Originally Posted by
junior.VH-LFA
Young people have been consistently dealt a **** hand by a generation that profited enormously off of the labour and sacrifice of the greatest generation in a massive economic boom. You have left young people with a housing market they can't buy into, education expenses that you had paid for and a climate on the brink. I'm not sure why you're surprised that when they get handed this **** sandwich of a deficit that they'd question whether it's been worth it when they'll be paying it off for you for the rest of their workings lives. Boomers are sacrificing nothing and gaining everything, at the expense of everyone else and then getting pissed off at being questioned over it.
There seems to be a ongoing effort in some media/political circles to blame ‘boomers’ for pretty much everything wrong with the world.
The notion of finding something or someone to blame for all your troubles is of course seductive to the young, especially if it’s their parent’s generation.
Simplistic and intellectually lazy it may be, but there’s no doubt ‘old white guys’ are the new bad guys.
Apparently, before the boomers came along, young people just had it made.