Posted on 12/07/2022 11:55:48 AM PST by JV3MRC
Leave it to leftist rags like Fortune magazine to target older Americans to insulate President Joe Biden’s disastrous economic policies from blame for the ongoing inflation struggle.
The magazine published a condescending Nov. 30 story with a ridiculous headline: “Aging boomers are making it harder to tame inflation—and there are no quick solutions in sight.” Fortune complained about “fewer older Americans handing over your fast food order or working part-time at the local grocery store” before dipping deeper in the toilet of brazen elitism. “Those missing workers are not just causing the ‘help wanted’ signs to linger, but are actually making it harder to tame sky-high inflation levels,” Fortune spewed. Never mind that sky-high inflation presumably wouldn’t be this much of an issue in the first place if it weren’t for the Federal Reserve’s insane money-printing policies compounded by Biden’s spending spree initiated through his gargantuan $1.9 trillion stimulus in 2021.
In fact, Fortune’s propaganda piece didn't even mention the word “Biden." It even attempted to wield analysis from the environmental, social and governance standards (ESG)-obsessed BlackRock to lambaste the changing demographics and make the Fed appear like a victim.
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My wife and I are 68. I’ve discussed spending with a lot of my “elderly” friends. And one thing that is constantly mentioned is how little stuff we boomers buy. We just don’t need all the trappings like we did when we were younger.
Even food. We raise our own chickens and don’t eat as “high” as we did when we were young. It’s not that important any more.
It’s those spending lots of money on “stuff” that fuel inflation. And it ain’t the boomers.
Is there any -- any -- thought process that really allows someone to think Baby Boomers are causing Biden's inflation?
I’ve worked hard most of my life starting as just a kid stocking shelves in a supermarket.
I’m DONE working. All they’ve ever done since my first day of work is steal money from me via of legalized theft called “taxes”. I’m finished with that . They can go pound sand.
Is there anything they are NOT blamed for?
Government and the Federal Reserve will blame anyone except themselves.
Take able body people off welfare, fill them jobs.
Throw the illegals out.
Let us older folk live the lives we earned.
Every time I go to a grocery store, these days, I buy less. Too expensive
If they are talking specifically about the boomers in the White House, Federal Reserve, and Congress, then I’d say they are spot on.
“We just don’t need all the trappings like we did when we were younger.”
This. Is that not how it should be?
We're boomers. That's why we don't spend much. $12 per burrito? Next time I spend that for a burrito it had better be in pesos.
Fortune complained about “fewer older Americans handing over your fast food order or working part-time at the local grocery store”
Those are jobs for teenagers or people who failed to graduate high school. The last thing we need is more Boomers who refuse to retire and make way for the next generation.
I think what they are saying is that the Boomers refuse to join the workforce and that is driving up wages and costs. Still stupid of course.
We needed to add another term to the “guilt-trippers” lexicon:
Boomer Privilege: The hubris older persons experience when, after a full lifetime of work and retirement plan contributions, they actually retire AND actually expect to stop working.
The nerve of some people!
Are Biden and his crew aging Boomers?
MAGA Shrugged
Many of them aren’t interested in working until they die in order to support the half the country on welfare who don’t work at all.
As a boomer, I remember very distinctly almost every one of my friends in High School working part time jobs at grocery stores, fast food, retail back in the 1970’s.
Now when I go to these places I see a few teens working, but also many older folks. Plus and lots and lots of seniors.
Also we worked on construction crews during college summers. Hard, physical (sometimes dangerous) work in the heat of summer. I literally NEVER see young middle class people working these jobs these days, as they are ALL filled by hispanics.
Biden isn’t a boomer, he is from the John McCain, Jane Fonda, William Ayers, Barbra Streisand, Robert De Niro, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix generation.
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