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To: Twotone

Baby boomers were taken care of by their parents until the parents died; now they are sending the bills to their children.


15 posted on 02/16/2016 11:30:57 AM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35

“Baby boomers were taken care of by their parents until the parents died; ...”

Source, please. I gladly contributed $1200 per month towards my mother’s assisted-living rent until she died because I didn’t want her to live in a Medicare/Medicaid facility. I know many others my age who did the same. Not all of us children of the so-called Greatest Generation had a large (or any) inheritance. $64,000 is the median amount.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/baby-boomers-inherit-116-trillion-historic-transfer-wealth/story?id=12427504

And many of us boomers are still subsidizing our adult children, so we are often paying out to both generations.


27 posted on 02/16/2016 11:56:47 AM PST by riverdawg
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To: PAR35

What? Supported? You are nuts!
Nobody every supported me after high school!


62 posted on 02/16/2016 1:47:20 PM PST by bill1952 (taxes don't hurt the rich, they keep YOU from becoming rich.)
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