I on the other hand am an Xer who is still paying off student loans and paid my own down payment on my house. Same story for most if not all of my friends. I've had jobs since I was 11 years old to pay for my own gas money, my own music lessons, and my own trips.
This is after watching my sister-in-law have to pay for her own darn college because her divorced parents renigged on their promise to pay for hers and after all of us grew up as latchkey kids.
My parents did they best they could with what they had. But that's a load of crap when you people try and paint us as a bunch of lazy slackers.
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Funny, I didn't see any indignant posts from you when 'you people' jump on these boomer-bashing threads....why is that?
No way! We know that you are not slackers!! My wife and I will be 60 in a few months. Like Dubya', we will be the first Boomers to retire (born in 1946). All we want is for you to keep paying into S/S, so we can add that to our pretty fat 401k $$. We just want to retire comfortably. And longevity runs in our families. So we are shooting for age 90, minimum. That means we could be getting S/S income for 25+ years. Maybe your generation should be working second jobs?? Thanks!