tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post3503522165285076946..comments2024-03-28T11:58:42.109-07:00Comments on Raconteur Report: I Seem To Have Hit A Nerve...Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-80561836435060140822019-01-16T17:07:08.285-08:002019-01-16T17:07:08.285-08:00Born in '67 and I gotta say, boomers seem.... ...Born in '67 and I gotta say, boomers seem.... inordinately defensive over being called out on some of their shit. Makes no difference to me, I'm equally amused when all generations "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE". Wont change how I live my life.lol nohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18335617988091342172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-60929296758273163932019-01-15T16:05:18.379-08:002019-01-15T16:05:18.379-08:00Having worked in higher ed for a few years recentl...Having worked in higher ed for a few years recently, kab's attitude isn't a new thing to me. Thank God he is simply a part of what I'm calling "Generation Outrage". The funny thing is that there are far more kids in that same age cohort that are what us old codgers would like them to be-enterprising and industrious, with a side of responsibility. I just hope the outrage burns out before we can't keep the little geniuses in hand.The Freeholderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09989697995675652792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-57387191358193955712019-01-13T03:19:24.955-08:002019-01-13T03:19:24.955-08:00[ncgreg231Lc2]
Hmm, who to blame for the ills of s...[ncgreg231Lc2]<br />Hmm, who to blame for the ills of society? i.m.h.o.-there are a great many ills in society and thus, plenty of blame to go around. But one factor that i believe to be present in all of them is *selfishness * (in multiple shapes and forms) from the meth junky that needs cash for the next hit, to the ambitious politician desiring ever greater power. I wish i had better info, but i am expecting a big correction of some kind within 20 years... but probably life will continue pretty much as it has since 4000 BC?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-15205487303361695922019-01-13T03:06:08.634-08:002019-01-13T03:06:08.634-08:00[ncgreg231Lc2]
Yes, I am (fearfully) curious to kn...[ncgreg231Lc2]<br />Yes, I am (fearfully) curious to know what a “golden Friday” might be? Is it similar to a “golden shower”? (i know what those are...) since we are talking about generations, i identify as X’er (1973)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-84144795951856364312019-01-12T18:54:04.154-08:002019-01-12T18:54:04.154-08:00What a wonderful & righteous rant! This old &#...What a wonderful & righteous rant! This old '46 boomer thanks you for it.<br /><br />I don't indulge in the generational crap, as others above have said it's the individual, not the generation, that matters. <br /><br />Still, it grates on me that so many supposedly intelligent people- some of whom have passed a lot of pixels in proclaiming their tremendous intelligence, far superior to yours or mine, or so they say- have to blame boomers for all the ills of society. Even those galactic intellects should be able to tell that's BS, just from the smell! Eskymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15947922645001422523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-46940605169593963592019-01-12T14:26:07.720-08:002019-01-12T14:26:07.720-08:00Little long for me to read in one sitting. It went...Little long for me to read in one sitting. It went well with the Weller 12 year old bourbon I was drinking. 9.2/10 rant. Thanks.Benji40https://www.blogger.com/profile/00903991861868038764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-64517012119188266462019-01-12T14:04:13.227-08:002019-01-12T14:04:13.227-08:00Aesop, In the last comment thread, I read that pos...<br />Aesop, In the last comment thread, I read that post by "Kill the boomers" and thought: "What a douchcanoe." I even thought I should post a rant in reply but then decided it would be best to wait a while. I'm glad I did. <br /><br />Nothing I could say came anywhere near to that righteous rejoinder that you posted.<br /><br />I am a boomer, born 1954, right in the middle. I came of age in the early 70's.<br /><br />My parents, (Dad born in the 20's and a WWII veteran, mom born in 1930), were not well off. My dad didn't finish high school and was a truck driver his entire working career.<br /><br />When I got out of high school, my mom wanted me to go to a nearby "Liberal Arts" college which had free tuition if you qualified. (Berea college, in eastern KY if you're interested.) I qualified, but by the end of high school I had had it with school, classrooms, teachers, all of it. So, much to my mothers chagrin, I instead, joined the Navy and subsequently, the submarine service. I then spent the next two years in school; classrooms, teachers - all of it - with the caveat that If I ever cut class, I could - literally - go to jail.