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When the Baby Boomers started selecting the President, the national debt was $902 billion.
Since then they've stolen almost $22 trillion from the succeeding generations.
Now they sit around and complain about how the next generations want everything for free.
Since then they've stolen almost $22 trillion from the succeeding generations.
Now they sit around and complain about how the next generations want everything for free.
And it's not like they've made living any easier.
The relative cost of a home is up over 100 percent adjusted for inflation.
The relative cost of a bachelor's degree has doubled.
Meanwhile, real wages have only gone up 10 percent. Because "trickle down."
The relative cost of a home is up over 100 percent adjusted for inflation.
The relative cost of a bachelor's degree has doubled.
Meanwhile, real wages have only gone up 10 percent. Because "trickle down."
The Boomers have had America at war almost their entire adult lives. We've only had two years where we weren't at war (1997 and 2000) since Reagan.
Guess who's paying for those wars? Not the boomers. They put it on the next generations' dimes.
Guess who's paying for those wars? Not the boomers. They put it on the next generations' dimes.
And they've managed to pillage the planet and leave it so that it might not even be able to sustain civilization as we know it in two generations.
But those millennial whiners want everything for free.
But those millennial whiners want everything for free.
Seriously, Trump is the embodiment of the Boomer generation. Selfish, utterly without regard for anything beyond his own self-interest, and completely oblivious to how everything came to him for free, all while whining incessantly about how he's the real victim in all this.
Which is all to say, if I see one more "Oh they gotcha with the Monopoly Game" meme (as though the real game isn't all the evidence of the failings capitalism), I'm gonna snap.
Also, Monopoly shows how evil unregulated capitalism really is. The "winner" has literally everything while everyone else is broke and homeless. That's their perfect society.
And one other note. I don't intend to call out every individual boomer, just the ones whose votes put us in this mess.
And since someone asked, I think others might want it to. Here are the source articles.
On the debt by year: thebalance.com/national-debt-…
On the debt by year: thebalance.com/national-debt-…
On the cost of tuition and the rise in real income. forbes.com/sites/camiloma…
