All that you say is true. I don't like, however, blaming an entire generation for the problems created by a select elected few.
The first thing that needs to be done is for politicians to stop lying to the American public by intentionally using deceptive numbers when discussing our situation. They divide the budget into two categories - discretionary and non-discretionary spending.
Democrats always talk about the percentage of the budget that goes to defense by dividing it by one of the two categories rather than the sum of two categories as the denominator and yet the percentages for their pet projects are always given with the proper denominator as the sum of discretionary and non-discretionary spending resulting in what appears to be a smaller percentage of total spending when in fact their projects are a much more significant percentage of total spending.
They never discus non-discretionary items ( entitlements ) because they are off the table ( sacrosanct third rails of politics by design ) and then falsely claim that defense is a much larger percent of the total budget than it is.
Defense is categorized as discretionary spending when it is in fact one of the primary obligations of the Federal Government where as the justification for “Entitlements” can't be found anywhere in the Constitution except for some nebulous interpretation of the “General Welfare” clause.
It's a fine mess they have gotten us into.
The war btwn generational classes calling each other names usually ignores that it is a matter of degrees. All had liberals and all made mistakes relative to their situation, and all endured some degree of hardship (most of all the silent generation and least of all the most recent, but that will soon change ) but at least we have research on which is most conservative:
- https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/20/a-wider-partisan-and-ideological-gap-between-younger-older-generations/
https://gobranded.com/political-party-affiliation-millennials-versus-baby-boomers/: According to our research on the U.S. midterm election, many consumers intend to vote today. Millennials and Baby Boomers make up the largest voting blocks in the U.S. Millennials (age 22-38) are roughly 71 million strong in the U.S. while Baby Boomers (age 51-69) are about 74 million strong. Approximately 85 percent of Baby Boomers and 79 percent of Millennials told us they intend to vote in the midterm election. However, we will have to wait to see the true turn-out.
Party affiliation matters in the U.S. midterm election. Branded’s research found that both Millennials and Baby Boomers are most likely to be affiliated with the Democrat party. Approximately 43 percent of Millennials and 37 percent of Baby Boomers say they belong to the Democrat party.