Agreed while there are some boomers who understand what's going on rn none are in political roles. And it is extremely hard to find a boomer that is understanding what is going on
@Kate-rv6kx sometimes I wonder if the only reason they are trying to fix the homeless problem rn is because they are worried that the homeless will start sleeping on the golf courses they like or will start staying outside the expensive restaurants they like
The other day, my boomer dad and his friend were talking about how easy our lives are and how we haven't faced real struggles, and to be fair, we're all immigrants, but then I politely retorted with how much of our expenses goes to survival and what our real problems are. My dad's friend listened and changed his tune, saying "he's right, i think he's hit the nail on the head". So I don't know about American-born boomers, but immigrant boomers seem to be willing to understand. They just need us to speak to them in person.
This is something to consider for sure. If they're first generation, being new here wasn't very easy - culture shock, language barrier, and some hostility is not very pleasant.
I think being an immigrant boomer is different, though. There definitely is a lot more struggle tied to the life of an immigrant. For American- born boomers, they don't have much of an excuse in calling us lazy, entitled, and saying we have it so much easier. Too many Americans share the same story of their grand/great grandfathers graduating from highschool and immediately getting a decent job, and carrying on in their twenties with their grandmother staying home to take care of 3 or more children, living in a beautiful and safe house/neighborhood. It has become so difficult to find a decent job, and it's terrible that my generation was told to go into debt to obtain a great paying job, and then it's this hard to find a job paying more than minimum wage? What is going on? Forget all of that- why on earth is it this hard to buy a house now? Our grandparent and great grandparents did not have to go through this. 😊
I can speak on this. One side of family growing up was fresh immigrant, other side all American. Agree on immigrant boomers being more open to hearing you out but they still have alot of the same views/opinions of the younger generations and our struggles at the end of the day. American boomers however… man I had a grandfather who got a massive inheritance, was given 20k a month from his late 20s to his death to do nothing! Man never shut up about how hard they used to work and how this generation just expects all these handouts and who’s gonna pay for these things and blah blah blah. Fox News talk points for days all while enjoying free money from his daddy (who fought in ww2 and then started a successful business) Seriously the boomers are the worst ever. Disgusting vitriol filled generation. They got theirs, the rest of us can eat it.
I am a Boomer. In 1980, when the minimum wage was seven dollars an hour, a studio apartment in Toronto cost $175 a month. The same apartment now is $1800 dollars a month. What I want to know is why isn't the minimum wage seventy dollars an hour in Ontario?
Thank you for understanding basic math, something many boomers don’t understand. I had to sit down with my dad and show him how expensive everything is compared to the median income and median household income.
My boomer mother could not understand why I changed jobs. I got this huge lecture on the importance of company loyalty. She said I was ungrateful for the opportunity. I attempted to explain that if I continued to go into the office every day, security would remove me. I could get arrested for trespassing. The company I was working for went out of business. The owner took all the money and fled the country with his girlfriend.
I worked at a restaurant back in January and the restaurant was a prostitution ring, the owners were trying to coerce and force me into selling my body , they offered me thousands of dollars to go to New Orleans with them , to have a 3sum, when I refused , the bullying started …..people don’t understand how toxic the workplace can be nowadays. This was a restaurant , in a small , quiet, sleepy mountain town .I quit btw 🙄 The stress, was making it to where I could not eat or sleep… so I had to quit! Boomers didn’t have to deal with the toxicity, we do !
lol what?? If your mom could not understand why you left, I think she has more issues than just being a boomer… I was waiting for your story to state that you left because the new job paid you more but instead, it’s because the old boss closed the business out of nowhere and left… how does she not understand lol
I’m shook. Every time I go to the doctor, they ask if I’ve felt like I might be unable to feed myself or my household within the past month. I always say no, because of pride. But I’m realizing now that only eating once a day and paying rent that costs as much as a mortgage isn’t how life is supposed to be.
The boomers had it better tha. Their parents and thsir kids because their selfish greedy scumbags. Their parents would be dissapointed in them and the gen x and millenials and gen z hate them they ruined this country and made our lives hell
It's really just magazine headlines you're fighting with. Not a single person my own age went to use the person-check out, while the boomers did, to make sure I had a job, and almost all the talk was about how hard, not just we have it, but they have it themselves, trying to live in this era with a 1970's SS or pension check. And I live in a dead-center middle class area. I just don't see what you guys see, promoted posts and headlines are not representational.
As a Gen Xer, I'm sick of how Boomers pulled all the ladders up and refused to admit it, and then they refuse to understand the economy today isn't identical to the economy in the 70s.
Um do you not rrmember the government implemented gas shortage in the 70s?? It went by your license plate determined how you got gas. Without gas you cant support your family back then.
Inflation under Biden is what caused our HOT MESS. Trump controlled Inflation to a minimum. A (2.8%) interest rate on my home in early 2020 proves it. Why didn't everyone take advantage of this???
As a later boomer, I have spent my entire adult life watching my paycheck fail to keep up with my costs. Blame the rich who bought the politicians not the generation.
The issue isn’t how boomers are voting it’s more how the younger generation is not voting. Millennials have surpassed boomers by over 2.7 million. However boomers are more reliable about voting.
😂 we are owned by companies and a corrupt caucasians . This is a republic not a democracy. Not everyone has the luxury of free time off of work or the delusion of votes actually doing anything
@@enigmaticallis3110 there isn't much to understand but everlasting greed in all men. Nobody will change that ever but catastrophes which will humble us.
@@scrappydog7741you mean tax and spend conservatives (starting with Reagan). Why don’t you educate yourself before spouting Fox News talking points? Dem presidents ALWAYS fix the messes that Rep presidents make. 🙄
My father inlaw thought an average mortgage payment was less than half of what the average payment is. He is 73, retired and no mortgage. No idea of the cost at all.