<br /><br />I wouldn't trade it for the world. It was one of the finest educations I could have received. I just didn't grok it at the time. I went back to school later in life and got a business degree, but it wasn't anywhere near the education I got in the Navy.<br /><br />And about SS. Let me just say that, like most, I have been paying into that ponzi scheme my entire working career - going on 49 years now. However, I have also been aware since, oh, about 1977 or so, that its days are numbered. It is *not* my entire retirement plan like that goof KTB would like to claim. Frankly, I'm surprised it's lasted this long. But... At the end of this coming May, I am going to retire. I have a pension - which I earned, I have a 401K, I have IRA's and investments, and, son-of-a-gun, I still have SS. And guess what, I intend to collect on it as long as it (or I) last. And if "Kill the boomers" doesn't like it, well, he can just kiss my ass. (...and if he's in earnest about "killing the boomers", then all I can say to that is: "Bring it, asshole!")<br /><br />I'll just end with a repeat of an earlier post - and it goes for everyone, boomers, X's, Y's Z's and, of course, millennials too.<br /><br />Generations don't **DO** anything. Individuals do.<br /><br />Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108430731483801350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-49248497140836758892019-01-12T13:32:37.404-08:002019-01-12T13:32:37.404-08:00I want to add... it was fantastic growing up as an...I want to add... it was fantastic growing up as an Xer. Ok? I loved it. Watch "Stranger Things" to get a idea of my childhood (yes I was a geek). Freedom, early responsibility, GREAT music from every genre, the beginning of computers (we ALL learned BASIC in schools), and as this tiny generation wedged between two huge ones, we made one hell of a noise. No whining, no bullcrap - we have thicker skins than Millennials in general (all of this is general), and we learned growing up that Reagan made things better no matter how much older people around us whined. Nothing like watching the fall of the Berlin wall when you're young - it makes an impression. <br /><br />Things were starting to go sideways in terms of the economy and offshoring and all of that, but we were all too excited to care. To BE THERE at the start of the revolution in computing was something amazing. <br /><br />The 80's were great times for us. Sci-fi heaven, fantasy movie heaven, computing, geekery of all sorts, and like I said, all SORTS of great music. I think I can blame half the troubles nowadays on Skrillex and the like alone. If I want to hear that, I'll just boot up an old modem O.o Then WE entered the music scene and stamped our mark on it. I haven't seen that from either of the next two generations EXCEPT for stuff like Skrillex and rap (which is past its heydey also). We took risks and a lot of us became wealthy because of that - in a time when we were told it was not possible to become wealthy because of this or that economically. The world was our oyster and WE knew it, even if people were complaining about the economy.<br /><br />This country is STILL an oyster, it's that that lot of these younger kids have bought into the doom and gloom and "oh poor me" stuff that we didn't, generally. That's why we have so many people trying to get to America - THEY know there's a pearl in this oyster if they work for it, even if the natives have forgotten that fact. Essentially the natives have gone soft. Let's see.. how'd that work for Rome? Z, luckily, from what I'm seeing, is aware of this fact and are acting accordingly. Red-pilled to the gills. I'm still waiting for them to make some decent music though. <br /><br />https://youtu.be/uOqP3wj2x14 Baldricknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-62585826069028473532019-01-12T11:06:00.617-08:002019-01-12T11:06:00.617-08:00Yep, we are different countries, Aesop. We are far...Yep, we are different countries, Aesop. We are far more (hork, spit) liberal than you Yanks - and to me it would seem the result of that on generational politics is that they are much more bitter and acute up here as a result. Being more liberal - we are probably half a swirl ahead of America down the same crapper. If American kids think they were sold out by their elders (and they were, no doubt about it) - you should see it up here. The seniors don't give a hoot about anyone but themselves, the kids hate them and are hated right back in return. Outside of the wife's church I haven't seen one single healthy functional family in my circle.<br /><br />Disrespecting your elders is contemptable, but so is being derisive of your kids. And I say that, knowing full well that I should probably shut the hell up and practice what I preach. The alternative is for everyone to reject each other, nobody gets what they want.Glen Filthiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03256741311142364722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-17847190826944022372019-01-12T09:49:31.438-08:002019-01-12T09:49:31.438-08:00I am so stealing that captioned doll picture.
