Sometimes, those who blame the Boomers forget...

[JustAnotherGen]

24. I'm not a boomer

And I don't blame them for anything.

They were and are a sucker punched generation.

Work hard, mind your p's and q's, do the right things - and you will reap great rewards. But that didn't happen. And now we are sitting on a tinder box of folks whose homes are underwater, don't have pensions/life savings, through no fault of their own watched good jobs go away, etc etc

Another Billy Joel song says it better - Allentown:

Every child has apretty good shot, to get at least as far as his old man got, but something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our place.

Sucker punched. And anyone of my gen x peers ought to be ashamed of themselves if they focus their energy on perceived assery on the part of the non-elite in the Boomer generation. Our sole focus needs to be making sure these folks - our parents - have a roof over their head, clothing, food, medicine, electric and gas.

They are going to need our help. Maybe it's because I'm black and a woman - but for the doors they smashed open for me with a battering ram - I owe them that much. America is not perfect. We aren't the greates nation eveeeeer.

But we can be if we make sure these people who are approaching their senior years are taken care if. I'm not kicking the boomers when they are down.