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re: When do Boomers take ANY accountability?
Posted on 7/25/26 at 12:46 am to Y.A. Tittle
Posted on 7/25/26 at 12:46 am to Y.A. Tittle
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The idea that any one "generation" has a majority lock on terrible politicians, or policies they might implement, is one of the most absurd constructs I can possibly imagine.
Look at the average age of politicians. They skew heavily towards the "boomers". You have to be ignorant to believe that America is represented by anyone but them. They have the trait of every boomer. They refuse to step aside and let the younger generations have any impact on important decisions. Not only that, they refuse to help the previous generation come into any power with their assistance. Their mantra is " I did it on my own, so can you". They refuse to accept their responsibility as teachers and guiders of the younger generations because they feel, inaccurately that they did it all on their own. They didn't. They benefitted from the previous generation and woefully failed to recognize that.
Posted on 7/25/26 at 1:38 am to Swamp Angel
My dad was the first high school graduate in his family. His mom didn’t speak English. He joined the national guard to avoid being sent to Vietnam. He was smarter than I could have ever imagined. I wanted to join after 9/11 and he talked me out of it. It’s all been a waste of life. Sadly the America I luckily grew up in is a distant memory.
Posted on 7/25/26 at 1:42 am to Azkiger
So southern state honkies?l
This post was edited on 7/25/26 at 1:45 am
Posted on 7/25/26 at 4:31 am to 10thyrsr
quote:That is not the way it works. Power is not gifted. It is wrested. One who needs to be gifted power, is one who is unlikely to hold it.
They refuse to step aside and let the younger generations have any impact on important decisions
quote:Indeed, the mantra is, "I did it on my own, so can you."
Their mantra is "I did it on my own, so can you".
..... To which the response is what? .... "No, I can't. It's just too hard"?
..... As opposed to, "OK Boomer, CSB. Now hurry up and step aside, and give me all your stuff"?
It's mind boggling.
In your fairytale, Octavian would have incessantly whined about Marc Antony not giving up power, instead of seizing it at Actium and Alexandria.
In your make-believe world, Bill Clinton ascended to the Presidency because G H W Bush voluntarily gifted it to him, and JFK ascended because LBJ gracefully stepped aside.
The stark truth is, in the real world trophies are earned, not gifted. In the real world, everyone does not get a trophy.
Unfortunately, someone with your attitude is likely to learn that lesson the hard way. A younger aggressive person will muscle in on a position you assumed would be given to you when the selfish greedy old Boomer finally stepped down. Then you'll have a different generation to pine about.
Posted on 7/25/26 at 4:39 am to 10thyrsr
I am not responsible for what any politician does. This broad brush painting does nothing but divide.
Posted on 7/25/26 at 5:07 am to Rip Torner
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You left out Abortion rights, Vietnam War, massive debt, War in Iraq, Jimmy Carter, Watergate, AIDS epidemic, crack epidemic, Disco music, and worst of all Nancy Pelosi
Watergate, Jimmy Carter, Pelosi ... seriously dude?
Why not throw FDR, Truman and LBJ into that mix ... Hell, throw Herbert Hoover in there too ... maybe slavery and slaveownership as well? If you're going to employ Hannah-Jones style re-creation, go BIG!
Posted on 7/25/26 at 6:24 am to 10thyrsr
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Look at the average age of politicians. They skew heavily towards the "boomers". You have to be ignorant to believe that America is represented by anyone but them. They have the trait of every boomer. They refuse to step aside and let the younger generations have any impact on important decisions. Not only that, they refuse to help the previous generation come into any power with their assistance.
You young ones should build a political constituency and run. Just like the DSA. Get elected. There is no magic formula. Just get more votes. Nowadays, you don't even have to be distinguished in anything except social media.
Posted on 7/25/26 at 7:15 am to Azkiger
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Funding the same policies young adults (high progressive percent) back, freebies for the gimmedats so they can eat like shite, get diabetes, and produce 2-3x more per capita children than working families.
A literal drop in the bucket compared to ss and medicare as far a national spending
Posted on 7/25/26 at 8:12 am to Midtiger farm
quote:You do understand SS remains in surplus to this day, right?