I remember a comment I read recently where a girl's boomer mom recently got a divorce and had to find an apartment, and was shocked at current rental prices. Her mom hasn't uttered a word of criticism of the younger generations since.
Many millennials I know in my age group vote dem purely because of social policy, not so much because of economic policy. A lot of them are doing so because they fear the republican social policy that seeks to force many of us into conformity.
@@NeanderthalDogma It helps to vote in local elections. People only show up every two to four years for large elections, then wonder why everything still sucks in their own backyard. Meanwhile, old folks consistently show up to vote for anything and everything they can, and you bet your ass they're only looking out for themselves.
Voting is the guise and gaslighting that the government does to stay in power. Lie to the people and tell them they have a say and control, but do everything behind their backs to get away with all the corruption. American government is CORRUPT af! …and anyone working for them is a f***ing sellout that is part of the problem!
In order to run for any political office, politicians have to raise a certain amount of money. The money comes from corporate donors. The more money the corporations give to "their" politician is what determines who gets voted for. The more money the politicians raises, the more votes he will get. Corporations run this country, and they hand pick the politicians they want in office. The government is the mouth piece, but the corporations are the brains. Corporate America also owns us, and if we can't pay, the corporations will be happy to give us all loans with interest rates they set so we can pay them every dime we have. Ever wonder why the government doesn't step in and stop price gauging? Because they can't. No politician wants to lose funding from their donors.
I'm not even sure who a "Boomer" is anymore as my 26 year old daughter has been called a Boomer by my 11 year old son, BUT as someone who has suffered from job loss, inflation, lack of funds so on, and has also had to work at McDonald's at 45 years old and drive Uber Eats to make my mortgage payment, I couldn't agree more with everything this dude says. My kids NEVER have to leave home, because how can they? We're all lucky to even have a house to call home and luckily we got it 10 years ago at 4%. The struggle is real. Keep preaching, brother.
My dad apologized to me over the price of a paint he recommended. He sent the link and was like “oh I’m so sorry, it was much cheaper when I bought it 20 years ago”
My parents too. They know how hard it is for my kid. My kid, 18, has just moved out, but doesn't have a job, or a bank account. We all worry about her. My family doesn't care if she's not working. We'd like for her to come home, get settled into a stable place. Then look for a job, and open a bank account with the money she makes. This bouncing from one friend to the next is concerning.
You can't do anything and nothing needs to change except your victim mentality. Oh btw, we invented all the technology. Knowing how to use an app doesn't make one technologically gifted. Look at all the people your age who are highly successful. There's plenty of them. What are they doing that you're not? Why are they not crying and you are? You want to solve some problems? Start with yourself.
@@FooFan-b3k 50 years ago you could buy a house on minimum wage. Now you cant even rent a sutdio apartment on min wage. Either post some numbers or shut up. The evidence speaks for itself.
@@aquari_2344 sadly there is nothing anyone can do about these two bozos, I’m certainly not voting for either one of them. Also nothing can be done about their age anyone can run for president at 45 and above. So….have are corporation CEO run for it that’s who is running the country anyway
The 81 year old Boomer. No question. He has 50+ years of solid experience and the world takes him seriously. The other one has a decades long track record of bungling damn near everything he's ever touched. And the entire world laughs at him. He also displays symptoms of multiple language and cognitive disorders.
I'm 42 and to me, it just feels like one giant pissing contest. Everyone's situation is different. I know boomers who are struggling mightily and I know Gen Z'ers who are thriving
The genz who are thriving come from generational wealth and solid financial backing or got famous on social media. Not many of us who come from poor areas get to leave because we don't have the money to.
@catalyst7707 I don't know what I'm considered, as I was born in 1990. So, I guess I'm a millennial. However, my parents are both poor. I worked harder than anyone else in my 20's. Came from no wealth and can pretty much retire if I wanted to at 34. All I know is when all my friends were having fun in their 20's, I was paying off homes. I worked and worked and had no life. Now I can enjoy the rest of my life without financial stress.
Ya, because government officials are going to sacrifice their million dollar pay outs from corporations. Excessive holidays. And top of the line health care. You're not wrong, but people look out for themselves first. And others when it's convenient. Especially when they are in possession of authority and power.
Well most of them are boomers and they are making their money from selling to millenials and Gen z, hints why they complain that these two generations don't buy anything. Boomers will start losing money if this continues and most will go broke before they die
Not true. Born in 1962. I agree with EVERY point made in this video. It's time!!!!!!! Please! amazing techy, educated young people need to be running things. They are the only hope for our world.
@@_QuazarzNo, that is the entire problem. For 200 years the value of the Dollar was relatively stable, then we went off the Gold Standard and that is when inflation kicked in. But somehow the buying power of gold/silver remains the same. Hmmm, what does that tell us?
@@kiltedsasquatch3693 inflation is a problem no shit, but it is absolutely NOT the only factor at play I mean seriously how could you say something so obviously wrong. I mean just to point out a single other factor besides inflation that is hurting the housing situation, companies are buying up mass amount of homes and then renting them out. Because of this they gain market control and squeeze out the locals through higher pricing that they can afford to do since there's no alternatives, they bought them all. It's a major problem and there is legislation trying to be passed to prevent this. And that's just a SINGLE example.
Please do run for elected positions! These 70 & 80 somethings in the govt need new opposition, with fresh ideas to help solve the problems that those senior citizens are unable to wrap their heads around. I’d love to have options of younger candidates to choose from. (I’m a GenXr, at the younger end)
But millennials and gen Z will make the problems worse. Because each generation gets worse and worse with their ethics and financial literacy. It’s not so much a generational problem it’s mostly a moral problem. As in all morality has gone down the toilet. Oh and I am a millennial I know for certain my generation is the beginning of doom for us.
