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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:37:54 PM EDT
[#1]
Boomers have raped and pillaged this country
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:41:15 PM EDT
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Can’t believe I’m saying this it’s usually the other way around but.
Age fighting commence!... Yes the did. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:41:37 PM EDT
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Yeah they fucked us. That's why I enjoy seeing them working past retirement age for insurance. I hope everything hurts all the time, and you'll be getting the cheap funeral.
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:42:18 PM EDT
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Maybe but they sure fucked it with laws pertaining to feelings
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:43:01 PM EDT
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Yes, yes they did.....
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:43:42 PM EDT
[#6]
socialist boomers or conservative boomers?
pagan boomers or Christian boomers maybe some other flavor of boomers? figure they are all in on it together eh? |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:44:54 PM EDT
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Over promising on Medicare/SS while not paying enough into the system to cover future costs.
Doing the same on pensions and retiree health benefits that has resulted in untold fortunes of unfunded liabilities both in the private and public sector. Both cases above are likely to see huge bailouts at taxpayer expense, despite the fact that SS/Medicare already make up roughly HALF the budget. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:45:06 PM EDT
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I was born about halfway through the baby boom generation. This country is much wealthier now than when I was growing up.
So no, boomers did not squander the wealth of the nation. What a ridiculous idea! Now, did some individual boomers squander a great deal of wealth? Yes, every generation has some that do. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:45:11 PM EDT
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LBJ, and the rest of Congress that voted in the Great Society, Not Boomers, FDR, and Congress that voted in Social Security, Not Boomers. President Nixon and the Congress that took us off the Gold Standard and let the dollar free float......not Boomers.
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:45:25 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:46:25 PM EDT
[#11]
I'm neither Boomer or Millennial, and I think the notion is ridiculous.
If you can't get what you want out of this country it's your fault, no one else's. Only in GD can someone expect personal responsibility from others but blame all their failings/hardships on someone else. Well, maybe DU, as well. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:47:30 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:47:40 PM EDT
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Boomers invented time travel, then destroyed it so others couldn't use it.
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:47:48 PM EDT
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Isn't this kinda' like saying "you people"? I'm on the tail end of the baby boom. To the best of my knowledge I didn't intentionally fuck anyone. Yet.
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:48:04 PM EDT
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Yeah they fucked us. That's why I enjoy seeing them working past retirement age for insurance. I hope everything hurts all the time, and you'll be getting the cheap funeral. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:48:04 PM EDT
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Don't know... we'll just have to see if the majority of Boomers stop working and paying into the system first.
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:49:47 PM EDT
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Boomers kicked the can down the road, but the root cause of the socioeconomic issues we're dealing with started generations prior.
I will say that most have no conception of how good they actually had it. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:49:59 PM EDT
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No, The Greatest Generation did.
Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, all elected by The Greatest Generation. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:51:04 PM EDT
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LBJ, and the rest of Congress that voted in the Great Society, Not Boomers, FDR, and Congress that voted in Social Security, Not Boomers. President Nixon and the Congress that took us off the Gold Standard and let the dollar free float......not Boomers. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:51:04 PM EDT
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You sound bitter, Jim....... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Yeah they fucked us. That's why I enjoy seeing them working past retirement age for insurance. I hope everything hurts all the time, and you'll be getting the cheap funeral. Idiots blaming the prior generation for things they didn't do. LOL, you all have a lot to learn. Hope it's not too painful. Nah, scratch that. I hope it's real painful, maybe you'll come to your senses. LC |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:51:44 PM EDT
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Something I heard. Is this one of those don’t hate the player, hate the game scenarios? Or did they rig the game or what? Boomers? What do you have to say? 
It’s true though. They were all indoctrinated at birth and brainwashed to undermine the resources of the lower masses. They all dance naked annually under the summer solstice moon to celebrate the success of their mission. Common knowledge. Duh. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:52:55 PM EDT
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short answer: yes...
