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magical thyme

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9. intergenerational warfare...that's the ticket. NOT. pls don't buy media myths about "baby boomers"
Thu May 1, 2014, 01:27 PM
May 2014

Baby Boomers are no different than any other generation. Some are massive consumers. Others live very frugally. Some are self-centered. Others not so much.

Some saved for retirement and were able to hang on to their savings. Others saved for retirement, but were dumped just as they should have reached their peak earning years and forced to live off their retirement savings because once you hit 50, your done in the current economy.

The massive national debt that you are blaming on boomers is a direct result of Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy and his unfundeded war.

The loss of many jobs stems back to Reagan's policies, and it wasn't Boomers who voted him in, it was the generations ahead of us and one right behind us.


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