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re: When do Boomers take ANY accountability?
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:13 am to Night Vision
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:13 am to Night Vision
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Gen X here, but all you do is whine and complain.
They can't blame us for shite because we never had any voting power due to falling in between the 2 goliath generations.
You can bet we'll be the ones who get screwed. We worked our asses off to support the huge generation above us because there is no way we could have voted in SS and Medicare reform when we were younger. Now the huge generation below us will say "frick it" and just let our benefits die out.
Hope you have amassed some personal assets for retirement.
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Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:13 am to boogiewoogie1978
I take responsibility for working 12-hour shifts for 46 years, including 33 of them outside. I'm living on a fixed income and have to pay taxes on the Social Security I get, still pay property taxes, all the insurances, and all the other monthly bills working people have to pay. I'll die within 15 years.
You don't like your position in life? Get the skills to earn more, EVEN IF IT MEANS DOING A JOB YOU HATE.
Don't blame me, and kindly get the f*ck off my lawn.
You don't like your position in life? Get the skills to earn more, EVEN IF IT MEANS DOING A JOB YOU HATE.
Don't blame me, and kindly get the f*ck off my lawn.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:13 am to boogiewoogie1978
This just in: Life’s not fair.
News at 11.
News at 11.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:14 am to Woolfpack
coddled poosies whining on their personal computers or cellular phones sitting in the AC of Starbucks drinking their iced lattes. afterwards they go home and play x-box on their large screen TVs while drinking energy drinks before nap time.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:15 am to boogiewoogie1978
Gen X here to say that my alliegiance is with the Boomers. Fcuk yooouuu
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:16 am to theballguy
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What do you want them to do exactly?
Pay off their student loans?
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:16 am to boogiewoogie1978
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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
1876 - 2010: 10.7T debt
2010 - 2026: additional 30T debt
Math. It's what's for dinner.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:23 am to HubbaBubba
Why the hate for GenX? I don't hate Boomers myself.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:28 am to theballguy
quote:Most bitching and complaining about boomers cone from Millennials and to a lesser extent Gen Xers. Much less so Gen Z, which seems to be doing pretty well, all things considered. They don't seem to want to be spoon fed by mommy and daddy like the the other two.
Why the hate for GenX? I don't hate Boomers myself.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:29 am to HubbaBubba
quote:one of the most delusional things I’ve read on here
Much less so Gen Z, which seems to be doing pretty well, all things considered. They don't seem to want to be spoon fed by mommy and daddy like the the other two.
Gen Z is not doing well whatsoever
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:30 am to boogiewoogie1978
Boomer Derangement Syndrome?
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:30 am to Swamp Angel
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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.
I don't think coddling is the right word, at least not in the sense that we think of it today.
If you want to compare the 50s to the 30s then yes, they were coddled. Economic and technological booms will do that.
A lot of the vets that came home ended up alcoholics and were not super involved with the kids except to beat them when disobedient. What you are calling coddling would get cps called for neglect/abuse today.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:31 am to boogiewoogie1978
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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.
I don't remember my dad, a boomer, passing any of those govt policies pertaining to any of that...
Heck, my dad was a welder at Georgia Pacific. He wasn't even in govt.
Why you trying to blame him for anything?
My first car was a $600 1982 Ford Escort 4 door, and I drove it for 3 years. Kids these days are driving brand new Rav 4s and pickups. And I was cutting grass during the summer and started working as a stock boy at Bill's Dollar Store when I was 15. Have had a job ever since then.
Give me a break with all the whiny crap.. That's one thing this younger generation is good at... whining and complaining into their $1200 Iphones for tictok in their designer clothes and nice cars... Oh which they make money doing...
Isn't that funny??? The debt was "crippling" when I was a teenager. Nothing has changed.
This post was edited on 7/16/26 at 1:27 pm
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:32 am to HubbaBubba
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They don't seem to want to be spoon fed by mommy and daddy like the the other two.
The nickname "feral generation" wasn't given to us because we were "spoon fed".
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:36 am to boogiewoogie1978
What do you suppose they do..? Politicians did this...not individual citizens.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:39 am to Broke
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Younger people buy $300,000 homes as starter homes
Yeah gramps. Starter homes were $30k when boomers were buying homes.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:39 am to boogiewoogie1978
I'm 62 and am accountable for every fricking thing I've done in my life.
GOOD and bad.
If you make 50$ an hour, live like you make 25.
No one gets ahead spending everything you make.
GOOD and bad.
If you make 50$ an hour, live like you make 25.
No one gets ahead spending everything you make.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:42 am to boogiewoogie1978
Boomers paid and are paying far more in taxes than Gen Z or the Millennials. The playing field for success hasn't changed in 60 years.
They are just a bunch of spoiled crybabies. They are paying tax effective rates in the single digits and are complaining about Boomerz getting a tax break from 27% to 23%.
These people, we all made them, are not winners as a whole.
They are just a bunch of spoiled crybabies. They are paying tax effective rates in the single digits and are complaining about Boomerz getting a tax break from 27% to 23%.
These people, we all made them, are not winners as a whole.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:43 am to ManBearSharkReb
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Yeah gramps. Starter homes were $30k when boomers were buying homes.
Homes weren't 4000 sqft back then.
Average home size in 1970 was 1500 sqft.
May want to factor that in.... people talk so much without factoring in the many other things. I call that "simple thinking".
But yeah, inflation is bad all around. Didn't we just have a good inflation report in the last couple of months?
This post was edited on 7/16/26 at 10:47 am
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:45 am to boogiewoogie1978
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Younger people are increasingly asking when baby boomers will take responsibility for the mess they left behind.
I know a lot of Boomers who are asking the same question.
I guess the question is how can Boomers help their entitled children to develop a sense of responsibility, accountability and mental toughness? It's an open question and time is definitely running out.
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