...I am so stealing that captioned doll picture. <br /><br />Is there 25% unemployment? You making beer in a bathtub? Picking cotton in the Texas heat? Then shut the fuck up, <b>stick an ice bag on your weeping pussy and go to work</b>. Because I grew up with people that did exactly that. Wisdom to Snotflakes of All Generations:<br /><br /><b>All honest labor is sacred.</b><br /><b>You are special, snowflake. Just like everyone else.</b><br /><b>Turn off the social media. It is not wise.</b><br /><b>Trust wisdom: the application of knowledge and experience to novel situations.</b> <----<i>you don't have this yet, in fact you don't know shit so shut the fuck up around your elders and listen.</i><br /><b>Your peers are idiots.</b><br /><b>Don't quit. Ever. Ever. Ever.</b><br /><b>Don't be a communist.</b><br /><br /><br /><br />Lee Van Queef IInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-3214222707810867752019-01-12T08:46:20.124-08:002019-01-12T08:46:20.124-08:00Hey Brother,
Had to come down here before reaching...Hey Brother,<br />Had to come down here before reaching the conclusion of yet more brilliance. If the flake is all proud of himself for putting money for his child into the ponzi that is the current "market" he demonstrated stupid right there.<br />Buy books and tools if you want a legacy and education for your children<br />Boat GuyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-14137027084265655092019-01-12T08:21:24.049-08:002019-01-12T08:21:24.049-08:00@ADS
I feel ya, man, truly I do.
But at a certain...@ADS<br /><br />I feel ya, man, truly I do.<br />But at a certain point in life, you have to wake up one day, decide you're a grown up, and bloody well act like it.<br /><br />Because nothing else cuts it, and you can't walk around the rest of your life blaming everything on mommy and daddy.<br /><br />Nearly everybody, from every generation, gets a crap hand at some point, or in some way.<br />No one else cares about the excuses.<br />Do the best you can, and leave off the sniveling.<br /><br />And please, understand this cosmic truth:<br /><i>Boomers</i> didn't do that; some fucktwit's parents did.<br />I wasn't raised by the Greatest Generation, I was raised by my parents.<br />Period. Full stop.<br />Your own parents' load is heavy enough without anyone else trying to pile all their malfunctions on 76M other people who had fuck all to do with anybody else's kids.<br /><br />Pretending otherwise is madness, raised in a deep bed of festering horseshit.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-51655012241611116512019-01-12T08:20:45.531-08:002019-01-12T08:20:45.531-08:00I graduated HS in '65, which was an exciting t...I graduated HS in '65, which was an exciting time to be that age. After growing up in "Leave it to Beaver Land" I wanted to see some weird. Somehow, the Yamaha 250 my Dad financed in my 18th Summer had morphed into a Knucklehead chopper by my 21st Summer and I got my wish to see weird. I spent a lot of time in community college while we participated in the alternative social milieu of American V-Twin enthusiasts. In '79 I went to gunsmithing school, and that degree was my in to a career as a Manufacturing Engineering Planner in aerospace. I worked until retirement was a medical necessity. During my (our: my wife of 49 years being my soul mate) working life we had lean times, and learned to cope. We practiced frugality, and when I did get a job that paid well and lead to a career we saved as much as we could. Now we have what we need and no debt other than mortgage.<br /><br />Our son was born right after I graduated from gunsmithing school, and we decided that being our son's mother was my wife's salient pursuit. This resulted in some lean times, but well worth it. When he got old enough she reentered the workforce. Now, in his mid-30s he is a kind and honorable man with a useful trade, no debt, and substantial savings. Community college is where to go for entry into a useful field.<br /><br />My wife's sister got a "studies" degree financed by student loans, expecting to waltz in to a position @ 60-70K/yr. She was disappointed. So was the Master of Fine Arts who worked in the cafeteria @ Boeing.<br /><br />Community college is an affordable path to success. Maybe the MAs working in fast food should get an associate degree and pay off their student loans.<br /><br />_revjen45<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-63381760606076658482019-01-12T06:35:10.447-08:002019-01-12T06:35:10.447-08:00One of two things. KAB was dropped on his head or ...One of two things. KAB was dropped on his head or raised under Dr. Spocks book which he doesn't know what that is. Aesop I miss gunny also. I remember when I first saw him on China Beach. Never missed an episode or movie of anything he was in. Thought of him often especially when attending my nephews graduation in San Diego a few years ago. The only thing negative that day was reading news sitting in the bleachers on the parade grounds about the Marine aviation segments low availability of working aircraft. I was so pissed I posted on Facebook that if my nephew is KIA due to lack of air cover I would be headed to washington myself. No longer on FacebookBear Claw Chris Lapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01190524236686025884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-44796938131924555032019-01-12T06:32:39.643-08:002019-01-12T06:32:39.643-08:00I'm right on the border between gen x and mill...I'm right on the border between gen x and millenial, born in 1986. It's kind of a cool spot to be in, I remember pre internet times as well as the wild west early internet days. I'm not a frother like this other guy but I get mad when baby boomers dump on millenials too.