I think we can do even better than that. If you're older, you're in a position to mentor, to help the younger folks get jobs, start businesses, and be successful. Their success is the only thing which will enable them to take care of their elders.
When people say the opposite, Like, oh I don’t have to worry about it, Ill be dead, I get hot.
Young people are footing the bill for Medicare, Medicaid, SS, and now they cannot have medical care, or pay ten thousand per year, premiums, and deductibles, or no care pay a fine, while college tuition has soared past inflation, to meet no workforce participation, forget! unemployment cooked numbers.
They cannot get married, can’t start families, and they’re not supposed to practice birth control, and they shouldn’t, but the Catholic Church could address this from the hierarchy instead of pushing for immigration and lecturing on economics, ThIS is a real problem people will find when it bites them.
But only those looking for sainthood will spen the time of day taking care of an elderly mother who dumped them into daycare when they cried all day for the mothers, or the absentee or philandering father, and forget it if there’s an abortion to be learned of of a sibling.
This is a force that will come around. And they will not like this regime, nor anyone who exhibits an attitude of, you kids owe me, and deal with my debt after I’m dead.
Old peple, older people and aunts and uncles, neighbors have much to do to quit whining and realize they have an opportunity to fix this problem looming on the horizon for these kids. They will not be kind to us if we don’t do our jobs and try a whole lot harder.
We will NOT be seen as the greatest generation or any part of it. That is our choice.
But to loathe them is a huge mistake.
It should be voting age 21, draft age 21, volunteer service 18, and quit blaming these victims of Viet Nam era politics for not knowing how to vote.
Baby Boomers grow UP
Fine. They can start by spending time with them. If they volunteer to teach or so, or body the neighbors when they’re sick, drop off a meal and hang around a minute and say hello and find out what goes on, ask coworkers or waitresses what is going on with their kids, visit family on holidays and smile and say hello to a niece and find out her major, and see what the issues are
No need to get involved, just put the remote down pu on som pants and go out and visit. turn down the volume on the game and ask some basic questions, the information will flow at one point
And then see what we are dumping on tense kids
What to do about it will become apparent
Not whining nor saying uh it’s not my problem will start
We are so quick to complain that kids bury their noses in their phones, but we can do what we expect of them. Put it down and talk. They are starved for attention. They crave honesty they loathe hypocrisy the cherish their privacy and value our attention and concern and wisdom. But theyare not a different species