmingly voted for Reagan (roughly 58%).

1988 (G.H.W. Bush vs. Dukakis): Moderately Republican. (54–57% depending on the age bracket).

1992 (Clinton vs. G.H.W. Bush vs. Perot): Moderately Democratic. Bill Clinton—the first actual Baby Boomer president—successfully captured his own generation. Boomers broke for Clinton, heavily favoring his centrist "New Democrat" platform. Third-party candidate Ross Perot pulled heavily from younger Boomers.

1996 (Clinton vs. Dole): Democratic. Boomers comfortably re-elected Clinton over Bob Dole, favoring the robust 1990s economy.

2000 (G.W. Bush vs. Gore): Dead Heat. The Boomer vote mirrored the razor-thin national outcome. Older Boomers leaned slightly toward Al Gore, while younger Boomers leaned slightly toward George W. Bush.

2004 (G.W. Bush vs. Kerry): Leaned Republican. Amid post-9/11 national security anxieties, Boomers favored George W. Bush over John Kerry by a few percentage points.

2008 (Obama vs. McCain): Dead Heat. Barack Obama’s historic wave swept the electorate, but boomers were the closest of all generations to a 50/50 split, voting significantly more conservative than the emerging Millennial generation.

2012 (Obama vs. Romney): Leaned Republican. As the oldest Boomers began qualifying for retirement and Medicare, they drifted further right. They favored Mitt Romney over Obama by about 52% to 47%.

2016 (Trump vs. Clinton): Solidly Republican. Boomers favored Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by roughly 51% to 45%. Their high voter turnout in Rust Belt states was a critical factor in Trump's victory.

2020 (Trump vs. Biden): Solidly Republican. While Joe Biden made slight inroads with older voters compared to Clinton, Boomers as a whole still broke for Donald Trump by roughly 3 to 5 percentage points.

2024 (Trump vs. Harris): Solidly Republican. Boomers maintained their role as a pillar for the GOP. While younger generations skewed heavily Democratic, voters aged 60–65+ consistently favored the Republican ticket by mid-single-digit margins.

You should educate yourself on inflation.

I'm Gen X and we were the first one's to call out the Boomers. They were our parents and it was obvious they were making the world a shittier place in every way possible. All with the best of intentions of course. And a greed that surpassed any concerns for their progeny's welfare in the future. It was free love and hippies and commie bullshite for the last sixty years from these people and that resulted in the bullshite we are in today. But they primarily covered it all with inflation. That's how they paid themselves with stuff and gave you the bill for it.

It's time for a reformation. Any more commie shite needs to be hung from a tree and mocked.

Blame Obama and Biden - seriously

Obama created ObamaCare.

- Orchestrated the largest wealth transfer from the working and middle class to private corporations.

-Made the largest family expense health care instead of their home mortgage.
Home ownership is the biggest driver of upward mobility for the middle and working class. So now instead of building equity for themselves or their children, that money goes to the wealthiest global corporations in history. The health care industrial complex, which has seen record profits and record price increases annually.

-Biden brought us Bidenflation, the worst inflation since Carter, with a 4 year average of 5% and a peak of 9% month over month.

This happened in 4 years instead of 12 years, and there is no way for the economy to change in this truncated timeline. It will take a decade to catch up and break even for the middle and working class.

Inflation is a direct tax on the poor.

Biden permanently lowered the standard of living for 80% of the American population

Then Biden added the entire population of Florida's worth of illegal aliens in less than 4 years.
This also fueled Bidenflation, causing rents and home prices to rise 30%, causing city budget deficits etc., causing a 50-100% increase in the cost of groceries.

The Cloward-Piven strategy

Your adolescent anger is simply weaponized stupidity and directed incorrectly.