Their parents, the Greatest Generation, fought WWII. They left for France and the Pacific at 17 and 18, fought overseas for years, came home, used the GI Bill to get an education or a trade, then worked their asses off to pay off the tiny house they built. The lived depression-era living, saving a little of each paycheck and accumulating a small nest egg. Their children, the Boomers, lived in an age of plenty. They grew up, often with new schools. They went to college in a time when tuition was cheap and you actually could pay your way with a part time and/or summer job. The started work in an era when the corporate pension existed: Work 20, 25 years, retire at 55 with 60% pension. Had inexpensive health insurance. They voted themselves great government handouts and ran up a zillion in national debt. They started the "But I Want it Now" lifestyle. They spend 110% of what they earned, have nothing set aside for retirement, and are relying on someone else to care for them. They had it all: Cheap college, cheap housing, great benefits. They stand to benefit from the greatest transfer of wealth in history, as their parent die and leave them the nest egg. The children of Boomers?: Lets see. they are inheriting an essential broke country. Education is now unaffordable. Those that go to college will have massive debt. When they start work, their real wages - accounting for inflation- are considerably lower than the Boomers. They will not have a pension, instead get a 401K. Those few that do have pensions are in "tier 5" or some altered plan that requires higher contributions, longer work span, for far less benefits. When they marry and have kids, family insurance plans are far more expensive. Oh, and since the Boomers still demand more than their fair share of the pie, this generation will pay higher taxes, which are funneled directly to the Boomers. Boomers lived in a gravy age, consuming the wealth of their parents, and they are now - as a generation - going to impoverish their children and grandchildren.... |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:53:53 PM EDT
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Don't know... we'll just have to see if the majority of Boomers stop working and paying into the system first. If you work productively into old age, you are stealing a younger employee's promotion, that they are owed. If you retire early and allow same employee to advance their career and portfolio, you are stealing their increase in pay in "entitlements". The only reasonable solution is obviously..... 
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:54:05 PM EDT
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All I know is my parent's pension is six figures until the day they die. That is a deal that nobody from my generation will ever receive.
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:54:34 PM EDT
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Lol's
Fuck ya'll. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:55:37 PM EDT
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Don't know... we'll just have to see if the majority of Boomers stop working and paying into the system first. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:57:40 PM EDT
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There is a group that came after us boomers.
All Y'all are called whiny little crybabies, free shit army, and snowflakes! |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 9:58:09 PM EDT
[#28]
 ETA: Crying bitches...........life is what you make it. Always has been. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:00:25 PM EDT
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I'm neither Boomer or Millennial, and I think the notion is ridiculous. If you can't get what you want out of this country it's your fault, no one else's. Only in GD can someone expect personal responsibility from others but blame all their failings/hardships on someone else. Well, maybe DU, as well. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:02:53 PM EDT
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I'm neither Boomer or Millennial, and I think the notion is ridiculous. If you can't get what you want out of this country it's your fault, no one else's. Only in GD can someone expect personal responsibility from others but blame all their failings/hardships on someone else. Well, maybe DU, as well. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:03:00 PM EDT
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No Government did.
Democrats gave away our Social Security. Carter gave OUR benefits to Cubans who floated up during in the boat lift. Congress has sold us out to everybody. Unions, same thing. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:03:22 PM EDT
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Most of the social programs people keep bitching about were put solidly in place long before most boomers ever reached voting age.
Paychecks have been pillaged to provide for Social Security for many decades, nobody alive today put those wheels in motion, and there have never been serious political candidates over the years who pushed to eliminate or seriously trim back the programs. You know.............. Just like today. Everybody, no matter their age, worries mainly about filling their own rice bowl. It is human nature. Bitching about the other guy's rice bowl being overly full seems to be human nature as well. Lots of people on this forum seem to harbor the same class envy they bitch so heartily about when on display in the leftists and socialists. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:03:42 PM EDT
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ETA: Crying bitches...........life is what you make it. Always has been. 
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:03:43 PM EDT
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A Boomer thread????
Let me adjust the pillows.
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:04:10 PM EDT
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You only believe that if you are a fucking ignorant moron of a millennial!
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:04:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Boomer trap: If you work productively into old age, you are stealing a younger employee's promotion, that they are owed. If you retire early and allow same employee to advance their career and portfolio, you are stealing their increase in pay in "entitlements". The only reasonable solution is obviously..... https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/135145/ss_reform-444817.jpg Lucky for me, I'm an X'er so nobody will notice me being a slacker in my old age. 
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:06:25 PM EDT
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It's coming. SS will pay out more than it takes in within a year or two, the first time it's had this happen in nearly 40 years. This is also not likely to be corrected and by current estimates the trust fund's reserves will be entirely depeleted by 2035. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Don't know... we'll just have to see if the majority of Boomers stop working and paying into the system first. 
"Social Security has problems, but running out of cash isn't one of them The big question a lot of folks (especially millennials) are probably asking about Social Security, given its many problems, is this: When, exactly, will the program run out of cash? Believe it or not, the honest answer, assuming no changes to the way Social Security is funded, is never." https://www.fool.com/retirement/2018/11/09/heres-when-social-security-will-run-out-of-cash.aspx |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:07:02 PM EDT
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Not yet.
