BusterAg said:
Tony Franklins Other Shoe said:
BusterAg said:
Rattler12 said:
BusterAg said:
Rattler12 said:
BonfireNerd04 said:
MemphisAg1 said:
Zobel said:
I'm not trying to steal anything from anyone.
You couldn't engage with actual discussion about the ethics of the situation, so, what - you're just going to ad hom your way through this? Good plan, really persuasive.
Lol, you haven't tried a serious discussion from the OP all the way to here. And your pitch has been all about stealing, although it's wrapped in guilt-shaming, condescension, and distortion of the facts. It's opened my eyes though to how desperate some of the younger generation is to skip out on their obligations to society -- paying into SS -- that many others before you have done faithfully for 90 years. I say "some" because fortunately there are still a lot of fine people in the younger generations who will do the right thing and work constructively to address the challenges of tomorrow.
Oh yeah, how convenient that it's our obligation to pay taxes for the benefits that your already-wealthy generation is receiving, in order to leave an empty husk when it's our turn to retire.
You're Exhibit A for why the Boomers are hated.
We've lived in a 3 bdrm, 2 bath house with a carport for 28 years and on a fixed income for the last 13. Where is all this wealth that I am supposed to have? I drive an 8 year old pickup. We and folks just like me are paying property taxes for your kids to get a K-12 education. We don't go out to eat, we don't take expensive vacations. We paid for our parents SS benefits, they paid for their parents. Again where is this mass wealth that all us Boomers have accumulated?
Apparently the worst thing some of us boomers did was raise a bunch of whiny little brats and some of them continued with theirs.
No.
This is the worst thing you guys collectively did:
The majority of "us guys" had nothing to do with that. Now a small percentage number of guys of our generation that are/ were running the country are100% the cause of it.
How did they come to power?
I'm not blaming you, Rattler. But, your generation kinda financially screwed the next generation royally. It's not helpful to pretend that isn't what happened. It's not really helpful to get on TexAgs and whine about Boomers, either, admittedly.
The best an individual can do is vote against Leviathan.
So the Boomer vote outnumbers all the other generations combined? Seems like a solid, smart, fiscally responsible voting block could cancel all us selfish old farts out. Isn't that how the country is supposed to work?
So, Boomers arnt 100% responsible for the national debt. Just mostly responsible. Expecting every other generation to band together to offset the collective dumbassery, and denying all culpability because we didn't protect the rest of the country from their own selfishness is peak Boomer.
This kind of stuff always perplexes. GenX but will defend `boomers' against this charge if you mean just those that are below the ruling class. As we have seen, who you elect doesn't really matter -- they are unaccountable. The November 2024 election was one of the most overt in message sending around short of a revolution, and its
still being nullified by the system. The "boomers" didn't vote for the overwhelming amount of the crap their "elected" ended up putting in. You can just tell by the laws. None of us would have passed those laws or regulations, yet they get imposed.
Really blame must remain with the culprits -- the political ruling class and the media press class that runs interference for them and often intermarries with them.