My boomer mom passed away in January. Several years ago, she made apologies to me about some of the things she did in my brother's and my upbringing. One thing my mom always believed in was keeping up with the times and staying informed and updated with current events. It's something I myself, a Gen Xer, strive to do every day. Keep up or stay lost in time, as my mom used to say.
I just started ignoring people who were calling me lazy after explaining to them several times how hard things are now. They need to understand that things are not the way they used to be anymore.
No you many not be lazy but I bet what you call having and needed everyday, my generation called it a luxury. I bet you were 20 before you were on a plane, or I bet you had more then one TV and bathroom in your home or apartment, and that car you drive bet you and wife or husband has one,nope only one for us. And how about that air in you home and car, got them I bet, nope none here.
@@vietnamvet4533 Internet isn't a luxury anymore and I'm not irresponsible with money. Also we only have two tvs in our apartment and we eat mostly at home and with all of that things are still high.
@@pixelgirl843 yeah it's almost as if i blow all my money on shit i don't need and don't put my bills before entertainment. I'm allowed to have things for myself doesn't mean I'm reckless with money. I'm not directing this at you but at the person who assuming how I handle my money. Also I didn't get on plane until I was 25 because I flew back home because I needed somewhere to stay. Oh and also I have developmental disabilities and have to live off wellfare for right now which I HATE DOING but it's hard getting employed when you have no GED and your busting ass to try to better your life so with all disrespect to @vietnamvet4533 piss off.
@@vietnamvet4533 also i don't drive and i live in a crappy one bedroom apartment. When you assume you make an ass out of you and me. Also I walk everywhere unless my girlfriend drives me. I never had a drivers license.
For the people asking what he’s doing about it, well I think he’s doing great even just by informing the public. Having public opinion on your side, even if you’re not a politician, is extremely important. There is not much a single person can do by themselves, but by educating people on what’s going on around us will hopefully get more people to be proactive: act, vote, petition, protest etc. There is power in numbers! Real change can happen if more people became aware of what’s going on and ACT
@@ms.pirate Oh hell, there's no informing going on. Everyone I know and most of us are boomers have known all of this for decades. Are your relatively young friends so clueless about the world around them that they need informing? Sad if so.
Blame it on drop kids at school (daycare) and keep them away from multi-generational situations like early 1900's households, learning to imitate what society is like, and just stick them with other people their age, and you wonder why young adults can't function? My Hs had no shop class, no auto repair, no skills based classes at all, no class explains how taxes work, no classes explaining budgeting, and then people like yourself, "well I have this wealth of knowledge, so why don't you do as I know to do?" Older gens aren't sharing their stories, and then discounting ours, you want respect, we'll respect is earned not given, want to earn respect, tell your story without embellishments, without holding negative aspects of the story, so the moral you use for reasoning can be understood, without it becoming "I did this, skip to the end I was successful, so why aren't YOU working harder lazy kiddo?"
My dad said he was sorry for how poorly he acted while raising me because of the venom my mother whispered in his ear. My mother did the "Im sorry but.." and tried victim blaming woe is me lines, now she's stuck with a child who wont contact and a child who cannot, and sadly my father passed this January.
As a tail end boomer ... please let me apologize you. I do understand the situation and vocalize it to other boomers when I can. Keep up the good work!
If you're a tail end Boomer like me (1960-64), we're not what everyone's thinking of when they hear 'boomer'. We've been called Gen Jones because we got none of the boomer benefits.
I was talking with my boomer father the other day who is well off and collecting social security. He was shocked at how much I pay towards social security and Medicare each month. I understand why boomers want to get back what they paid into social security. But many of them don’t understand how much more the working class is paying into it now. I would much rather it go into an account I have some transparency and control over, and pay a tax on that when I retire to help my fellow elderly that are less fortunate. We all can see how badly the system has been managed by our politicians, yet because the majority of boomers don’t want their funds getting messed with in any way our politicians avoid the topic of fixing it at all costs.
@@wrightcargleMy father is 77. He is sharp, and does a decent job keeping in the loop but he was shocked to hear that I’m paying over $700 a month on those taxes alone. I make pretty decent money, and so did he, but going over that cost and others he understands a little better why my life looks different than his did at my age.
That reminds me: we need to eliminate the income cap on social security withholding. Everyone, especially those that make over $170k/year should be contributing the same percentage of their income into the SS system.
@TheAnnoyingBoss In Danville, Va (for example) you could finagle a 12.5% down payment on an average home value of $115,500 and get in under 15k but with closing costs and everything you're closing in on 18k. But they'll let you finance closing so you could up your monthly payment from $667 to about $800 and swing the under 15k at close on an average home there. There is also Youngstown, Ohio, Fort Wayne, IN , and Hickory, NC to consider.
Here's an X'er telling you I get it. And I'm behind new ideas, prepared to vote along those lines, and help where I can. I'm not alone from my gen so keep spreading the word and doing what you're doing!! I'll do the same... The rules are made by those that show up ✊
Well said. My boomer dad was complaining the other day that he doesn’t get social security. He has a 80% pension and didn’t pay in for all those decades. I pointed out that he only paid 1.5% for the few years he paid into SS. He didn’t believe me. I had to show him the current rate of 6.2% kicked in exactly when I graduated and started working
JFK did an interview with Piers Morgan. Literally one of the very first things he brings up to Piers-why housing in unaffordable-investment firms buying it all up, etc. But people won’t vote for him because of covid. So whatever.
