Time magazine=Millennials Are Lazy, Entitled Narcissists Who Still Live With Their Parents

[Demo_Chris]

182. Two can play the generational warfare game.

Only in the case of young people, our indictments are at least rational.

You want entitled narcisists? That would be the Boomers. When viewed as a generation, they were the first in American history that actively set out to leave nothing behind. They inherited the greatest and most prosperous nation in history, burned it to the ground, and then pissed on the smoldering ashes. It was one hell of a party.

Their parents built infrastructure. The greed generation left it to rot then sold it to the highest bidder. Their parents built a manufacturing base that was the envy of the world, and trade and labor laws that created a middle class unmatched in history and a decent opportunity at life for most. Boomers dismantled it, cashed out, and shipped the jobs away. They inherited the worlds largest creditor nation and turned it into the worlds largest debtor nation. They inherited a total national debt smaller than our defense budget is today, a debt measured in billions, and they turned it into a debt now measured in Trillions.

They spent the money on themselves and left the bill and toxic waste to their kids and grandkids.

They were a generation that said, "Give Peace a Chance!" They were ALL about peace and love -- until the day they were too old to serve themselves, then they discovered that war was freaking awesome when it was other people dying. Once they were too old to serve it has been more or less non-stop war ever since. Boomer's LOVE war. It makes them feel tough, it's great for their portfolios, and they are terrified of everything. Everything.

Where their parents fought and bled for social security and pensions, the boomers voted to have that stuff cut. Not their own benefits, they wanted those, but the benefits for their kids. They KNEW they weren't contributing enough to cover all the people in their own generation, they KNEW there weren't enough kids to foot the bill, and they didn't care. They wanted a BMW, so fuck those kids. They did the same thing with their public pensions. They knew the money wasn't there, but actually paying for their own pensions with taxes would have been unthinkable -- give that bill to the kids as well.

The same applies when they voted for NAFTA and the other FTAs. It's not like they weren't warned. They knew exactly what they were voting to do. They didn't care. They saw an opportunity to cash out at the expense of their children and they took it. Fuck the future, burn it to the ground. Wherever you look its the same. Healthcare, education, the environment, it doesn't matter. They don't even care about protecting the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. There is virtually nothing you can point to that this generation of sociopaths hasn't completely fucked up.

They refused to pay for anything. ANYTHING. Taxes were for chumps. Why pay 90% when you can pay 30%. Or 15%. Or better yet, nothing at all. No need to pay for it, just pass the bill off to the kids. Let those lazy punks pay for our party with their McDonalds and Walmart jobs.

And all that might be forgivable if it weren't for the final insult: They insist that everyone treat them as if they accomplished something special and marvelous. Like a two year old on a sugar high who painted the walls of his room with feces, they now demand that everyone praise them and pretend it's art. It's not art, it's shit, and we are going to have to clean it up if we can.

The boomers, the sociopathic generation, will be remembered forever, and future generations will be forgiven for thinking that the BOOM in boomer refers to what they did to the country.