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DavidDvorkin

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43. Right, that's how it goes

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #42)

Mon Mar 12, 2018, 09:12 PM

Mar 2018

I see posts online from young people complaining about old parasites on Social Security. It's all more of the same.

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How the baby boomers not millennials screwed America [View all] Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2018 OP

Fuck that noise Zorro Mar 2018 #1

A lot of Baby Boomers abandon the New Deal and Great Society and voted for Reagan chuckstevens Mar 2018 #2

BS. The boomers were/are a divided gneration. There were activists who became Democrats... brush Mar 2018 #32

the transcript doesn't distinguish Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2018 #36

You are correct. You last sentence says it all. brush Mar 2018 #44

rotten ronnie installed by boomers Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2018 #5

All this talk of generations, where's WAVES? Hortensis Mar 2018 #19

White midwestern men and their wives- both boomers and the greatest generation. Not women and POC at bettyellen Mar 2018 #29

I'm ashamed to say that many of my baby-boomer cohorts SharonAnn Mar 2018 #25

How The People Pitting Millennials Against Baby Boomers Are Screwing America. Iggo Mar 2018 #3

Sounds like Republicans to me BeyondGeography Mar 2018 #4

"The destructive changes in this country have been ideological not generational." Va Lefty Mar 2018 #6

Exactly. Kittycow Mar 2018 #31

kinda cracks me up as a boomer we all worked and paid taxes, had to find a way to beachbum bob Mar 2018 #7

"had to find a way to pay for our own college degrees" shanny Mar 2018 #9

student loans were unheard of 45 and 50 years ago and those I knew who went to college beachbum bob Mar 2018 #11

That's the point. I could work a summer job for KPN Mar 2018 #24

Tuition back then was nothing like it is now. It's increased much Hoyt Mar 2018 #33

My parents paid $3K for my 4 years of college-- dawg day Mar 2018 #16

Boomers had it way easier. liberalmuse Mar 2018 #38

Yeah, boomers had it easy...Kent State, Jackson State, Selma, Detroit, dying in Vietnam... brush Mar 2018 #45

It was the Greatest Generation that led the transformation in the 70s and 80s shanny Mar 2018 #8

Very important points. Thanks for bringing some actual analysis to this conversation. enough Mar 2018 #15

Any other GenXers out there feeling squeezed between two behemoths?? malchickiwick Mar 2018 #10

Lol...yep Docreed2003 Mar 2018 #37

How myopic, to lay blame on a "generation". . . Journeyman Mar 2018 #12

a chart of hope Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2018 #14

Great post! So agree with the reality of stumbling progress. Hortensis Mar 2018 #17

Let's talk in 40 years -- well, I won't be here then, but- dawg day Mar 2018 #13

Thank you, Dawg Day. Another great perspective post. Hortensis Mar 2018 #18

And yet, it was our parents (not us boomers) who fixed these things. SharonAnn Mar 2018 #26

millenia ls don't wait for their selective service lottery number DBoon Mar 2018 #28

there's something to this, at least for the rich yurbud Mar 2018 #20

it needs to be way more targeted Skittles Mar 2018 #22

yes. There is a zeitgeist for different periods, but not everyone is part of it yurbud Mar 2018 #23

so sick of this crap Skittles Mar 2018 #21

so the problem isn't a greedy sociopaths ruling class DBoon Mar 2018 #27

Fuck that shit ... GeorgeGist Mar 2018 #30

Thank you for helping the "divide and conquer" strategy. DavidDvorkin Mar 2018 #34

it's the Irish Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2018 #42

Right, that's how it goes DavidDvorkin Mar 2018 #43

As a boomer... liberalmuse Mar 2018 #35

LOL Skittles Mar 2018 #41

If this shithead Bruce Gibney (yes, I'm channeling DT's behavior) raccoon Mar 2018 #39

We have a white problem, not a generational problem because... Hassler Mar 2018 #40