Baby boomers Ruined America: Why Blaming Millennials is Misguided — and Annoying

[tabbycat31]

36. I'm a borderline millennial

And the thing that irks me the most about the boomers is that they don't understand the world they left us. Sure, in your day you could pay for college with a part-time job in the summer waiting tables. We get that. Whooptie Doo. But they don't understand that if their children tried to pay for college waiting tables that it's just not possible anymore (given the wages of servers and the cost of college).

They're also voting to defund programs that benefited them when they needed it (public education when their kids were school age, etc) and then complaining about it. I've talked to many a baby boomer voter at the door and I get "my kids are grown and gone, why should I have to pay school taxes?' (I have yet to talk to a voter over 70 who said this to me). There's now legalized housing discrimination in favor of baby boomers (called 'active adult' or 55+ communities free of those pesky rugrats on your lawn). Things that many boomers took for granted (employee benefits, decent paying jobs, employers training employees, manufacturing in America, pensions, etc) that are not available to the next generation. And I'm not blaming boomers for it 100% as their elders also voted for Reagan (depending on who you ask, the first millennials were infants when Reagan was elected and years away from voting) and jump started this. But there's many a boomer CEO who benefits from this (Mitt Romney). They also think that just because you graduated from college and have 'that piece of paper' that it is an automatic ticket to prosperity. I guess they have not met the barista with an engineering degree. And they wonder why we're not buying houses when many have mortgage size student loan debt.

Are there some good boomers? Absolutely. But the same generation that gave us Elizabeth Warren gave us George W. Bush. And maybe it's my area but the ones I know and have talked to are more of the Bush type.

Yet there's all these boomers that complain that millennials are entitled because we use phones that don't plug into a wall.

I'm the child of boomers, many of the things I've mentioned above have come straight out of the mouths of my parents or their friends.