<br /><br />If a dog isn't housebroken, is it his fault or his owners? If a child is spoiled, is it his fault or his parents? If Millenials are so terrible, look at our parents.<br /><br />My parents did a great job raising me, and accordingly I'm much better equipped than most of my fellow millennials to handle the rough spots in life. I don't understand how boomers can dump on millennials for being snowflakes with participation trophies. You did that! Have some compassion.<br /><br />Millenials are fighting against headwinds our parents didn't have: worse schools, the tuition bubble, a vastly devalued dollar, the loss of many good jobs, and domestic competition from imported H1b workers. None of those are strictly new phenomena, but all of them are much much worse in our day than our parents'. Boomers should remember they had many more opportunities and much easier going than us.<br /><br />I get it, life isn't fair. But the vitriol against millenials by boomers makes me seriously irritated. We're doing the best we can with what we've been given to work with and how we were raised.ADShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12108188405628955164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-54536113617859278642019-01-12T05:57:08.934-08:002019-01-12T05:57:08.934-08:00Fleming v. Nestor 1960 Supreme Court ruling should...Fleming v. Nestor 1960 Supreme Court ruling should be a must read for anyone thinking that they will get a S.S. Check in the future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-82992087295909056142019-01-12T05:01:38.470-08:002019-01-12T05:01:38.470-08:00“If you could kick the person in the pants respons...“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”<br />― Theodore Roosevelt <br /><br />Delusion-as you are soaring high above it all with your wings stretched out & feel the wind coursing across your face, it might be time to roll up that car window and concentrate on where you're heading. <br /><br />Everyone's trip is different. Me, I had it with school after 2 terms at a small engineering college, quit, loaded up my Buick and headed out for unexplored territory. I made my first million before I turned 50 and that's not assets v liabilities, that was doughrame in the bank. <br /><br />When I put the medal to the metal that March day in 1970, I had just turned 18 and am truly amazed at a few of my friends' children who are still living at home in their early 20s. It's a sea to shining sea of opportunity out there.<br /><br />Lord, born with the biggest winning lottery ticket in history and people are complaining?<br /><br />Another great rant my friend.MMinWAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03791810228821770464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-55703207417373099932019-01-12T04:35:59.214-08:002019-01-12T04:35:59.214-08:00Simply a 1,000 yard, iron sight "X" ring...Simply a 1,000 yard, iron sight "X" ring shot.<br /><br />Well done, Aesop!DTGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-65868975117547589082019-01-12T04:27:08.836-08:002019-01-12T04:27:08.836-08:00It's not entirely generational though. My pare...It's not entirely generational though. My parents were born as leading edge Boomers. My husband's parents were (and are) Silent Generation, but too young to vote for FDR of course. My Grandfather, the Marine who fought on Guadalcanal, was no fan of FDR and thought SS was a crock (if only others had listened). He had other choice things to say about FDR (court stacking, etc.) but he left us in '80. If anyone says that my Grandfather caused any of this crap though - know that he was NOT alone in HIS generation in NOT loving FDR. He'll also kick your ass on the other side, because being in the Marines for 20 years as an NCO, he would have NO qualms kicking a few snowflake asses in the hereafter. <br /><br />Anyhow, my parents. One was a doctor, the other a PhD at Stanford in A.I. They both earned that. They worked their ASSES off for that. My father was a National Merit Scholar, then ENLISTED in the Marines while on a full-ride scholarship to the Cornell School of Engineering. He served two tours in Vietnam, mostly as a door gunner with SLF Bravo. When he got out it was right back to school while working and getting married and having a kid (me). Essentially my parents didn't do whatever Golden Fridays were (I have no idea what those are) and they didn't do 7.3 hour days. My Dad started his own company (and no he didn't offshore) - that ate up most of his waking hours. 