Posted on 05/31/2026 2:53:08 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Once upon a time, inequality in Europe was largely horizontal. The rich western half drove BMWs and holidayed abroad, while the poorer east rewired its own appliances and queued for bread.
But three decades of catch-up growth in erstwhile communist countries has put paid to jokes about Romanian cars whose top speed was “downhill”. These days inequality in Europe has a vertical dimension—one that goes up and down family trees.
Youngsters unable to move out of their parents’ spare room due to sky-high house prices wonder if they will ever enjoy the lifestyle as adults which they knew as kids.
Thirty-somethings in jobs pay hefty taxes to fund the pensions of oldies who retired in their prime. Costs related to ageing are guzzling a quarter of the European Union’s GDP, a figure unlikely to fall as the Old Continent grows older still. To be a young European is to feel oneself an unwitting participant in an intergenerational confidence trick.
(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...
“Recent YouGov polling finds a vast generational divide when it comes to how Americans feel about the past, present, and future state of immigration in the U.S. Compared to older Americans, younger adults are more supportive of increasing legal immigration to the U.S. and of providing a pathway to citizenship for people here illegally. They are also more likely to know someone who is in the U.S. illegally and to have personally had family members immigrate to the country over the past century....
Older generations of Americans are far more concerned with the issue of immigration than younger Americans are: 61% of people who are 65 and older say legal immigration is a very important issue to them, and the same proportion say the same about illegal immigration. By contrast, just 36% of adults under 65 say each issue is very important to them.”
https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/43424-young-americans-more-supportive-immigration-poll
Sorry to shove some facts under your ose...
Dear Boomer-hating snot-nosed punks,
I am SO SO SORRY that when I was handed that Pre-Existence Preference Form, for “Era Of Birth?” I selfishly checked the “1948-1964” box. I had no idea it would piss y’all off so bad! I hope you can find it in your uber-generous and wise hearts to forgive me.
— NT
I bought my first home at age 21. I had graduated from UCSD at age 19. My dad loaned me $4,000 at 10% interest for the down payment and I repaid every penny. I purchased the 2nd house 5 years later and had saved the money necessary. I kept that one for 18 years before buying my current residence in Idaho in 2000. All paid off free and clear from the income I earned putting in 40 to 60 hours a week. There was no free lunch. I retired last year and intend to enjoy my free and clear home until I pass on.
Boomers also started with homes quite unlike what our parents had. We were thrilled to just be on our own. We had to do a lot of DIY and it wasn’t all fancy like what young people think they deserve nowadays. We also shouldered the separations and death that came with the Vietnam war and the draft.
I had to live with my Mom and Dad when my husband was drafted. I was pregnant and life was by far nothing like “selfish”.
You do understand that #1 Boomer doesn’t mean Caucasian.
A “boomer” (short for “baby boomer”) is a demographic cohort defined as individuals born between 1946 and 1964, immediately following World War II. In modern slang, the term is also used as a stereotype to describe an older person with outdated views who is out of touch with technology.
#2 White people are being exterminated in South Africa. They are being discriminated against in the USA, especially by liberals but all Americans are being disadvantaged by illegal alien invasion and massive H1B visa abuse. I see no evidence of extermination.
Pendulums swing. Society will need to return to the broken window paradigm, crack down on all crime and incivility to get back to a civil society. First steps must be to Nuke the filibuster, pass the Save America Act and redo the census. By those measures we will eliminate Democrats from the government positions they stole by election & census fraud.
>> I’d say the 2 generations before Boomers gave us the blueprint. Also, every other generation that sent their sons off to the meat grinders of war. Plenty of blame to go around.
^^^^^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^^^^
I hope the USA can inspire them to fight for a better life.
What a ridiculous post. So your family sucks. Don't paint a generation based on your family.
I choose to leave my kids set up after i am gone. I want them to be better off than I.
If that's what it takes for your kids to be better off than you, you have failed them.
Yup. You only hear from them when they want money. My middle son is behind the curve by $57,000 in money owed to me. My youngest son is well over $20,000. In reality, I never expect either of them to be able to repay. They are still calling intermittently for a spot loan.
“You do understand that #1 Boomer doesn’t mean Caucasian.”
It does in most discussions that I’ve seen, even if it is ‘officially’ defined by birth year.
One of the worst disservices you can do to a person is to tell them it’s someone else’s fault they can’t get ahead.
I do not agree with your assessment of the easier time because of expansion being unique to that time period. There have been expansions in varying sectors many times in history. The trick is to use your natural gifts, luck, hard work and oportunity to find & mine the possibilities of your time.
The boomer whiners would be more believable if there weren’t so many fortunes being made in recent years, just as in the past. History is replete with those successes. One of the marvelous things about America is that classes aren’t fixed. People move up & down, often several times in one life.
“Except most of those things were set in motion while the first “Boomers” were still in grade school.”
I’m speculating here (wouldn’t want to be accused of pulling crap out of my butt), but I suspect most generations, at least recently, had people supporting self-extermination, but they were on the margins, rather than in the positions of power necessary to effect that outcome, much less doing so.
So how much of that disparity is due to naivety?
“young-americans-more-supportive-immigration-poll”
Very effective BRAINWASHING by the older generation, specifically the Boomer Generation. Why else would babes in Europe DEMAND that mass immigration of people who will rape them into submission. In other words, something infected them. Badly.
You make me grin. It must be nice to be able to redefine works so they work better for you.
“I’d say the 2 generations before Boomers gave us the blueprint. Also, every other generation that sent their sons off to the meat grinders of war.”
War, and bloody wars, are nothing new. Agree on the blueprint, but as I noted earlier, the same types of people likely existed in the past, but were laughed at when it came to ever giving them the power to carry it out.
You come out bold and retreat fast when reality is invoked.
works = words
It must be nice to be able to type accurately. I fear I will never know.
I also thought of the Cambodians, but the goal of that government, at least as stated, was NOT to exterminate their own race and replace it with other races, but rather change the country to some sick, agrarian, culture.
As to the UK and France - yes, genocides certainly happen, even self-induced, but I still haven’t seen any examples of a culture DEMANDING mass migration of foreigners who OPENLY plan to replace and likely exterminate their existing culture/race (in this case, Whites)...until the Baby Boomer generation.
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