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customerserviceguy

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61. True

Thu Sep 19, 2019, 07:00 PM

Sep 2019

but we've been paying it for thirty years plus. And your generation will be paying more, that's the thing with a hand-to-mouth system. From the beginning of Social Security to that early 80's tax reform, politicians gave away benefits for votes.

I just bristle when I read about how the baby boomers are "fleecing" the system. I should have been more accurate, thanks for the correction.

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Why baby boomers' grandchildren will hate them [View all] progressoid Sep 2019 OP

todays youths drive cars, use energy guzzling electronics, eat dead animals msongs Sep 2019 #1

Which shows they don't actually give a shit about climate change. Kaleva Sep 2019 #11

Didn't you use your laptop or your phone to type that post? BlueStater Sep 2019 #19

Energy use isn't bad in and of itself, quibbler. maxsolomon Sep 2019 #30

The abolitionist, women's right to vote, civil rights, and anti-war movements were grassroots Kaleva Sep 2019 #40

What's your point? MSongs is saying kids are hypocrites for eating meat and charging their phones. maxsolomon Sep 2019 #42

Your comment: "ACC requires structural change that can only come from govt leadership. " Kaleva Sep 2019 #49

Electricity providers have monopolies. maxsolomon Sep 2019 #57

Back in 2013, my monthly budget for electicity was $39 a month Kaleva Sep 2019 #58

You certainly know a lot about history. Act_of_Reparation Sep 2019 #62

Exactly. This is a somewhat naive and silly post that can be argued ineffectively about any... brush Sep 2019 #41

Today's youth are more likely than boomers to live in cities and take mass transit. Blue_true Sep 2019 #48

Well it's good the animals aren't alive while they're being eaten n/t lordsummerisle Sep 2019 #53

I am not a Boomer but the headline to this article is so virgogal Sep 2019 #2

Thanks, I agree. whathehell Sep 2019 #27

Well, then... Newest Reality Sep 2019 #3

thanks, saved me the trouble of writing the same response. Triloon Sep 2019 #9

Cool! Newest Reality Sep 2019 #15

Boomers created the modern environmental movement in the 60s and 70s DBoon Sep 2019 #18

Yeah what Newest Reality said Thanks. nt PufPuf23 Sep 2019 #35

The world as it exists... Act_of_Reparation Sep 2019 #63

Generational bashing is wrong. It's the greedy people in any generation and unfettered capitalism LisaM Sep 2019 #4

Mine know who I am and, since they're neither mean nor stupid, Hortensis Sep 2019 #5

Young people know that the chance to stop ACC has largely passed. maxsolomon Sep 2019 #43

That's not the message of the OP. It's a grave insult Hortensis Sep 2019 #46

This. sheshe2 Sep 2019 #51

Quite a tantrum Skidmore Sep 2019 #6

Pfffft. (The above posters stated well how I view this WAPO article) Guilded Lilly Sep 2019 #7

I'm a far left Democrat and radical environmentalist so maybe not... hunter Sep 2019 #8

I expect this OP to be lit up due to so many Boomers around these parts, but the Boomer legacy Celerity Sep 2019 #10

Your indictment applies equally to all generations. LanternWaste Sep 2019 #12

the generations who are coming after the boomers (especially the ones not in the US) Celerity Sep 2019 #16

I don't hate my grandparents The_jackalope Sep 2019 #13

I'm a generation before you and have a much more hopeful attitude towards the future. virgogal Sep 2019 #24

Good luck! nt The_jackalope Sep 2019 #25

By this reasoning our Grandchildren will hate us too... Thyla Sep 2019 #14

More divide & conquer BS, while the 1% siphon off our treasury & raid our future. -nt CrispyQ Sep 2019 #17

Think I might leave my grandkids a letter. ooky Sep 2019 #20

They might also hate their parents ... GeorgeGist Sep 2019 #21

So, 55% voted for Asshole? maxsolomon Sep 2019 #31

Yes, X-ers, Millennials, and Gen Y didn't show up to save you from yourself. Act_of_Reparation Sep 2019 #64

So, fossil fuels and clean cutting forests have only been sinkingfeeling Sep 2019 #22

As a GenX, you know the generation everyone keeps forgetting.. Lady Freedom Returns Sep 2019 #23

GenX doesn't have power to effect change. maxsolomon Sep 2019 #33

Sorry, but Rex and the Kochs are not boomers randr Sep 2019 #37

"and the generation before them" maxsolomon Sep 2019 #44

Still, we were the ones with first warnings. Lady Freedom Returns Sep 2019 #38

All generations pretty much despise all previous generations. lunatica Sep 2019 #26

It's not a good idea to paint with such a broad brush TheRealNorth Sep 2019 #28

so you'll do it anyway, then. maxsolomon Sep 2019 #45

Proud to be a boomer Cartoonist Sep 2019 #29

I agree ... We have dropped the ball. scarytomcat Sep 2019 #32

"if your children figured out how lame you really are, they'd murder you in your sleep" DBoon Sep 2019 #34

They are giving their coddling genx parents a pass randr Sep 2019 #36

It is the baby boomer generation that brought us the environmental movement on a wide scale. emmaverybo Sep 2019 #39

I am a middle-late babyboomer. Blue_true Sep 2019 #47

Uh, the Baby Boomers who supposedly "fleeced" customerserviceguy Sep 2019 #50

You may not be aware of this Mariana Sep 2019 #54

Yes, yes they will customerserviceguy Sep 2019 #56

Then, please don't talk like only Boomers had to pay the higher tax. Mariana Sep 2019 #60

True customerserviceguy Sep 2019 #61

"The Greatest Generation..." NOT remembered with reverence universally- dawg day Sep 2019 #52

they never experienced normal weather. ever. pansypoo53219 Sep 2019 #55

When you're running on pure rage, facts won't matter NickB79 Sep 2019 #59