Reply #151: Ya see that right there is a big part of where our animosity comes from [View All]

I think I speak for pretty much all of the x-ers and millenials here when I say that we aren't angry at the DU Boomers... but we're all sick and tired of hearing about how great the Boomers are. The Boomer generation as a whole left this country worse off than before through sheer greed, gluttony, selfishness, narcissism, and short term thinking.

Boomers drove up the price of housing to buy more crap so we can't afford them. Boomers suppressed wages and killed the unions. Boomers outright worked against the environment. Boomers worked to undermine the school system. Boomers outsourced the jobs that we worked so hard to prepare for. Boomers let the infrastructure fall to crap. Boomers killed the pension plan. Boomers have us paying into SS and Medicare but they won't be around when we are your age. Even after the 70's Boomers refused to build public transportation. Boomers forced us into three wars of aggression. And so on.

And yet every day at work we are talked down to by Boomers, many of whom could retire and open up more jobs for those of us who have little to nothing, but you still hang in there to ensure that you can continue to over-consume to the age of 100.

Every time we turn on the radio or the TV, or go on the internet we have to hear about how great you guys are and how we're the "cynical generation". You know why we're cynical? Because we always have to hear about how great the Boomers are, and ya'll fucked everything up. We are continually told that we're underachievers, but you all have a stranglehold on the workplace. Many of you can't retire because your peers fucked everything up so badly, but I know dozens who simply refuse to get out of the way.

But thank you for the 60 hour work week, and the fact that it now takes two wage earners to survive. Thank you for killing the planet, and thank you for Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix is awesome... seriously thanks for Jimi.