Here’s what billions to Ukraine should be used for.
(finance.yahoo.com)
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bUT bOOmeRs HAD tHe bESt lIFe EVer? 🤪
They objectively did though, the ones not drafted for Vietnam which is the majority.
Here comes the boomer haters 😭
My mother is a boomer
As a child, she lived in a house that didn’t have a toilet or a shower indoors. They literally had to go outside to pee, poop, and to take showers. This was in Michigan, so even in the winter, that’s what they had to do. Today it’s 13°F in Michigan. But yeah… I’m sure it was fantastic taking showers outside in 13° weather.
This was a house that they rented. Eventually, it was condemned. That’s why they had to move. When they moved into the new place, my mom literally had to sleep out in Arizona room type place. Because her two brothers were smaller and they couldn’t be put out like that. At least they were living somewhere in California at the time so it wasn’t 13° for her to sleep in every night.
So, the next time you want to put your child or family member out on the patio to sleep, you tell me what a great life that is for them.
But you keep telling me how great boomers had it. 🤦♀️
Yeah, I was poor as dirt growing g up my parents were depression babies and my dad left school at 12 to work got polio at 19 in Korea. I was born 1962. Best economic years I was poor kid crabbing, delivering newspapers, shoveling snow. What is this boomer edge you speak of. Ever heard of Jimmy Carter and 29% house loans? I lived through going off the gold standard, we felt it. When Reagan came it all turned around for a bit while they greases the military industrial complex under the faux cold war bullshit so some people made money. I earned all my biggest money while trump was in office. I saw the opportunity he was making and jumped on board. I'm not wealthy but I have enough to live. Took me into my 60s to do it.
👏👏👏 speaking truth and facts. Thank you.
So just because your mother was on the extreme poor end of the spectrum doesn’t mean anything. My parents are boomers that grew up in the rubble of postwar Korea. Came here unable to speak English my mom worked in sweatshops and my father did manual labor.
They currently own a nice home collect social security and raised 2 kids on mainly my dad’s single income as a construction worker.
If my dirt poor parents who couldn’t speak English, had no education could become upper middle class just working hard there is absolutely no excuse for boomers that grew up here.
The opportunity afforded to their generation is now gone. Good luck buying a home or raising 2 kids on a single construction worker income today.
Already raised 4 kids and my oldest in in his 30s. We needed 2 incomes the entire time. Clinton screwed us with taxes. Ghwb screwd us with taxes, Obama did it on and on. The idea the economy was good is a lie. Just look at the concentration of wealth, some may be boomers but its in the hands of few. And millennial couldn't afford those houses in the best of economies.
So your answer is…
My parents had a shittier childhood, then your parents.
My parents are better than your parents
Yay!
This is how we lose!