14-15 hour days were the norm. Mum was seeing patients and saving their eyesight. She was also exhausted - Aesop can tell you how exhausting it is to deal with patients, even just in in a clinical setting, let alone in an ER. It is absolutely draining. <br /><br />My father THEN told me, when I was young and was thinking of law school, "If you don't go into STEM don't waste your time going to college, and I'm sure as hell not paying for some degree for you to become just another f.....g lawyer. Pay your own way then." Because my father was not an idiot. <br /><br />My husband's parents told him to learn machining like his father did. He did that because he loved growing up around machines, drafting, all of it, then went on to become a Senior R&D Engineer. I raised my kids to also love learning and home schooled them long before it was "in". A lot of my generation (Gen X) also looked at me funny and gave me some guff for staying home with my kids. I didn't care - my first job was as a parent once the kids appeared. <br /><br />My daughter is doing extremely well - married and operating a small business with her husband. They're both mid 20's and already looking at buying their first home themselves - in California. Not a cheap place. She also graduated high school early and her passion was classical music theory - another thing that is nearly impossible to make money at. She did play with some major city orchestras but her passion is theory, not playing. She falls into the "Millennial" category barely, but she's much more "Z". She's now also an adoring mother of my beautiful grandchild, who is amazing. (Grandma brag had to make it in there! HA!) My son is straight-up "Z". He doesn't hate previous generations (he doesn't pay attention to any of it), he's keeping his nose to the grindstone and learning robotics AND culinary school - yes both. Two passions - both profitable, thank goodness. <br /><br />If we followed the generational patterns, we'd be fairly messed up, but my family has never followed those patterns people are talking about. Making smart decisions is not generational, it's INDIVIDUAL.Baldricknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-67025000311817760982019-01-12T03:52:03.527-08:002019-01-12T03:52:03.527-08:00First of all Glen, just to be clear, we're tal...First of all Glen, just to be clear, we're talking about the Canadian wexperience now, and not the U.S., right?<br />I clarify, because we're neighboring countries, with a lot in common, but we are not interchangeable societies. There's overlap, certainly, but it's not anything like close to all things, and I wouldn't begin to tell somebody in another country, even a neighboring member of the Anglosphere, "the way it is" there, or was, since I have as much experience with that as former president Obozo has with being an actual American in America.<br /><br />Second of all, your daughter listened not to <i>Boomer</i> idiots, but simply idiots. Being Boomers had as much to do with them being idiots as being right- or left-handed does. Nothing about merely being born in the given 20-year span predisposes anyone to being brilliant or stupid, since it would have to apply to the whole generation, or mot of it, to make the generalization anything like accurate, and if I can find one (let alone 75M) counter-examples, it undoes that whole argument.<br /><br />Are there idiot Boomers? Hell yes! We've even elected some of them president here, fer cripes sake.<br />Are there industrious X-ers, Slackers, Millenials? Hell yes! I work with craptons of them. It's one of the few things that gives me any hope for the future at all.<br /><br />But trying to make broad generalizations fails when you try and tar 76M Americans for the sole sin of being born after WWII, and before LBJ was elected president.<br />it simply demonstrates nothing objectively true, except their ages.<br /><br />That's why the very idea is so much codswallop.<br /><br />You want to talk anecdotals and case-by-case stories?<br />Have at it.<br /><br />Stupid, selfish, lazy, idiots have existed in <i>every</i> generation.<br />Some generations get gifted with more of them than sheer demographics might suggest, mainly because society foolishly does things to lessen how much stupid actually hurts.<br /><br />Stupid in 1700 Kentucky or 1850 Texas was a lot more final than stupid in 2018 Kentucky or Texas, for an obvious pair of examples.<br /><br />But trying to blame all the ills of the world on one generation is the rankest lunacy and psychosis, and I won't mollycoddle anyone's delusions that way.<br /><br />Doing exactly that has made most of those psychotics the problem children they are, and until they stop it, they won't get any better, and they won't even know they should try.<br /><br />They wanna be nutbags, that's their problem; but they don't get to force me to agree to their nutbaggery just because it makes them feel better about being losers.