[altsehastiin]

I don’t blame the Boomers for being the last generation to do better than their parents, but I do blame them for being so sanctimonious about it.

The Boomers are an entire generation of people born on 3rd base who think they hit a triple.

[Resolute Conservative]

I hit a home run but got sent back to first to make it fair for the losers batting behind me.

[notdownwidems]

The Boomers are an entire generation of people born on 3rd base who think they hit a triple.

I think you might be surprised how many of us boomers (born late 1957) grew up with very little; through the fruits of our own labors and NOT government handouts, we face a semi-comfortable retirement...until the next federal government-caused 'recession' wipes out another $100 trillion or so!

[Kriggerel]

Couldn’t have said it better, myself.

[RinaseaofDs]

I don’t call them the Boomers.

I call them the Locusts.

[Paladin2]

Boomers were the last ones to grow up in a society that expected personal responsibility and encouraged getting a real education based on one's innate ability and drive.

Among other societal characteristics that supported wealth creation.

[riverdawg]

“The Boomers are an entire generation of people born on 3rd base who think they hit a triple”

That may be true of your Boomer acquaintances, but not of me or most of the Boomers I grew up with. Most of my friends, all of my first cousins, and I were brought up in lower middle class families and were first generation college graduates. A college education, debt free, at a state university was affordable back then, even for kids from modest backgrounds. My parents worked hard to provide what we had, and I am grateful to them for that, but it was definitely not a third-base upbringing. From them, I learned the value of hard work, education, and thrift. As a result, I expect to retire in the next two years at a comfort level that would be almost unimaginable to them. If that's being sanctimonious, so be it.

[SVTCobra03]

The Boomers are an entire generation of people born on 3rd base who think they hit a triple.

This Baby Boomer has a lot of Marine brothers on the Wall and we never thought we hit a triple. I would say more but I would get banned.