Boomers Dine Out While Millennials Cut Back

[Demo_Chris]

46. REALITY: the wealth inequality is largely based on age

I understand that this in an uncofortable truth, and no one wants to talk about it, but there it is.

Nor should this be any surprise.

Boomers spent their working lives in a nation with unions and without free trade. Once they started reaching retirement age and no longer needed those jobs themselves (or had seniority) they supported NAFTA and the outsourcing of our jobs. NAFTA was fantastic for their union earned stock options and pensions. And it's not like they didn't know what they were doing, they just didn't care.

The same holds true in almost any area you care to look.

Take WAR for example. When enough of the boomer generation started reaching voting age the Vietnam war ended. Boomers were not into war. War was definately NOT COOL. And war remained uncool until the mass of boomers reached the age in which they were no longer young enough to serve in combat themselves. The older they got the more war they demanded, so much so that this "peace and love" generation has now presided over the longest wars in our nation's history. We're spending about 600 BILLION a year on our war machine, none of it paid for, and none of it supported by the younger people being asked to fight.

Peace and Love my ass.

And so it goes. They have no problem with cuts to Social Security or increasing the retirement age, no problem at all. Or, rather, no problem so long as those cuts didn't impact them. So long as it was only future generations that would pay the price they called it "saving social security." Infrastructure? They never saw any need to pass it along in working condition. Taxing the wealthy? Hell no! Not on their watch, not when they were the wealthy being taxed. Cut that shit and cut it now! Hell, they even think Obamacare is swell.

And so it goes.

But what can you do? I am pretty sure they still outnumber every other generation combined, and they have all the money. All we can do is wait it out.