Boomers had the best period of usa and made it into the worst possible future for usa who is now basically in a civil war against everything from the element carbon to cruel and inhumane taxes frees regulations costs. They tolerate hyperinflation the boomers have 500k houses with 800 dollar payment they take a loan on. They dont work to reduce they will work to increase it and then complain this is the boomers voting for joe and whe. Theyre 80 they refuse to sell their 40k house for any less than 1.5m. They set it up so its rigged if I want to buy a motel to try to run it the best so i have the highest quality lowest cost rental in town so its worth it everything is set up to work against me because the banks and landlords depend on putting the minimum humanly possible down payment if one even at all in cricumstances as well so what happens is in 1960 and 70 80 90 that wouldve worked because you put 5k down on a 50k house and in ten years it was worth double yoh could just appriase it every year and oull the extra out and you could pay the bill on tbe original 50k and you wouldnt even need a job anymore for a roof over your head alone at least. So a lot of these people would put 10k down on a 100k house and complain about the interest and then in 20 years they had a 250k house and now its a 500k house and i believe it a lot are nice houses the one im in id pay 500k if i had it its a good house but as for people like me by the time i am buying one its going to be a million 2 million dollae house in the cheapest places the boomers will be dead then for good but people like me will have 538 jobs simoltaneously i will need an army of robots to do it elon musk will die dying banking off me like its a sport and i will still be homeless without a house and no kids because i cant afford food and you all fucked this up and turned us into orwells.1984 because you got addicred to money money than reading books ruined the world and died. Maybe if not now when will we change things to where im not burneded with the national debt of every retard who ever lived. You see even boomers demanding their own childrens childrens childrens national debt be used to pay off gender studies degrees because the boomers promoted college for too long to the wrong people whod have been billionares if they didnt send them to college saying theyd be unemployable if not and plunge them into debt. To "become hirable and proven to be trainable" these boomers are so far behind and gave caused many many of the major problems that have driven humanity to the brink all because thet didnt believe in their kid to be able to fill out the online form and pay 10 dollars to register a business to get an id number for tax purposes and open the quickbooks app and take a picture of their recipts when they buy something for the business. They send them instead into 200k in debt for gender studies degree or something else barely nit really useful comapred to real worl ld expirience to "become hirable proven to be trainable on the job" so now instead theyre actually a huge debt liability to the businesses who see them as looking to the business to be the finanial proof the degree was worth it. My business im doing isnt going to be hiring these people I took math classes and didnt get a degree so I cant be sacrificing my businesses financual security in this orwellian shithole nightmare just so some boomers idiot offspring can have a padded ego about their degrees usefulness when theyre actually so useless they come out of college and the only thing they can do in my business is basic accounting and i dont have a degree and i do the accounting marketing i do the inventory i do the actual nitty gritty business building they dont even have the mental comprehension skills for because they never even tried to start a gumball machine business when they were 18. They struggle to understand the stock market they think teslas are efficient envuormentally friendly affordable and reliable and if they think theyre financing this lifestyle off my business im working for free for my business and I am not funding that lifestyle. If they come to my business i will be running smoother than sewing machines expecting me to pay back their harvard business degree while they do the accounting i can do for free while i do everything else for free then they can have fun begging walmart to pay back their degree or perhaps somd other corporation thats om the edge of bankrupcy because too many communist scumbags have propagandized anticapitalist propaganda enough to plunge us into permanent struggling along with the vast numerous other moronic imbiciles who have taken this precious earth that had prosperity and turned it into a tax robbing civil rights abokisbing slabery promoting shithole nightmare with cruel and inhumane interest rates
My boomer mom, assuming she is representative of the generation, is incredibly stubborn. I was job searching lately and she insisted that if I wasn't going to each business, in person, multiple times a week, I wouldn't get hired. She didn't care that every company tells you explicitly not to do that, she was right and that was that. That's just one example. She is still in a world that, in her mind, hasn't changed since about 1987.
My Silent Gen parents were like that. They had the craziest ideas about how things worked. The fact that not a single shred of information supported their idea was irrelevant, of course, lol. And I was always confused in their world.
Gen Xer here, Why do boomers need to apologize and why do they need to help? Isn't apologizing to "you" about your feelings, and isn't helping you feeding into the Mil and Z stereotypes? who cares if they understand and who cares if they apologize, and don't look to them for help, they are grandparents now, they are in no position to help you.
My boomer parents used to give me the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” talk when I asked for help while working 3 jobs and still requiring assistance from a food bank. Then the economy hit them in the wallet. My mom had to take a call center job to keep up with bills. She called me crying, apologizing for not believing me when I told her how hard it was. When I became disabled, my dad apologized as well. Told me he would keep a roof over my head and food in the fridge without question or expectation. My mom is now home bound with her own medical issues. I help them, they help me. Some boomers have seen reality and are working with their millennial family to survive. My mom has changed her political affiliation to independent and is now in favor of social programs she once despised. Change can happen. Hopefully more will wake up.
@@ms.pirate The internet was originally designed to exchange information. It’s the greatest tool humankind has ever devised. Imagine life before the internet. Before texting. Before a musk rat got his dirty hands on Twitter. We take the Information age for granted.
Thank you. I am a boomer and I see how bad things have become. Imagine working and saving and needing to retire, and all of a sudden, everything you worked for and saved is worth less than half of what it was when you were working. Boomers are the largest age group of people becoming homeless.
