Baby Boomers Better Beware

Matthew’s Substack ^ | 20 Apr, 2025 | Matt Bracken

[Ikeon]

I am a Jones generation, the greatest asset i was ever given being born when I was, was my parents grew up during ww2 and niether were from wealthy families.

I learned early on my parents would say no to any toy I brought to them in the store.

Otoh they never stopped me from going around the neighborhood asking if a sidewalk needed to be shoveled, never said no to a 7 day week paper route, never helped me at 4 am sunday morning in a blizzard to deliver newspapers.

nope, my parents never went to bat for me if I was under paid, had a scuffle at school or anywhere else.

The cops never brought me home so I was left alone.

I thank God that I was left with the impression work and payday were a blessing.

And that new concept of "Work/life" balance.. lol. That's as bad as "I feel". Leave your feelings at home and get your butt into work. You got sick days for your feels, use them. Out of sick days??? You're not getting paid and we'll talk about it next performance review.

[MinorityRepublican]

First the left created a myth by Tom Brokaw creating a fake generation that he called the “Greatest Generation”, and the left erased the generation called the “Silent Generation”, and then created a myth of 3 year olds and 20 year olds taking over America in the 1960s and completely changing everything, and now building on those myths to sell to young voters that the old white Americans are stealing everything from them, have always stole everything from others, and need to be defeated and replaced by an America of color, economic fairness, equality, and immigration.

That's propaganda. Obviously, it was effective.

America drifted left ever since the Baby Boomers seized power.

Hippies, etc.

Trump is the only "Boomer" who's an anti-boomer.

[dfwgator]

My point is they just need someone “good enough”, and Newsom might be “good enough”.

[HonkyTonkMan]

Is it the Boomers fault GenX politicians such as Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy crashed out? How about Tim Scott, Rand Paul?

While the media divides us with identity politics, generational in this case, the adversary is executing a multi-decade strategy to influence, shape, and redirect our way of life.

[Brian Griffin]

Let’s make housing affordable for $200,000/year households.

What about the more numerous $150,000/year households?

Take care of them!

That will place the $200,000/year households underwater financially.

What about the even more numerous $100,000/year households?

Take care of them!

That will place the $200,000/year households and the $150,000/year households underwater financially.

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What should be done instead? Individual household adjustment, mainly by moving to places offering a better spread between incomes and fixed costs.

[tinamina]

I’m a baby boomer. I wonder why they got the idea that we have an easy. One tI’m a baby boomer. I wonder why they got the idea that we have had it so easy. One thing we had was a good educational system. I had read all the books from the library up to the six grade when I was in third grade. I had my first job at 12. I picked cherries. While in high school I paid for all my own school clothes. By working in the fields in the summer and I did work study before and after school.
My parents had 12 children. I was the oldest. My mother had eight children in five years so we are all very close together. Two sets of twins. We went to church several times a week.
My father was a drunk who rode the freight train with the hobos to find a better living for his family. We lived in a house with no bathroom and no running water, and my mother had one of the children by herself in that house when I was 12.
These spoiled brats cannot tell me about hardship.
We lived through how many useless wars where our government spent all the money and beautiful young lives for no benefit to us. We saw the beginnings of the welfare state, and the great society that only eroded the work ethic of the populace, We went from having to pay $3000 for a car a new car to $40,000 for a new car, through 21% interest rates to Clinton declaring we didn’t need our manufacturing, shipped it overseas and needed to import people from India on H1B visas and pay them slave wages to further undermine our incomes.
We are lucky that we survive to get our Social Security, what’s left of it hasn’t been given out to foreigners.
Now we face a younger generation who wants to kill us because they think we’re rich and they can get the money that they deserve because we’re just a greedy entitled worthless eater horde.

[cherry]

I intend to leave as much as I can to my children...its the old legacy thing from my heritage...older generations helped the younger ones....in Viet Nam,not only are you supp9sed to help ..ie..with money..but younger brothers or sisters as well..