Taxes can still go alot higher. And they will. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:07:19 PM EDT
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You're an under-40 Boomer, so your opinion on this doesn't count. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm neither Boomer or Millennial, and I think the notion is ridiculous. If you can't get what you want out of this country it's your fault, no one else's. Only in GD can someone expect personal responsibility from others but blame all their failings/hardships on someone else. Well, maybe DU, as well.
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:08:06 PM EDT
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made it before the boomer memes
If I was born a boomer I would be retired at 40 with a few mil in the bank 
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:08:09 PM EDT
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socialist boomers or conservative boomers? pagan boomers or Christian boomers maybe some other flavor of boomers? figure they are all in on it together eh?  .... Woodstock 
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:09:05 PM EDT
[#42]
Wealth isn't fixed, it can be created. I mean, some of the boomers deserve a lot of shit, but thats not a reason why.
Just to be clear, though, if you're mad at boomers, you should definitely let them know about it, especially if you're a millennial. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:09:31 PM EDT
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I can’t say one way or another boomers screwed me over-i’m 46 and my parents have been smart with their money and haven’t blown it. We started off poor with dad in the USAF, he went to college and got his physics and math degrees after he got out, and has worked his ass off thru his career. I think he and my mom will be millionaires when he retires in a few years, but a million doesn’t go as far as it used to.
I hope they die broke and don’t leave us anything. I can remember times growing up where we are and dad didn’t because there wasn’t enough to go around. THAT was enough of a gift from that Boomer for me to not give a damn about how his generation did me and mine. America has always been about Equal Opportunity and not Equal Outcomes. My retirement won’t be as good as his will be, I don’t really care. My adult life has been pretty good and I have pretty much done everything I wanted to do. If retirement for me means sitting on a couch reminiscing about the good life I had when I was younger, that will be enough for me. As long as I have enough to eat and pay taxes, anything above that is just gravy. Boomers didn’t put me in whatever position I end up retiring in, *I* did. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:09:38 PM EDT
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Most of the social programs people keep bitching about were put solidly in place long before most boomers ever reached voting age. Paychecks have been pillaged to provide for Social Security for many decades, nobody alive today put those wheels in motion, and there have never been serious political candidates over the years who pushed to eliminate or seriously trim back the programs. You know.............. Just like today. Everybody, no matter their age, worries mainly about filling their own rice bowl. It is human nature. Bitching about the other guy's rice bowl being overly full seems to be human nature as well. Lots of people on this forum seem to harbor the same class envy they bitch so heartily about when on display in the leftists and socialists. That's not the case nowadays. Average life expectancy exceeds the current retirement age for SS, meaning the vast majority of people paying in can expect to receive benefits. The original program had good intentions and was sustainable as designed, however it was turned from a safety net into an entitlement similar to what the dims want to do with Medicare. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:10:39 PM EDT
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When the Social Security program was created, it gave benefits to people who exceeded the average life expectancy. In other words, a huge portion of the people paying in would die without ever seeing a single dime back from the system. That's not the case nowadays. Average life expectancy exceeds the current retirement age for SS, meaning the vast majority of people paying in can expect to receive benefits. The original program had good intentions and was sustainable as designed, however it was turned from a safety net into an entitlement similar to what the dims want to do with Medicare. Fuck that, fuck FDR, and fuck Social Security right in it's communist asshole. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:10:59 PM EDT
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short answer: yes... The started work in an era when the corporate pension existed: Work 20, 25 years, retire at 55 with 60% pension. Had inexpensive health insurance. They voted themselves great government handouts and ran up a zillion in national debt. Handouts? Is this the part where people that started to be eligible to vote in 1967 (21 voting age then) time traveled to vote for FDR and LBJ? |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:11:09 PM EDT
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I'm neither Boomer or Millennial, and I think the notion is ridiculous. If you can't get what you want out of this country it's your fault, no one else's. Only in GD can someone expect personal responsibility from others but blame all their failings/hardships on someone else. Well, maybe DU, as well. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:11:46 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:11:53 PM EDT
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Yeah they fucked us. That's why I enjoy seeing them working past retirement age for insurance. I hope everything hurts all the time, and you'll be getting the cheap funeral. |
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Posted: 4/24/2019 10:13:26 PM EDT
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LBJ, and the rest of Congress that voted in the Great Society, Not Boomers, FDR, and Congress that voted in Social Security, Not Boomers. President Nixon and the Congress that took us off the Gold Standard and let the dollar free float......not Boomers. It was the Greatest Generation that is to blame. Why don't you guys learn to count? Boomers were not of voting age then. |
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