[weegee]

My generation didn’t have peace love dope. We had an AIDS scare that put a big chill on promiscuity.

We also faced a glass ceiling as old fart baby boomers were afraid of the seeing the next generation move up.

It’s gotten better now in the workplace that I am 40 but at 28 there was resentment.

I still don’t have a home (renting an apartment for too long) and with inflated property values thanks to a national trend of flipping land tearing down and building crappy $250,000 townhomes (that yuppies are now defaulting on) there is little to “buy” in the market unless I want to live a meth cooking low rent neighborhood.

Yep. I got left with a lot of gravy.

[eyedigress]

Fair Enough. It was was your little “adoption” remark that got me. Everyone has paid in and the retirees now have paid for 45 years. The system needs to go into Wall Street as the President proposed earlier. Dems refused because that would tie America indelibly to Capitalism.

[HerrBlucher]

Yep. I got left with a lot of gravy.

Boomers had to deal with inflated home prices too as the prices soared in the 70's and 80's when boomers started buying homes. They also had to deal with jimmah's 12 to 15% interest rates.....YIKES! Home prices have gone way down recently and will go down further. It will be time to buy for first timers in about a year.