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What do you youngin's want? A hug.... To be told your special? A trophy for participation? You upset that your going to have to pay out the a$$ for the next thirty year's for someone else's retirement? That your going to work longer and harder and make less money for it? That your government isn't listening to you? That "gasp" your candidate didn't win? Well... guess what... welcome to being a grown-up. Suck it up.. buttercups..........
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aus10, I couldn't have said it better. They complain about paying for other people's retirement but they have not problem with welfare. As for paying for someone else's retirement... welcome to just a little taste of socialism.
I guess as young Americans we shouldn't care about our country's future
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I'm so sick and tired of getting on here and every three weeks or so having some young thing, telling me how I screwed up this country. I didn't do jack to you. I'm a baby boomer. A fifty-year-old boomer who still has 17 years more till retirement. Who was still pooping in my pampers while decisions like social security, medicare, etc were going on. I didn't elect Nixon. My first presidential election was Reagan. I tend to lean left on social issues like abortion and gay marriage. I lean so far to the right on fiscal issues it will make one's head spin. I believe in hard work. I believe in gun rights. I believe that you reap what you sow. And if all the whining here is any indication, the whining generation WILL have it worse than any other generation. Not by the hands of someone else, but by their own attitude and stupidity.
I'm glad someone gets it ha. Could not have put it better myself.
The home prices, car prices, and price of gas were pretty surprising. Can't believe they're still trying to make an argument.
And you guys are missing something pretty important here - Baby boomers are still alive and kicking, dealing with the same workforce issues, housing prices, vehicle prices, inflation, etc that you're complaining about.
Another thing you're missing is that when we were in our twenties and thirties, WE WERE NOT RICH EITHER (nor are most of us rich now). We were driving old beater cars, living in small houses or trailers or apartments, working our butts off, paying exorbitant levels of interest on homes and vehicles, dealing with huge swings when it came to gas prices, economic downturns, war (with a DRAFT no less, not a voluntary military force), etc. with a lot lower level of personal luxury than people enjoy now.
So please - quit whining. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Baby boomers have already learned that lesson the hard way. Now it's your turn. Grow a pair.
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I guess as young Americans we shouldn't care about our country's future
I'm glad you care.. We did... Lot good that did us... I expect it'll do the same for you. Unless your in the "inner circle" of D.C. you'll see. Take a good look in the mirror when your 50. Then come back and tell me how your generation "saved" things. It doesn't take a psychic to tell you... it ain't happening.... Your me.. thirty years ago... only difference... I didn't set on my ass complaining about it.
People like you resort to personal attacks and insults when they run out of arguments.
Pitiful.
Run out of arguments????!!!!!:sm ack:
I'm not arguing, I'm using math and I clearly win this argument to anyone who has the capacity to think critically. Are the people I know who graduated H.S. and than almost immediately started to buy houses and start families arguments. Are their lives and pensions figments of my imagination.
Do the numbers showing people made in one year almost the value of the cost of their homes a fiction narrative from an alien world?
We're not even having an argument. I'm describing objective true reality based on actual people and historical numbers.
I don't even know what you're talking about?
What are you arguing? The numbers are the numbers and the people I know are real.
In 1972 I was paid $1.10/hr while at University to wash dishes and the walls in the cafeteria. This was not my first job but couldn't recall the wages for my other prior employment. Was grateful for the job. Been working ever since.
I'm glad you care.. We did... Lot good that did us... I expect it'll do the same for you. Unless your in the "inner circle" of D.C. you'll see. Take a good look in the mirror when your 50. Then come back and tell me how your generation "saved" things. It doesn't take a psychic to tell you... it ain't happening.... Your me.. thirty years ago... only difference... I didn't set on my ass complaining about it.
Right on. I worked anywhere I could. I wasn't too proud to work in a convenience store, or in fast food, or in a daycare center or a jail. I wasn't too proud to drive a car with 400k miles on it. I wasn't too proud to wait till I was 31 to buy my first, TINY house or for my kids to share a bedroom, or to do without cable TV or eating out. I wasn't too proud to share ONE car in our household with my husband - we had a car and a bike. When I needed the car, he rode his bike to work.
This is the honest truth - we went FIVE YEARS without eating out (unless our parents paid for it) or even buying sodas or chips. That is the truth. We couldn't afford it so we didn't do it. I cooked at home and we brought our lunch to work with us in a lunch box.
We didn't have a big wedding or an expensive honeymoon. We didn't have every gadget and toy. We didn't get new cars when we turned 16 or graduated from high school - we got a watch or a weekend in Panama City for our graduation present. We worked full time while we went to college.
Though I had access to a car when I was in high school, I rode the bus to school, because I shared that car with my mother. And no, we were not a poor family, we were middle class. I caught the bus every morning at 6:30 am and got back home on that same bus every evening at 4:30. Most teens today would consider that absolutely abusive for parents to even consider that as an option for their kids.
You have to admit $600 full time tuition was much more affordable than $4000+ per semester today. Wages have not kept up with inflation at all. When baby boomers were starting out, the minimum wage was equivalent to about $10 today.
We didn't pay $400 for cell phones, and $200 a month on cable television.
I'm not arguing, I'm using math and I clearly win this argument to anyone who has the capacity to think critically. Are the people I know who graduated H.S. and than almost immediately started to buy houses and start families arguments. Are their lives and pensions figments of my imagination.
Do the numbers showing people made in one year almost the value of the cost of their homes a fiction narrative from an alien world?
We're not even having an argument. I'm describing objective true reality based on actual people and historical numbers.
I don't even know what you're talking about?
What are you arguing? The numbers are the numbers and the people I know are real.
You're awfully naive if you truly think that stats can't be skewered and that personal anecdotes prove anything.
You have your opinion and life experiences and I have mine. You have your stats and your math and I have mine. I guess we're at what one calls an impasse.
And you guys are missing something pretty important here - Baby boomers are still alive and kicking, dealing with the same workforce issues, housing prices, vehicle prices, inflation, etc that you're complaining about.
Another thing you're missing is that when we were in our twenties and thirties, WE WERE NOT RICH EITHER (nor are most of us rich now). We were driving old beater cars, living in small houses or trailers or apartments, working our butts off, paying exorbitant levels of interest on homes and vehicles, dealing with huge swings when it came to gas prices, economic downturns, war (with a DRAFT no less, not a voluntary military force), etc. with a lot lower level of personal luxury than people enjoy now.
So please - quit whining. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Baby boomers have already learned that lesson the hard way. Now it's your turn. Grow a pair.
Yet your sitting at the top of the totem pole. Your not just starting out.
This whole "whining" thing is honestly getting old. I've probably done more at my age of 27 then you did by that age. So please stop. I'm working harder than most people, old or young.
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