[bigbob]

I’d say a bigger factor is all the economic destruction that has occurred under Obama and in the recession that preceeded him. There are many factors to blame for that, but the responsibility for doubling the national debt happened on one man’s watch.

But if you listen to some of the idiots on FR you’ll be told it’s all the Boomers fault. But guess what, the Boomers were savers, the Gen-X crowd that spawned these Millennials is what Obama is of.

[WilliamCooper1]

“But if you listen to some of the idiots on FR you’ll be told it’s all the Boomers fault. But guess what, the Boomers were savers, the Gen-X crowd that spawned these Millennials is what Obama is of.”

I hate to tell you this, but the boomers voted for, and benefited from every socialist program under the sun. Now, they are going to lecture me about how I need to pull myself up by my bootstraps and compete with Chinese slave labor? It’s laughable. I guess as long as I keep funding your medicare (recreational trips to the Dr five times a week) and social security (gambling money at the Indian casino) everything is ok, right?

[Chipper]

Very few of the Millenials are spawned from Gen X.

[fr_freak]

But if you listen to some of the idiots on FR you’ll be told it’s all the Boomers fault. But guess what, the Boomers were savers, the Gen-X crowd that spawned these Millennials is what Obama is of.

Inter-generational fingerpointing is useless. It is the increasing drag of socialist policies that is killing both the economy and the culture of ingenuity and hard work that created it. The Boomers may have been savers as individuals, but as a generation, they supported the policies that we now have. Even worse, quite frankly, were their parents, who having fought overseas against national socialism in their youth, then supported it at home (without the nationalism). Plenty of Gen X have values that are askew because they grew up taking government-as-nanny for granted, and the millenials are even worse, because they DEMAND government-as-nanny and they're largely a bunch of limp-wristed, uptalking nancy boys (excepted are military, farmers and rednecks, among some others) and vapid social-media-abusing tattooed whores (excepted are...uh...er...Mormon girls?).

Each generation, as a whole, has allowed the rot to continue and sometimes even embraced it, so we are where we are. I personally despise, with an unholy passion, the hippies from the sixties, but the truth is they aren't the only ones responsible for this mess.

[CodeToad]

” But guess what, the Boomers were savers”

No, they are not. The numbers say otherwise. Very few have saved anything for their impending retirement. Very few.