Agreed. I worked my ass off, and so did most of my friends. That said, with our middle class gutted, the younger generations I think is rightfully pissed about the state of things. “The Boomers” are a scapegoat, distracting from the forces and people actually to blame.
Totally agree. I’m so tired of every Millennial and Gen Zer blaming their hard life on Boomers. When I graduated from college, we were in the middle of the OPEC induced recession. Factories were closing everywhere, gas prices were rising, interest rates on homes were 13%, inflation was double digits as was unemployment. As a White male I was actually told in an interview that if I was Black, Hispanic or female they could easily get me interviews with any major company, but as a White male my opinions were limited. The country was emerging from a very unpopular war, and we had just gone through Watergate. But you know what we survived. We bitched, but then we took whatever job we could find worked hard, started families, paid off our student loans and eventually bought homes. We often worked two jobs to make ends meet and it was normal for both the husband and wife to work. But most eventually made it to the other side and did all right. We didn’t expect our parents to take care of us. We didn’t look to government to solve our problems. In fact, most understood it was government policies that were causing our problems.
The one failing we did have is we raised a bunch of everyone gets a trophy whiners. Because both parents usually worked, we let the government schools raise our kids. And when we were available, we were too lax and too free with the goodies. Our children grew up with friends not parents. The result of that? Kids who do not particularly like us, blame us for all their problems and expect us to take care of them forever. Now they have kids and they are even worse.
Are there problems in the country that make it hard for younger people to make it on their own, yes. But they are no worse than what I and others in the Bommer generation faced in the 70’s. if they really want to lay blame, place it where it belongs, at the feet of democratic and Rino government policies that gutted American industry, allowed an influx of illegals that take entry level jobs and fill up cheap housing and increased the cost of a reasonable education to a point where most kids have to go into lifelong debt to obtain one. Communism is not the answer, but its siren song of a wonderful life built on the hard work and wealth of others is alluring to those who have nothing or don’t want to do the things necessary to get the things they think they deserve.
The Boomers are slowly dying off. Wonder who the Millennials and Z’s will blame when we’re gone?