A literal drop in the bucket compared to ss
While the rest of the budget is running at a 34% deficit, SS will run off its own recipient funded SSTF until 2034. After that, it would run at a ~20% deficit if changes were not made.
SS is a massive ripoff. It serves one beneficiary -- Uncle Sam. Medicare is horribly run, corrupt, and damaging to medical competition. But, your disproportionate obsession with SS as some supposed current harm imposed by old people is misplaced.
Posted on 7/25/26 at 8:22 am to boogiewoogie1978
Retirement age has increased since we were born. We are paying much more into Medicare than ever before. We are paying our share pals
Posted on 7/25/26 at 9:25 am to entmd2002
quote:Unfortunately, no one seems to recognize the real enemy here.
We are paying our share pals
Posted on 7/25/26 at 9:43 am to Night Vision
Posted on 7/25/26 at 9:49 am to 10thyrsr
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They refuse to step aside and let the younger generations have any impact on important decisions.
Holy shite at this thread. First the victimhood and now the entitlement. I’m not a boomer, but this country is screwed if this is any indication of how the majority think. “It’s someone else’s fault and give me shite instead of earning it through hard work/promotions/winning elections etc.”
This post was edited on 7/25/26 at 9:53 am
Posted on 7/25/26 at 10:14 am to NC_Tigah
Well put, NC_Tiger. It won't register with the entitled but I certainly agree with it.
Posted on 7/25/26 at 10:17 am to 10thyrsr
quote:
Look at the average age of politicians. They skew heavily towards the "boomers".
Look at the average age of politicians in the year 1926. Same age demograpics as now. Were the boomers in charge 100 years ago?
Posted on 7/25/26 at 10:30 am to NC_Tigah
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You do understand SS remains in surplus to this day, right?
While the rest of the budget is running at a 34% deficit, SS will run off its own recipient funded SSTF until 2034
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"Myth #6: Social Security cannot run a deficit.
Fact: Social Security is running a cash deficit today, and it will keep running deficits until its trust funds run out.
Social Security is legally barred from going into debt; in other words, it cannot spend more than it takes in (or has transferred in) over the life of the program. However, the program can (and does) run annual deficits. In 2016, for example, Social Security will run a cash-flow deficit of about $70 billion. Over the next decade, the Trustees project cash-flow deficits of $1.5 trillion, and CBO projects deficits of $2.2 trillion. Even including interest income, the program is projected to begin running deficits by 2018 or 2020."
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"Baby boomers exacerbated the problem by granting themselves sufficiently generous benefits that the cumulated tax payments of the surplus years will run out before the boomers do".
"The Treasury already has been funding a portion of Social Security benefits since 2010, the year in which benefit payouts exceeded payroll-tax collections for the first time"
Posted on 7/25/26 at 10:47 am to boogiewoogie1978
You sniveling little arse hat. I had to borrow money to buy peanut butter when I moved away from home to hold me over to my first pay check. I had to deal with the same shite as people are dealing with now - corrupt government and gaslighting, but without the benefit of knowing it that you have. I had the increase of the first 27 years of my career stolen by a narcissistic ex-wife. You can shove any fricking "thoughts" that you seem to think you have, straight up your arse. Get off your fricking arse and work and make your life better, rather than blame your lack of success on others.
Posted on 7/25/26 at 10:50 am to boogiewoogie1978
Please carve out Generation Jones when referencing Boomers ---- we are indeed different than our contemporaries
Posted on 7/25/26 at 10:56 am to Midtiger farm
quote:Do you know what that means?
Social Security is running a cash deficit today, and it will keep running deficits until its trust funds run out.
As it is EXACTLY what I told you, it would appear you don't understand the content of your uploads.
quote:Do you understand what "it would run at a ~20% deficit if changes were not made" means?
SS will run off its own recipient funded SSTF until 2034. After that, it would run at a ~20% deficit if changes were not made.
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Myth #6: Social Security cannot run a deficit.
quote:100% FALSE!
The Treasury already has been funding a portion of Social Security benefits since 2010
Unless, of course, one also mislabels Treasury payments to holders of T-Bonds/T-Bills as "funding," instead of a repayment of US debt with interest.
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