1. Boomers are whining about the phrase "Ok boomer." As a boomer, I say "Ok, my fellow boomers." We screwed up their lives. We did it so we could dine out on their future wealth. We knew it. And if you say "Not me!" youre showing the narcissism that led us here. So, the stats...
2...we had to keep increasing spending and cutting taxes. The GOP always wanted to cut taxes, dems always wanted more spending. And we could only do both because we could borrow, borrow, borrow, loading ourselves up with debt that the younger generations will have to pay... 
3...we knew what was happening with climate change. But we did nothing. GOP guilt, of course. If you voted for Nader rather than the man dedicated to fighting climate change, you did a twofer: Knocked the guy out who'd address this, put the guy in who dropped the Kyoto Accords...
4....the wreckage from climate change will be catastrophic. And we did that. We did it even though we knew. The GOP is guilty. The protest voters are guilty. The non-voters are guilty. If you say, "Not me" you are proving the narcissism that got here. If your first thought on...
5...seeing a person dying from a car accident is to say "I didn't do it" you are a narcissistic child. And that's us.
Oh, but kids could get educated to fight this for themselves, right? Except, for profits, we drove up college costs beyond reason. (Chart in constant $.....
Oh, but kids could get educated to fight this for themselves, right? Except, for profits, we drove up college costs beyond reason. (Chart in constant $.....
6...so to get that college education, kids had to borrow and borrow and borrow. From who? From us! We are the ones who set up this system. And they are the ones carrying this insane debt that governs their lives...
6...now, not every chart shows a massive increase of horrors. No, there are some that are pretty flat. You know why? Because those show the money we were willing yo SPEND on our kids futures. Here is pre-college expenditures, per student constant dollars....
7...& of course, now that we piled trillions of dollars on them in government debt, forced them to either ditch college or borrow trillions cause we ran up costs, gave them a climate they must fix or watch their world wrecked, at least they can use their higher paychecks. Nope...
8...the only median going up? rich people. Everyone else? Flat. Whether dem or GOP in office.
So if you whine and cry that they are saying "Ok, boomer" rather than putting our heads on pikes, all I have to say is, "Go fuck yourselves, my fellow boomers. You're still selfish."
So if you whine and cry that they are saying "Ok, boomer" rather than putting our heads on pikes, all I have to say is, "Go fuck yourselves, my fellow boomers. You're still selfish."
And by the way, we knew what was coming - at least as far as government finance - as far back as 1986.
