To the older members of DU

[SheilaT]

13. We Boomers are not the problem.

Probably the chief problem is military spending. And all the off-budget or so-called black budget spending. Vastly reduce the military spending and eliminate the black budget stuff and things would be much better.

Every time someone trying to take away any part of the social net goes on and on piously about families who balance their budgets, ask them what family allows someone to spend as much as they want without ever having to account for it?

And I'm beginning to be not quite so sure that Boomers are hanging on to their jobs in such great numbers. Six months ago I would have told you I'd keep on working another three or four years at least, and two months ago I decided I could afford to retire and so I did. I have any number of similarly aged friends who have done exactly that.

If there are not jobs for younger people it's more because corporations are determined not to hire, to try to get as many employees as possible to work off the clock, do what they used to hire two or three workers for, and not care how burned out anyone gets.

We also need laws that have teeth in them to reduce how much those at the top get paid, not try to incite inter-generational warfare.