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.
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so it talks about Boomers milking the system on the backs of millenials and Gen Z. As usual, Gen X doesn’t exist. Most aptly named generation ever.
Absolutely - and think their total control of television was the weapon they needed.
I choose to leave my kids set up after i am gone. I want them to be better off than I.
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If that’s what it takes for your kids to be better off than you, you have failed them.
“I’ve never met a “Boomer” who supported illegal immigration.”
PLENTY of them, virtually every elected Democrat - hell, they not only support them, they PROTECT them, they even demand they be able to vote.
Add to that a good number of Republican leaders, including Bush Jr., who looked the other way, but loved the low-wage labor they provided.
And just a generation before that, we had Operation Wetback - which is the REAL NAME for the real effort to deport Illegals. Something changed...just about the time the Baby Boom Generation started seizing power.
“So you are actually blaming ‘Rats.”
Actually, I blame Bush Jr. for opening the floodgates. The Dems simply ran with it, once they saw the political advantage.
The Boomers who’ve taken over 80% of the country’s institutions are hell-bent on eliminating the middle class, a typical goal of tyrants. The Boomers who are the middle class are fed up, and with Trump they are pushing back, pushing back hard - and making gains. The 80%-institution’s tyrannical leaders are looking for a bogeyman to get the non-Boomers on their side.
Blame the “Boomers”! They caused all your problems, Gen XYZ Millenials, blame the middle class Boomers who are giving us Fascist Boomers grief in our quest to eliminate the pesky middle class. They’re making it hard for us to have all the power, and you Gen XYZMs can’t become middle class because of THEM. Hate them!
12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you,
Exodus 20:12
The only one with a promise from God.
AMEN
Ahh, yes. The Bolshevik philosophy of envy and hate. Totally wrong and misguided. Tool.
Hey, how can you have any money if you didn’t work and save?
How can you accumulate compound interest if you don’t make savings?
You ever looked at a 1970s McDonalds menu where a cheeseburger was 25c?
Or how about a new house that was $15K?
How did prices increase so much?
The dollar is only worth a few cents nowadays compared to what it was 50 years ago.
Rather than yelling at ppl like money is gold coins and you don’t have any try looking at who devalued the money you do have. It’s essentially worthless now. Who did that? Us Boomers know who did that and have been voting against them for 50 years!
lol
Brats
F that
Yall are the crybabies
We bitched about the establishment etc
But the mantra from millennials and zoomers is ridiculous
Overindulged
Welcome to the world and make the best of it
Demonizing anyone over 50 is weak
One point I’ll give yall maybe two actually
Housing is ridiculous in hot areas no question of that
And I feel your pain because after selling out to Kali here in Williamson county with acreage I’m debt free at 68 but I’m renting in green hills and I know I can’t afford to buy where average home is 2-4m
Unless you guys live in less desirable cities with less opportunity it’s prohibitive
And AI likely will dig into your employment opportunities
But how that’s boomers faults beats me
What’s driven up prices in red states is blue state refugees with political or economic
If I had to blame boomers for a big thing it’d be the loosening of sexual mores
But the pill wasn’t boomers nor was Hugh Hefner
And the Warren court which ushered in civil rights and around the same time legislative great society were neither boomer results we were kids then
Generational actions are kind of fluid and build off one another
The leftism we have now is late 1800s with roots in Eastern Europe migrating here and a dose of Puritanism
Plus Lincoln and later reconstruction ushered in a stronger federal govt
And so it goes
Maybe you don’t like your folks
Mine were perfect for the record
I think they were silent generation born 1932
You mean always the target?
Only a boomer would say that lol.
“Logic” such is this is the cause of Europe’s almost certain downfall. Perhaps looking into the fact that ALL THINGS LEFT FAIL is the cause, not any specific birth decade group. I’m old enough to remember when the WSJ was a creditable news source. Now it sleeps with the NYT clowns.
I’d prefer some Trockenbeeren Auslese from Rheinland/Pfalz!
But, you’re in the ballpark.
Did you forget the sarc tag?
Cuz your post doesn’t make any sense to me.
What’s your evidence boomers are selfish
Show your receipts
Here in Nashville I constantly see kids in first homes either boomer or Xer parents or grandparents helped them get in
And look at voter stats
Over 50s vote right more than any group
You’ve bought into the Karen world media representation which is fake news
I know 200 boomers by name and maybe 5-6 are libs
And they give their descendants their estates same as anyone before them
And you do know at least half of boomers are old dead and or retired
If they’re working it’s cause they have to usually
Or it’s a job that’s not exactly intrusive like my 61 year old wife has
Selling very expensive clothing to rich women which she’s very good at having been rich once she speaks the language
But she’s not taking a zoomers job
And letting Europe be overrun with Muslims is the answer because isn’t that what is happening over there?
Not me
Other than not great health my problems are on me
I’m living proof you can be diligent work 6-7 days a week and grind it out of bed when the psoriatic arthritis or heart disease is raging and still have bad luck
If I could change anything I’d have put my at risk 11 dependents on tighter budgets in hindsight
But anyone here who’s supported 11 people including five minors and one mentally disabled elderly please feel free to judge
What’s this I hear about “Boomers?”
Oh, damn!
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!
I feel better now.
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