There are also a lot of expenses boomers did not have that are actually necessities now. Cell phones, computers, and subscriptions to use them. How does one work without those additional expenses? How do you live in most places without a car that needs gas, oil, licenses, and insurance? All things people starting out decades ago, did not need. I am a boomer and blame corporate greed. Stopped income from corporations by cutting taxes, made single family real eatate an investment so corporations start buying up the inventory and stopped building low-income housing for those who are starting out and those who have less skills all because it is leas profitable. This is why we need regulations, corporations are all about profit and could care leas about the workers or the country. Also, allowing a few corporations to run any aspect of life. Groceries about four corps run about 70%; gas a few corps that set the price. That is not capitalism, it is theft from the consumer all for them to accumulate wealth and continue to buy politicians. Maybe one step would be to take person status away from corporations and go back to when they could not donate to politicians; thank the gop for tax cuts for the wealthy and corps and giving them personhood so their donations as their right to free speech....smdh
Corporations aren't persons, even legally. They are entities, not persons. If you take that status away there will be no control of them at all. The development companies where I live are building modest housing, because that's all we hillbillies can afford. The consumer still controls the market. Things like cars? Well, we've had many car lots dry up and go out of business, because paying new luxury car prices for used cars and/or stripped down new ones wasn't well received here, and we didn't buy cars. The big fancy housing development is sitting there behind its walls, at about a third capacity while the new one with smaller houses is mostly full. Also, if your job requires you to have a certain technology or tool, they have to pay for it, so go see your HR department and make the arrangements.
It's like Boomers are taking the hit for what the corporations and corrupt politicians have done. Tell me what candidate will do something about corporate greed and corruption and I will support that one.
@@TheQueenRulesAll I've got a cell phone, but no computer. (Personal) No need for one with what's basically a computer in my pocket. Even then, it doesn't have to be an extravagant one nor an expensive monthly bill. And there are free cellphone and wifi plans available literally everywhere in the country. I'd also say that people now have less of a need for a vehicle with public transit everywhere, particularly in places with high rents and housing prices, like NY, SanFran, and LA. Outside of those places, if someone needs a car, like I do, again- it doesn't have to be a brand new one with a $1,000+ monthly operating expense. Corporate greed is part of it, but not as much as keeping up with the joneses is. Far too many people with current year iPhones, nice new cars, and new Air Jordans are watching TV on a 75 inch flatscreen while also receiving government assistance. And blame the GOP all you want, but it wasn't conservatives demanding $20+/hour for fast food workers, and it isn't the GOP that has gas prices and grocery bills 150-200% higher than they were 4 years ago.
@@onionbubs386 I didn't define the policies as socialist, I defined the people who write and enact the policies which exacerbate the continual economic collapse as socialists, which it exactly what they claim to be. You don't know how to read, typical intellectually devoid leftist.
@@Here4TheHeckOfIt Alot of them, don't even care about that. They literally don't care about anyone else besides themselves. Boomers are the most selfish generation of all time. They're actually worse than Gen z and Gen Alpha.
Yes!! You explained this perfectly!! I’m 38, and my mother is 62. My mother wants to buy a Mercedes with her house money if it sells. I’m begging her to put something aside for her security should something go wrong, because social security will be gone in ten years and she’s alone. She doesn’t understand she will NEVER get her lifestyle back. The money she will get from this house is NOTHING. It’s a used trailer. It’s not like it’s a paid off brick and mortar. I have a camper in my back yard should she become homeless that she can live in. I’m going to have to take care of her soon
Boomers are delusional. A lot of oldies tryong really hard to get on social security now too as if many people like me vow to never pay into that ram rod scam job ever again.
Good. I want the young people of society to always challenge long-held ideas and try to improve things. Maybe there will be mis-steps along the way, but that's to be expected. We will not live forever. We need them to be ready when we are gone. They need to carve their own path. Did we set them up for success?
I don't know, what I might have done, as a so called boomer, but I am sorry. I'm sorry that my kids and grandkids have to struggle so much. . . I struggled my whole life and still do. Prices are up for everyone. I realize that young people today try as hard as they can, and I absolutely agree that our government needs more younger people in office. I don't understand why the only options for the president are all so old, I would totally vote for a young candidate. I'm sorry for the state of our society, it seems like everyone is mad or offended by everything, all the time. Wondering if that's what those malignant old codgers in Washington and Corporate media are wanting for us to do. . . ❤
You didnt struggle if youre a boomer. Not like us now. The peak of your struggle will be remembered as the bottom of ours. Your parents generation struggles were worse than yours also. You boomers are ungrateful you do very little your words do not speak louder than your liftimes lack of actions
Ill tell you what my father did. Put his multiple marriages before his kids while allowing the schools to raise us. This created a divide in the generations. He also complained, rightly about liberal spending while also supporting unnecessary foreign wars that cost just as much. He and people like him have allowed the country to fall apart by wasting their political capital on making Iraq, etc. happen instead of fighting the creation of all these new federal agencies. One of tye deeper issues i see with the generation, btw is their hedonism. Its subtle, but you replace sex and drugs with television and serial monogamy, they are moatly all hedonistic hippies who only go to church on christmas while fancying themselves the moral arbiters.
Thank you for saying this I had the misfortune of working in a small office with a very small-minded, right-wing boomer. I couldn't go a day without her complaining about something wrong with my generation.
@@pixelgirl843 Gen X accountant and financial advisor here. Its not the Boomers fault. They are benefiting from the economy as it existed in the 60's, 70's and present. Blame the elected officials going back to the 70's.
@@30-Year_Accountantand what gen has held political majority since the 80's when they were on average in their 30's? Millenials are predicted to hold political majority by 2038, I would be 50 at that time, so 20 years ahead of us on political power for one, also in those 70's what gen was also able to Vote? Boomers. I don't blame all as a whole, my issue is with Boomers who say, just vote them out, how when no one not in others pockets can run without money, or get their message to all gens as Boomers mostly stick to TV news, and FB.