[Palio di Siena]

You can’t argue with a sick mind. Joe Walsh.
There are a lot of sick minds out there- most with zero understanding of how western civilization will devolve when the influence of white males becomes less than necessary to preserve law and order
The decline is noticeable now - my rough estimate is that 25% of the population
have no concept of civil responsibility- the number is growing.
It will reach a point where it will get very ugly.
AOC or Gavin Newsom will be president one day.
Demographics are destiny.

[SaxxonWoods]

The kids don’t want their inheritance but they love government? OK, fine. I’ll send it in to pay down the National Debt.

[sport]

And what you have to look forward to is: After Trump's term has expired, the fools and idiots will put someone in the White House than will make Harris look like a member of MENSA by comparison. And their way of governing when compared to how Harris would have governed will make Harris seem like a Sunday School picnic. Never forget: Each year every high school , college, and university graduates a class full of indoctrinated idiots. Each year we lose from death a certain number of our voters. p>

[Gnome1949]

Baby Boomers are heavily armed and well-trained with firearms. Don’t WARN US !

If we go down, we go down fighting like hell and taking a lot of zombies with us. We won’t die in a ditch on our knees. We carry in our veins the blood of our American ancestors who were some fightin’ sumbitches.

If the crybabies want something, they can work hard and EARN what they want to acquire. Young people are not ENTITLED to anything.

[cherry]

My parents were lower middle class but we always ate well and had a couple of long weekends to the Jersey shore..we all went to Catholic school and 4 out of 6 went to Catholic hs....yet my parents left us some money and their values...that is what I aim to do..

do I think many boomers are ingrates and selfish?..yes I do..many vote for themselves..I can honestly say I have always voted for the benefit of future generations.

[Brian Griffin]

Right attitude
Right skills
Right place

[packagingguy]

That is one of the biggest problems, offshoring.

When I was really young it seemed like there was always a strike for better wages.

We had Democrats/Republicans, labor/management that guided politics here, in Canada and the UK.

Then management won. We lost the balance of the Yin and Yang.

You can’t graduate high school, join the union and get a good paying job to raise a family. You’re competing against the world, alone. Whether that competition is in China, India, or hopped over the border five minutes ago.

[webheart]

You are planning on giving everything to a food bank and animal shelter if she dies before you?

[ansel12]

America’s major moves left, the irreversible ones, came from the generations prior to the boomers gaining power.

An example of age is that the first election in which all boomers were even old enough to vote, was in 1984, now look at all the deep uprooting of America that can never be undone and its origins, those changes predate recent America and were from the eras of Wilson and FDR, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Carter. the universities, the military, the legal system, the Warren Court, immigration, the mental hospitals, vagrancy laws, Hollywood/TV, public schools, unions, regulations, automobiles, and on and on.

[Justa]

They should direct their anger at the Democrats, Deep state and corporations.

They’re the ones who ran deficits since the ‘70s. Destroying wealth creation as they increased the public debt.

If ppl can’t appreciate debt they will not understand what wealth is and how to build it.

Like a frustrated simpleton they turn on ppl to blame for their own misfortunes and bad choices.

[P-Marlowe]

FWIW, there are more guns in my suburban neighborhood than people or pets.

[ansel12]

“””””I have lived in a hut with an outhouse and in a 15 foot RV with no shower so I had to shower outside with a hose.””””

A huge number of boomers were born into homes without full indoor plumbing.
“1940, when nearly half lacked complete plumbing. Then, about ten States had rates approaching or exceeding 70 percent. In succeeding decades, the proportion of homes lacking complete plumbing dropped dramatically, falling to about one-third in 1950 and one- sixth in 1960.”

https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/dec/coh-plumbing.html

[lgjhn23]

Grew up in a largye, poor family in an economically-depressed area in the 1950s.
My wife didn’t have it any better in her family and area either....farm girl.
WE both worked very hard for what little bit we have. How we spend it or what we do with it, is NOBODY’s business....and oh yeah....we’re aware, very aware.
These whackos can go ESAD....