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In reply to the discussion: It seems like there's a lot of dislike and contempt for "boomers" from "millennials" [View all]Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)There is this huge group of people.
They consumed their fare share and more, while not paying for it.
They were educated for almost free at the university level, while today students are expected to incur huge debts to subsidize crazily inflated academic salaries. Positions which are dominated by never retiring boomers.
This generation took advantage of all the benefits of free trade and has only recently begun to wonder if it was a bad idea. But they are too occupied now in their later years with healthcare and retirement that they don't give a shit or a penny to improve the economy for others. The issues of the day are not looking towards the future, but to the present as the boomers have always lived (one of the reasons retirement is a "crisis" .
Encouraged and abetted a dominant military and unending war. The boomers never demanded a peace dividend, seduced with the promise of supremacy on the world stage. boomer leadership has brought us an arrogant aggressive foreign policy, one which embraces the boomer mantra of free trade.