@@30-Year_Accountant it is the Boomers' fault because they pulled up all the ladders that existed in the 60s and 70s and voted for politicians that changed the economy into the nightmare it is for everyone that came after. Stop pretending like they all passively did nothing, and its an "I hate it when that happens" moment when this is the end result of decades of deliberately building prisons and eroding the safety net that wthatthey overwhelmingly supported.
@@ToxicAudri All of my children are hard working, but the struggle is real. I'm born 1961 so I feel real between generations. I try to relate to everyone. We all have something in common and can contribute to making this a better place to live. With an equal amount of caring, compassion and understanding we can do it! I have faith in humanity and I will not give in to name calling and belittling people because of difference of opinion or age. We must work together for our future generations.
I wish this worked. It used to be this way. It is no longer. The government everywhere has gerrymanderd the states so badly that we are being represented by people who have stolen our vote
The age isn't the issue with our modern congress. The issue with modern congress is that without term limits, the most manipulative and greedy people are rewarded for taking advantage of the system and polarizing it to 1 of 2 extremes.
A lot of boomers want to tell people how to pay their bills when the voomers gavent paid their own bills in 30 years theyre in old folks homes theyre taking social security theyre pulling out way more than they ever put in and they dontnwant to talk about that because us all us slaves paying into it. I refuse to i just dont work there is more wealth in being jobless thats how destroyed the boomers ruined usa. Sadly gen x been too busy working their wnture lives to realise it. If usa was so prosperous and grsat they wouldnt be labor slaves for life when the boomers parents had to fight world wars and gad it worse and boomers just sat on their ass for life collecting million dollar properties for 40k and banking on us to buy them out like as if theyre not the most lazy greedy selfish generation in this countries history
The clueless are the ones who have tattoo sleeves, go out to drink & party, order Door Dash, Think dating is Swiping Left/Right, play video games, don't know how-to fish or hunt, have never grew a tomato, and constantly have to be on social media or taking selfies for acknowledgement. I don't see many younger generations volunteering to help make their community a better place.
As a boomer, life was easy as shit for us. Free education. Free housing. Free health care. Yea, everything was handed to us. Didn’t have to work at all. Stayed home all day watching Jerry Springer.
Its the age old story of old people and their greed! They will quite literally condemn their children and grandkids for money they will never spend and be eaten up by inheritance tax whilst whinging about taxes at the same time of course
@@smeghead765Are you going to actually state what is wrong with their statement, or are you just going to imply they are wrong for the likes it’s earning you? All these people love to complain and instead of engaging in anything worthwhile it’s just an endless ocean of editable copypasta and gotcha games.
@@Valaditmore than likely their comment was to soothe their own fragile ego. If it wasn't, they would have elaborated on why the person was wrong in their opinion and tried to educate them. Don't even bother with people like that, your time is precious and they're not worth it. 💛
@@Valadit nah. I'll just leave it at that without elaborating because of my one whole like that I was farming. Just kidding. So every single time I have seen disagreement with Citizens United expressed it all comes down to a claim that the court said corporations are people. (It didn't.) And that such an idea is absurd. (It's not.) First, let's take a particularly delicious nugget and set it to the side. That nugget is the fact that the government's position was that they get to decide what you are allowed to say. Period. Yes, really. They wanted to be able to decide if you were allowed to tell other people negative things about candidates. This was for everything like TV, radio, books, social media. At first they argued that this was only to stop bad actors from lying during campaign season because that might effect the outcome of an election. I mean, duh? That's exactly the point right? If you think one candidate is a really bad choice and you want others to agree with you then you should be allowed to tell everyone why. But when pushed they refused to agree to a set time limit so really they just want to be the permanent arbiters of what you can say about any politician at any time and anywhere. Most commies love this idea because they are inherently anti freedom. Now if you're not one of those then you can already see why CU was correct and you don't need any further explanation. But if you are a pinko then allow me to scare you with this thought: Trump. What if Trump had total control of the government and suddenly decided that you weren't allowed to criticize him for fear of swaying the electorate? Main point numero dos. Most people have a problem with the ruling because they don't like the idea of corporations buying politicians. This sounds reasonable at first until you realize a few things. At the time of this ruling the scale of the 2020 coup was not known so there was still a theoretical need to convince the voters. So buying a politician didn't matter unless you could buy the votes to put them in office first. This places those of the anti CU camp in a very awkward position. Either people can be tricked into believing anything with a couple of commercials (in which case they are too stupid to be allowed to vote) or they won't change their principles for any reason (so nothing to worry about). But none of that really matters because they are opening the book in the middle. Let's back up and start from the beginning. Are you okay with buying politicians at all? If not I have a really spiffy idea you'll love later. Or are you okay with buying politicians so long as it's you who does the buying? Be honest with yourself. There's no trick question here. Because communists love to say they're against the rich but their actions tell a different story. So corporations shouldn't be able to spend money to support candidates that align with their business interests. But individuals can. Which individuals? Well all of them but we both know that's not an even playing ground. The rich can spend much more than the poor which is why poor people pool their money together. If you are against Citizens then you are against poor people pooling their money which is distinctly anti communist. On the other hand all communist ideology is contradictory and nonsensical so maybe I should say it's perfectly consistent. All of these arguments are based on the presupposition that lobbying for special interests will always be a thing. No matter how many laws you pass about bribery these supposed public servants always seem to make tens of millions per year despite being paid nowhere near that much. That's why statists waste time fighting over this dumb shit. The later I mentioned: Instead of fighting over who gets to buy the politicians, what if we made buying them pointless? As long as they have the power to pass legislation that controls businesses and people there will always be a powerful incentive to buy them. If we remove their ability to control anything then there is no reason to buy them. The state is the source of corruption. Eliminate the state and you'll eliminate the corruption.
