There is no generation that has paid more in taxes and then had it squandered than the boomers. Our monies have been stolen, our SS has been stolen, our property taxes have turned into rent and our sons and daughters died for nothing.
Don’t tell me our generation is worthless. We at least still show up for work on time as we can read a clock and we show up sober. We are still paying for your idiotic life style, sleeping in our basements, eating our food and driving our cars. You spend meaningless time surfing social media sites, playing electronic games and watching porn. You complain about no work available when you have wasted 5 years of your life getting a useless degree in the “mating cycle of the African tse tse fly” and “womens African studies” all along obtaining student loans worthy of a really nice house.
Maybe you should have been thrown out the door on your ass at 18 and gotten a job as a welders helper, a plumbers helper or maybe ditch digger.
The only thing we are guilty of is giving you too much. Too many cars, too much allowance, too many cell phones, too may trips and too much freedom hoping it would promote your independence and responsibility. We did fail.
This is the best post in this thread.
Many of the failures of millennials today can be tied to how they were raised, and the fact that parents still allow 28 year olds to live in the basement.
Adding on to the fact boomers as parents started giving out participation trophies, made everyone feel “special” and were concerned more about “Self esteem” then results, it shouldn’t be a surprise.
Fortunately, being a child of Reagan helped me avoid many of these after school programs designed more to make you feel good, then actually get results.
Well, I did not do that, so what are you complaining about?
What is 'your generation'? And I think you have pegged me with the wrong age group.
And at 18, I was working in a meat packing plant to get money for college. My degrees are in math and comp sci, and they paid off quite well, thank you very much.
I said nothing about one generation being better than another, just that it was the leftist ideas that took over in the USA, starting with Teddy Roosevelt's progressive ideas, through Hoover (technocrat) and FDR (wall street fascist) through LBJ to the current abomination.
Starting an intergenerational fight is just a diversion. It's a "let's you and him fight" diversion from the real source of the troubles.
Or maybe you were responding to somebody else.