In fact, the boomers have been sponging off of the generations to come, for decades. Unrepayable deficits? Mass immigration to keep the house prices going up up up? Nation-bankrupting pensions? All retired boomers owe everything they have to the as-yet unperformed labour of their grandkids. And yet, when one asks them to share the wealth....
That's a brilliant viewpoint. We all rode the merry-go-round, naively thinking it would last forever. I knew 40 years ago that something wasn't right. I swore to myself and others that I wasn't getting on the ride, but I fell for the bait and spent the next 25 years hypnotically participating. I was lucky to have had the opportunity to jump off when the merry-go-round slowed down in 2008 and I have been deprogramming myself ever since.
I have sympathy for anyone that is beginning to see through the veil. I'm starting to see homeless people as the smart ones.
I don’t blame you or any other boomer for doing what they do. I appreciate your self reflection. The problem is that the boomers had as much control over their government as we do ours unfortunately that is none. The United States has always been an oligarchy as far back as 1913? 1872?
Boomers haven't been sponging off the generations to come. Boomers have paid their dues. Many were killed off from the clot shots. Many younger people are on SS and Medicare/Medicaid because they cannot function for any reason. Kick off illegals who get welfare etc. There is plenty of money to take care of Americans.
Boomers lived it up on deficits they expected someone else to pay. Their pensions are bankrupting the nation. Many more retired on the gains their houses made under mass immigration, but the effect of this was future generations have to pay 40x as much for a house when starting out. Every one of boomers’ gains has been at the expense of future generations.
The math shows otherwise- if their pension funds and social security funds had not been plundered, if the petro/fiat dollar hadn't been artificially devalued, they would have plenty of their own money to live off of.
The pensions and social security funds were plundered by boomer retirees expecting to live it up for 20+ years without having to work. The generation that came before never had such a thing, no one did. Living within their means is boomer kryptonite.
The devaluation of the dollar was caused by money printing, which was demanded by boomers and their incessant need to spend more than they have.
Yikes!
The greatest generation who gave boomers life, taught them to worship God, honest work for honest pay, save for a rainy day, reduce, recycle and reuse things, if you can't buy it in cash, you can't buy it and many more gems. My siblings and I are boomers and none have/are mooching off the system. We have worked very hard all our lives, saving until we could afford items, or down payment for items and now is the time to retire. Now people believe they should have everything they want immediately without saving or working for it. Nor, do they even know what a need is vs a want.
Perhaps there are a few boomers that are taking advantage of the system, but I have not come across one yet. There are many people who are not boomers who are on social security and medicare/medicaid who are screwing the system.
Then, throw the illegals into the medicare/medicaid, social security mix.
Rewind, pedes- the government institutions of daycare and indoctrination did their jobs and brainwashed generations of kids successfully to look to the government and big business for all the answers. We're simply in the dying phase of all that. Those families who stuck to God or returned to God have no problem finding motivation to be productive. There are some self-starters who do it on their own as well. But the drive to make a life for oneself starts optimally with the parents. Not too late to find Christ and start taking on missions for the family or church.
In fact, the boomers have been sponging off of the generations to come, for decades. Unrepayable deficits? Mass immigration to keep the house prices going up up up? Nation-bankrupting pensions? All retired boomers owe everything they have to the as-yet unperformed labour of their grandkids. And yet, when one asks them to share the wealth....
That's a brilliant viewpoint. We all rode the merry-go-round, naively thinking it would last forever. I knew 40 years ago that something wasn't right. I swore to myself and others that I wasn't getting on the ride, but I fell for the bait and spent the next 25 years hypnotically participating. I was lucky to have had the opportunity to jump off when the merry-go-round slowed down in 2008 and I have been deprogramming myself ever since.
I have sympathy for anyone that is beginning to see through the veil. I'm starting to see homeless people as the smart ones.
I don’t blame you or any other boomer for doing what they do. I appreciate your self reflection. The problem is that the boomers had as much control over their government as we do ours unfortunately that is none. The United States has always been an oligarchy as far back as 1913? 1872?
Boomers haven't been sponging off the generations to come. Boomers have paid their dues. Many were killed off from the clot shots. Many younger people are on SS and Medicare/Medicaid because they cannot function for any reason. Kick off illegals who get welfare etc. There is plenty of money to take care of Americans.
Boomers lived it up on deficits they expected someone else to pay. Their pensions are bankrupting the nation. Many more retired on the gains their houses made under mass immigration, but the effect of this was future generations have to pay 40x as much for a house when starting out. Every one of boomers’ gains has been at the expense of future generations.
The math shows otherwise- if their pension funds and social security funds had not been plundered, if the petro/fiat dollar hadn't been artificially devalued, they would have plenty of their own money to live off of.
The pensions and social security funds were plundered by boomer retirees expecting to live it up for 20+ years without having to work. The generation that came before never had such a thing, no one did. Living within their means is boomer kryptonite.
The devaluation of the dollar was caused by money printing, which was demanded by boomers and their incessant need to spend more than they have.
By riding the coattails of the greatest generation and screwing all us over?
Yikes! The greatest generation who gave boomers life, taught them to worship God, honest work for honest pay, save for a rainy day, reduce, recycle and reuse things, if you can't buy it in cash, you can't buy it and many more gems. My siblings and I are boomers and none have/are mooching off the system. We have worked very hard all our lives, saving until we could afford items, or down payment for items and now is the time to retire. Now people believe they should have everything they want immediately without saving or working for it. Nor, do they even know what a need is vs a want. Perhaps there are a few boomers that are taking advantage of the system, but I have not come across one yet. There are many people who are not boomers who are on social security and medicare/medicaid who are screwing the system. Then, throw the illegals into the medicare/medicaid, social security mix.
Rewind, pedes- the government institutions of daycare and indoctrination did their jobs and brainwashed generations of kids successfully to look to the government and big business for all the answers. We're simply in the dying phase of all that. Those families who stuck to God or returned to God have no problem finding motivation to be productive. There are some self-starters who do it on their own as well. But the drive to make a life for oneself starts optimally with the parents. Not too late to find Christ and start taking on missions for the family or church.