@@smeghead765All political campaigns should be equally funded based on the position. You don't spend correctly, you can't get your message out, too bad.
Here’s an idea: run for office. Propose ideas. Vote for young candidates. The reason old geezers are in office forever is because they are VOTED in. Millennials and Gen Z are large numbers of people. Vote and run for office. If you have ideas, get in the game.
GenX got the last wave of economic good fortune. Hence why Boomers don't pick on them because they "think" GenX "earned" their way, when really Millennials got left holding the bag of the ponzi scheme the Boomers implemented. Hence the generation battle. All of my GenX siblings and in-laws are rolling in the dough in "normal" jobs that only required a high school diploma. Now those same jobs require a fancy degree and an unpaid internship to even have a shot at getting hired. But my husband's degree and unpaid internship was met with unprecedented layoffs so even THAT huge sacrifice didn't pay off. Millennials were SCREWED!!! And Boomers don't want to take accountability for it.
The Greatest generation: 1901-1927 The Silent generation: 1928-1945 Baby Boomer generation: 1946-1964 Gen X: 1965-1980 Gen Millennial:1981-1994 Gen Zoomers: 1995-2009 Gen Alpha: 2010-2024 Gen Beta: 2025-2039 Gen Gamma: 2040-2054 Gen Delta 2055-2069 Gen Eplison: 2070-2084 Gen Zeta: 2085-2099 Gen Eta: 2100-2114 Gen Theta: 2115-2129 Gen Iota: 2130-2144 Gen Kappa: 2145-2159 Gen Lambda: 2160-2174 Gen Mu: 2175-2189 Gen Nu: 2190-2204 Gen Xi: 2205-2219 Gen Omicron: 2220-2234 Gen Pi: 2235-2249 Gen Rho: 2250-2264 Gen Sigma: 2265-2279 Gen Tau: 2280-2294 Gen Upsilon 2295-2309 Gen Phi: 2310-2324 Gen Chi: 2325-2339 Gen Psi: 2340-2354 Gen Omega: 2355-2369
You think us Gen Xers (and boomers) didn't have it hard? Give me a break. A lot of us struggled for years paycheck to paycheck. I worked my tail off day in and day out and never seemed to get ahead. Stop blaming other gens and do something to make a change if you hate your situation so much. Stop blaming. Work hard and vote smart.
@@lovetodance The younger generation doesn’t work half as hard as the older generations. They choose to struggle because they lack good work ethics and most have very little skills. These kids think 40 hours is full time 😂😂
That's your problem. You care too much about the feels. You keep expecting life to be fair. Who cares what you're feeling. No one ever asked us how we were feeling, did we need a little help, how was school going. We put our heads down. We worked 2, 3 jobs if we had to. I worked fulltime as a security guard while I went to college fulltime carried a 16 unit per semester load. I ended up in the emergency room one night from the stress and the strain. I took one day off and then I pulled my big girl pants back on and went to work because I knew the world would never wait for me. You all need to get tougher.
@@ka6459 And I can empathize with you, Im not claiming that you personally didnt have it hard. On an individual basis we've all struggled. The point that we are making here is that the older generations had such a massive advantage its not even funny. I also made a video proving this; found out that based off of the median income and median housing in 1970 this ratio was about 15%. If you look at 2024 it shoots up to 47%. Meaning that the median monthly housing cost takes up 47% of our monthly median income. The sad part about this, is that if you look at 2019, this 47% was actually 17%, in line with 1970. So only in the last 5 years has GenZ been getting completely screwed over.
I am a boomer and I agree that we need young blood running this nation. I would be so happy to see younger generations protesting on Washington to force the issue. We can't afford to wait another 10 plus years for this to happen! Make your voices heard young people!!!
They worked years to make 5k took a 50k loan bought a house and then pulled the ladders up and their houses went to 500k and now people making 200k are scared to buy a house because the truck theyre trying to force them to buy costs 150k after all the taxpayer robberies and subsidies and vorrupt enslavment of the autoindustry with all the tyrannies they for so many years resisted when it was to their own benefit
Stop participating in the game of pitting the generations against one another. You all are falling for the oldest game in the book. Divide and conquer.
@DrMattHH You all outnumber us. So if you really wanted to change things, you could out vote us easily. Sorry we couldn't hand you a perfectly easy life, but we changed what we could. It's your turn now to "fix the world." If you truly believe it's as easy as you think it is roll up your sleaves and do the work needed to effect the change you want. The only reason there is only old people in charge is because the younger people aren't running for office. I can pretty much guarantee you that your grandchildren will blame you for everything wrong in their lives. They'll wine about how easy you had it and it's all your fault they have it so hard. I absolutely realize that you won't believe what I'm saying but when you're the older generation you will see it differently. I'm speaking from experience, I was told the same thing when I was young and like you I dismissed it because well how could some old person really understand the difficulties young people where facing. Live within your means. How often do you buy Starbucks, fast food, name brands, $1000+ new phone? Are you driving a 20-30 year old car? Want to own a nice house? Start with a small repo condo that needs work. But most of all stop thinking the older generation owes you. It's your turn to fix the world for yourselves. Why are you waiting for us to fix it for you?
If you don't like the way the government is run then fix it yourselves. Run for office and change the balance of power. The young people outnumber us, so you could easily out vote us, but apparently that's to much to ask. You're the adults now stop waiting for mommy and daddy to fix it for you.
I am a boomer (both technologically and culturally aware)and I agree with you 1000000000000%. We do not need fossils in government. We need fresh young innovative forward thinkers! Please keep up the great work on your channel.
