It's okay if you want to call me a Boomer. I've paid my dues.

[plimsoll]

38. Obama and I are sort of dubious boomers.

When GenX first got made up the "rule" was "If you can't remember Kennedy being assassinated you're GenX," that was from the Boomers as exclusion because GenX where the whiny young people then. Then the millennials came along and redefined us as Boomers so they could blame more people. As a cohort Obama and I fit in with a group between '60 to '67, we got to watch the GOP dismantle the New Deal higher education, the Great society. To some extent that cohort also feels a bit if pique at the '45 to '59 age group. Pretty much the second they graduated their parents started cutting every social program they could find.

It's all fundamentally BS to pit one group against another. The younger people are right to complain about SS and Medicare, if they worry more about the wrongs the "boomers" have done instead of trying to fix the damage the Oligarchs have done they won't see a penny of that money. On the other hand they won't have payed in their entire lives either.