(06-23-2019 08:28 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote: (06-22-2019 02:17 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote: (06-22-2019 02:00 PM)swagsurfer11 Wrote: (06-22-2019 01:52 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote: (06-22-2019 01:25 PM)swagsurfer11 Wrote: I understood everything that he said, I just don't need that kind of negativity in my life and you shouldn't either.
I know I know, reality bites and you youngsters have been ill prepared by your parents or even by society to face cold hard truths. They're just so hurtful.
You boomers will never get it. Carry on with your destruction.
LOL, what a cop out. Nice way to remove your own self from any blame at all I guess.
Here, maybe you'll surprise me with a well thought out response to this question: What is it exactly that you think baby boomers are responsible for destroying. Please don't list your opinion on it but provide facts and stats to bear out your assertions. Keep in mind that yours isn't the first generation, not by a long shot, who tried to blame their predecessors for present day issues, which completely ignores any history beyond the generation immediately before your own. It's short sighted and reactionary.
You guys are the ultimate "me me me" generation. You basically broke everything that your parents handed down to you. Social Security, broken. Roads, broken. Airports, broken. Schools, broken. Politics, broken. Since you decided not to invest in the future, were you at least able to save our country a little money? Nope. Debts and deficits are out of control.
You got put on 2nd and 3rd base with no outs and managed to get into a triple play without scoring. Thanks.
You must have taken naps during history. Roosevelt started a federally mandated savings program which could not be touched by government. LBJ breaks the bank on social security to pay for the Great Society program. LBJ was not a Boomer. As LBJ and then Nixon (neither of which were Boomers) spent us from 205 million in national debt into the 10's of Billions for the Viet Nam war it was Boomers getting their butts shot off by the VC while it was those born in the 20's that were being lobbied to spend us into oblivion. The lack of Federal funds coupled with corporate favors and tax breaks at the state level in hopes of attracting jobs led to a decline in revenue at the state level for the upkeep of bridges and roads, and again it was not a Boomer problem. Airports somehow got put on the backs of municipalities but they are corporately owned and provide necessities for corporate aviation firms. This situation also grew out of the 50's and 60's and was not a Boomer issue.
What Boomers did was inherit a world run by corporations, a world where family businesses thanks to lobbied for perks and tax breaks for powerful corporations placed family businesses at a 13 point disadvantage before they could open their doors for business in the mornings (50% cut on local property taxes and the state portion of sales tax advantage that local merchants paid for entirely).
And meanwhile the conglomerates that backed the FED lobbied for more and more spending for goods from their corporations at the expense of the American taxpayer and since the FED is merely one bank of an international banking system where the value of the dollar is subject to rise and fall against other currencies instead of being self contained as it was until roughly '63 and then you find the cost of everything goes up and up and it's inflation that has driven the relative cost of living to levels where the middle middle class has a tough time keeping up.
Boomers were the excuse for inflation but it was FED policy that drove it and drove it for profit, the profit of their backers from sold merchandise, the profit of the FED from interest, and the profit from exchange between their banks.
It's like the Southern Company (Gulf Power, Alabama Power, Georgia Power) selling excess energy between states and having the consumer of those states pay an exchange rate premium for their internal transactions.
What I find disgusting and ill informed about your position is that you don't know any of this. Partly because tagging Boomers was an easy out. Boomers have created issues for us, but not these. Most of these were created when the FED took over the banking system rather than merely being a part of it and none of that was the doing of Boomers.
I've lived long enough to see the death of private business at the hands of major corporations who didn't win because of efficiency or purchasing power, or a better product, but who won because they had enough cash to bribe Congress for perks and benefits that nobody else could have. That's not capitalism. That's graft.
So infrastructure, your state tax base, the local tax base (once wholly supported by local business), and inflation are all the spawn of the rise of the major corporations' power and that of the FED they back. Crony Capitalism is what it was called way back when. It is what Ike warned us about in his farewell remarks. And the devastation it has wrought upon the American Dream is unfathomable for the average ill informed American. And absolutely none of that was the fault of Boomers and was set in place before Boomers were old enough to hold office.
The fault of the Boomers is that they accepted this way of life handed them by their parents and did nothing to correct it. If your generation will correct it you need first to identify the real enemy and it's not the Boomers, but rather the corporate elite who through privilege and their animal the Federal Reserve have saddled you with the burden you feel and the broken infrastructure that no longer has funding at the state level to find repair because those funds have been sold to the highest bidder.
As for a baseball analogy the Boomers were called upon for relief in the bottom of the 8th trailing 20 Billion to nothing. Now you guys are up and it's 20 Trillion to nothing and your generation sucks at competitive sports so no my vibes aren't positive at all!
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