I’m so lucky I have parents who are well-off but they GET IT. And they are some of the few out there. They absolutely see what’s going on and are trying to figure out how to help us navigate without making us rely on them (unfortunately, I’m moving back home again at 35 because I’m getting a lower salary with my new job and there is literally no affordable housing in Vermont🙃) Other boomers need to STOP trying to gaslight us into thinking that living at home in your thirties is normal and okay. It’s not!
The real problem is people think that all boomers are rich and that there aren’t all the other rich entitled generations who think the same way. Look at Trump, do you think his kids are suffering because things are more expensive??
@@ChadDidNothingWrong a lot of boomers are on social security and struggling to eat. Some of them are homeless. Yes as a whole the boomer generation is wealthier but that doesn't mean all of them are doing well. The richest people I personally know all tend to be fairly young.
@@fafnyrslair My boomer neighbors are disabled and barely surviving in a tiny one bedroom. But most of my parents boomer friends are living well in gated communities, vacationing in Europe, and hanging out at the country club. It's all about statistics. The well-off boomers tend to have well-off millennial kids, because that's just how it works.
@@FrogGuy-tt1wqWouldnt be bitter if boomers tried to have a heart and didn't just blame us for being "lazy" in a rotten system we found ourselves in, one they helped create.
@@thefalseheroYou're only bitter because people told you all your life you're special and life can be fair. Then, you woke up one day and realized they had been lying to you all your life.
@@thefalsehero see they’re not all the same is the issue. this sort of grouping and hating people is always harmful but doesn’t get recognized when it’s like this
Boomers destroyed usa to a level previoualy thought unimaginable. They created grant cardone to scam us with sales pitch propaganda until ebough smoothbrains hand him all their money
Some do. I think getting to a point where they're able to listen is crucial. Making it relatable to the older generation is also important. My mom is as closed off as a locked safe. She hates having to learn anything new. She also hates having her bubble of knowledge popped. So I put it in terms she understands. She loves shopping... I asked her how long the lines are, how many registers were open today? Did you use the self check out. Oh, the lines were super long, and only one register open. "Gee, I wonder why?", I asked her. Did you see any employees walking around while you were shopping? No, there wasn't any employees to be found. I bet they aren't hiring as many cashier's or employees as they used to. I'll bet the self checkouts really save the stores money. Oh, she says that must be it. I told her because they have self checkouts, my kid can't get a job working retail. My mom finally understood, and she says, it's like that in every store now. Then, I asked my mom, what do you propose my kid do for work? She realized at that moment how difficult finding a job really is. She actually felt sorry for all the kids today.
I am from India and we face the exact same issues here... thank you for raising the right concerns. You sir have earned a new subscriber. Thank you once again.
No deference in age discrimination and race discrimination. You can lump everyone into the same box..It definitely makes a person look childish and poorly educated
So is continuously voting for the same people that destroyed our once great cities and are currently doing the same to the country. But that didn't stop people.
@@jeffreybeaudet6922most older folk havent had a normal job since 1980 bud they pretended to have jobs in the 1990s but they were out of touch once computers came and have really been riding on real eastate
I was visiting my mom's step-mother (AWESOME woman, btw) a few years ago and muttered something off-hand about the boomers. And she looked at me and said, "Sweetie, *I'm* a boomer." It really made me step back and re-evaluate how I use these generalized terms.
@@jreneau369 Yeah if they wont vote to ban their insider trading Idk why they would vote to kick out half of the senators. The supreme court could reign them in but they are all appointed for life. At the end of the day, the executive branch has wayyy too much power as they basically control congress through the party. That is the root of the problem imo
I'm a Gen Xer, but my two sons are Gen Z, and I have a three year old grandson - so I am worried about the future. I've taught my boys how to budget and live modestly, save, invest, avoid credit cards and pay cash when possible, shop for bargains, buy used instead of new, only buy what you can afford, don't take wild risks with money, plan meals, stick to a shopping list, cook at home as much as possible, keep consumer debt low, earn and apply for grants/scholarships, work during college, and don't waste money on lavish rock star vacations or depreciating assets like new cars. I also emphasized the importance of education and hard work. Thankfully, they both graduated college and have successful careers.
And about 10 million other mistakes that have been forced on us against our wills since the 1900s that has clearly caused the horrific collapse of usa and the world
You are correct. I'm 62 yrs. old and there are too many life time politicians over 60 yrs. old and they need to leave Washington. Unfortunately, you can broke, get voted into office and then 30 years later, leave office as a very rich person. Hmm.. how does that happen?
My mom and dad live in a 4000 square foot McMansion they purchased for $500k in the 90s, they could sell and downsize but they with all their health problems refuse to sell and live in an appropriate sized home. Lords of the manor and want to give their financial wisdom from above.
My moms a boomer and I can tell you, you all have it way easier, I nor they "boomers" will understand. I get it, when I joined the Navy, no one understood the low ranking airman lol "they dont understand!" lol
Since most of us boomers have children and grandchildren, that is an unfair blanket statement. I see my children and grandchildren struggle. My husband and I are still struggling. Neither one of us had leftover income to put into retirement accounts, and we still have a mortgage payment that continues to go up every year because of high insurance rates and property tax increases. We still have to buy gas and food. Most of us get it. Not all of us grew up like the Donna Reed. show.
Our country isnt going to make it. The evil ones are going to starve us all to death proclaiming themselves our heros before our country will be allowed to get back on the straight and narrow. The people are trying to build usa up but others come along and poison the well so only their well is the one with clean water and because thats the world we live in it will be very hard to get ahead and stay ahead. The harder we try to get ahead the harder they want to burn us down