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-34835652866408079392019-01-12T03:11:33.462-08:002019-01-12T03:11:33.462-08:00Well again, you are 100% right, Aesop. But so is t...Well again, you are 100% right, Aesop. But so is the snowflake on a lot of things too. <br /><br />I am a leading edge Gen X or a tail end boomer, depending on who defines the terms. My parents were leading edge boomers, and my militant lesbian SJW daughter is a leading edge millennial. All of us seemed to be smack dab between the changing generations.<br /><br />My dad dropped out of school, and got a trade in grade 10. By the time he was 23 he had his first house and two kids. Mom had her high school. Both got high paying jobs as snivel servants, complete with golden Fridays, flex days, 7.3 hour work days and early retirement. They sailed off into the sunset at Freedom 55, and currently live in a 2000 sq.ft. home, they have a motor home, and it’s a safe bet to say “they aren’t hurting for money.” They’ve benefited mightily from all the free shit they voted for themselves back in the 70’s. To hear them tell it, they worked hard and deserve far more. Like most seniors they are selfish and self absorbed. They’ve lived in that bubble of opportunity and entitlement and take it for granted.<br /><br />I was born in ‘64. I barely was able to make the echo of the boom times my parents inherited and bought my first house at the age of 33. I came on the job market in the early 80’s during a deep recession. Permanent jobs and careers were never in my grasp because, even back then, the corporate globalists were tightening their grip on the economy. “Everyone is expendable and replaceable,” my parents lectured. Except them, of course. With a college education, when our economy recovered I got the short end again: the job market was flooding with liberated females and imported vibrants. I literally found myself working for men that couldn’t speak English and/or menstrual power girls with maturity and emotional problems. My retirement party will likely involve a bottle of whiskey, a carton of cigarettes and a Ruger .45, HAR HAR HAR! My parents told me I was a lazy whiner too. It used to make me bitter, but fuck them. I may not be rich, but I have no debts, a small savings, and I’m free. I am thankful and content... or I try to be!<br /><br />My daughter was born in 85. She got participation trophies for showing up, her teachers were far more concerned with her self esteem than her education, and she hit the job market being told to follow her dreams, and the money would follow that. I went nuts trying to tell her the world didn’t work like that but got shouted down by my boomer parents and in laws. So off she went to school, and got a degree in fine arts from a no-name college. When I grumbled about the education scam, I was scolded by my idiot boomer in-laws that all education was good education. Of course, when my daughter failed to launch that was all my fault too. But, even had she gotten a good education and possessed a mature work ethic... a one bedroom apartment goes for $1500.00/month in Hongcouver, and a small decent home will easily run 400K. How are the kids supposed to afford homes and families with bills like that? AND save for rainy days and retirement? She is pissed right off with the world too because all the pretty lies she was told never caught on in the real world. She got to where she is by listening to boomer idiots and heeding their advice.<br /><br />I’ll just wrap this up with one final thought: one of the boys at church said his school offered a basic robotics class for the girls. When he and a few of the other guys wanted to take part, the vinegar drinking cat lady they had for a principal said no - “the boys had their video games”. If you are disgusted with millennials... just wait a bit. When Gen Z grows up they will probably kill us old farts off and grind us up into food paste. More than a few of us will deserve it.Glen Filthiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03256741311142364722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-91555694855518856462019-01-12T00:56:29.880-08:002019-01-12T00:56:29.880-08:00That boomer-basher, conceding he is only a dumb, s...That boomer-basher, conceding he is only a dumb, soft-headed millenial is also a basket case without common sense. He will clean up 'our' mess while keeping the flame of Western Civilization lit. Before he can do that he needs to dispose of a lot of hate. Because no-one needs that kind of candle.<br /><br />I'm wondering like some other people what have his parents done to him? Or did he just escape out of Plato's cave, trying to get his bearings in a foreign world? You never know.<br /><br />"Maybe saddling them with some debt will help these future generations work off some of their damn obesity (William Hamilton).<br /><br />As for the Social Security scam one need look no further as to "Greenspan's Fraud" - how two decades of his policies have undermined the global economy by Ravi Batra.<br /><br />I am a boomer and I am offended. Lol<br /><br />Sssssnowflake<br /><br />www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeK8p0CBwv8<br /><br />for a real boomer<br /><br /><br /><br />MachtNichtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17207171620224357803noreply@blogger.com