Among the many elephants dwelling in the Western room today, the retirement one is far from the smallest. Namely, the retirement system works like a Ponzi scheme: boomers, who are very numerous in proportion thanks to them not having had enough children, and who live much longer than the elders of before, keep milking the younger generations to maintain their costly lifestyle.
Boomers also rely on a number of pillars, both public and private, to maintain themselves: immigration guaranteeing cheap labour; student loans, high rents so that the young keep shoveling hard-earned money into their capitalization schemes, offshoring, freelance work, and so on. Fortunately, every empire falls and the boomers’ one is showing signs of serious decline.
The Social Security system is in trouble. It’s not just a future problem; America’s retirement insurance program is in trouble now. The federal government will start dipping into its Social Security savings account this year to help pay retirement benefits to millions of Americans.
In 2018, the federal government expects to receive about $2 billion less in payroll taxes and investment income than it will need to pay workers through the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program. If nothing changes, that savings account will run dry by 2034, right around when the last of the baby boomers reach retirement age. After that, the government will only have enough money to pay retirees and disabled workers 79 cents for every dollar they’re owed.
These findings were recently published in the Social Security Administration’s 2018 trustees report, prompting the expected torrent of alarming headlines…
To “save” muh medicare, the journalist promotes immigration, including the illegal one, and more taxes on “rich workers.” Are young workers rich when they manage to scramble beyond minimal wage? And, when boomers who claim to be conservative support such ideas, where’s the rule of law when illegal aliens are celebrated as such instead of getting kicked out immediately?
Undocumented immigrants and immigrants with legal status pay billions of dollars each year into the Social Security system through payroll taxes. Based on estimates in the trustees report, the more immigrants that come in, the longer the Social Security system will stay solvent. That’s because immigrants, on average, are a lot younger than the overall US population, so their retirement is far off. And undocumented immigrants pay for Social Security, but they’re not allowed to get benefits…
The reason for that nose dive is because, for the first time in more than 30 years, the Social Security system is running a deficit. That means that in 2017, the federal government cut more Social Security checks to retirees and disabled workers than it collected in payroll taxes from the current workforce. The federal government will have to start dipping into the $2.9 trillion trust fund to keep paying out benefits. This year, the government will probably have to take about $2 billion from the trust fund, according to the report.
Furthermore, Social Security now costs more than before because more Americans are retiring, and they are living longer. In 1960, about 5.1 workers supported each person receiving a retirement or disability check, and that ratio has been shrinking ever since. In 2013, there were 2.9 workers for every beneficiary. So the current level of payroll taxes is no longer enough to keep the program afloat.
Dear boomers, let me tell you what you—not the State, not the X and millennials, not immigrants, no one but you—need to do to solve the problem. Stop thinking you are the only ones who matter. If you were responsible elders, you would accept renouncing to some of your costly habits. No, you don’t need to travel that expensive cruise, take a trip to the spa every month, go to the restaurant all the time or keep these big houses all for yourselves. And no, you don’t have an unconditional right to do so, nor do you deserve to.
The elders of before—you know, those you called fascists back in these awesome 60’s and 70’s—did not pretend they could take everything they wanted. They didn’t blurt out dat’s mirite!, vote for Big Government and let their children, grand-children and baby grand-grandchildren sank into debt. They knew there is no such thing as a free lunch, and even when they had toiled all their lives in factories or tilling the Earth—not in a cushy office like most of you boomers did—they also knew that, at some point, they have to pass the torch.
The media complaining that boomers are “hurt” are as dishonest as Silicon Valley moguls weeping crocodile tears to get more HB-1 workers. No, there is not, and there never was any lack of competent workforce in the US or anywhere in the West when it comes to STEM jobs: moguls just wanted cheaper labour. In similar fashion, the boomers complain solipsistically about themselves without ever paying attention to the obvious—they have already milked everything they could, and now, if they don’t have new slaves they can suck dry, they may have to renounce building that second swimming pool behind their McMansion. Wow, so sad!
No, boomers aren’t getting “hurt” and they aren’t little innocent angels. Their lifestyle and their stubborn willingness to maintain it no matter the cost is hurting us. X, Y, Z—and all the Western civilization that is now imploding from debt, feminism and non-whites’ migratory onslaught. Millennials work multiple jobs, jump from one gig to another, compete with millions of Juan Illegals so that Courtney and Brett can get a luxury dinner for the third time this week.
Boomers then: “We want Communism today! Viva Che Guevara! Spread the wealth!”
Boomers now: “hey Millennials, go back to slave work, someone must pay for my cruises!”
Poor boomers? Give me a break. As a generation they have already wasted their own inheritance long ago. They became used to living well beyond their means. Worse, they pretend that drowning us all under debt, high rents, unfair competition and so on is all and well to maintain these expenditures they shouldn’t even have done in the first place.
Want a common-sensical solution to Medicare and retirement pensions deficit? Simple: lower them, so that they become cheaper and don’t drain the wealth. During hard times, rationing is the evident thing to do. Boomers should just stop gushing into luxury and accept that they, too, have some duties to fulfill. After all, they talked so much about the future generations when it was fashionable. You’ve already consumed way too much when you were younger. Now accept life as it is and learn voluntary simplicity instead of spending, spending and spending like you always did.
Some will point out that boomers’ lives are not only a bed of roses. Aging comes with drawbacks and most, if not all boomers, keep a keen eye on not paying for the expensive treatments they need. But even then—yes, even when we’re talking of Alzheimer disease, cancers and other unglamorous afflictions—I’d still say this: just accept it.
“I don’t want to pay for my cirrhosis and plastic surgery, I just want to live like it’s Woodstock up to 2050”
People have always declined and died off because of old age. There’s no reason it does not happen to boomers as well. And I don’t think fair to pay a couple more years to an old bag of wrinkles who swallows fifty pills a day when young families struggle to barely pay their rent.
Death makes room for the future generations to grow. If boomers want to live for more than a century, that’s simple: go back to work and earn your right to keep living for so long. If you want a luxury lifestyle—earn it, do not steal it cunningly as you already did for too long.
This is as simple as that. Most boomers already had too much ease and cultural weight in the course of their lives. Now learn to shut the fuck up and pass the torch before it blows up in your faces.
The retirement system was sustainable when there were numerous workers and pensioners living within their means. We millennials won’t benefit from it. Any knowledgeable young person knows the whole system will crash well before we get old enough to ask for any money. Well, as it will blow up anyway, the better outcome would be a early crash so that we don’t get drained anymore.
Making America great again doesn’t mean saving its millions of parasites. The same thing goes for the whole West, by the way—France has the exact same problems of social security and retirement deficits, compounded with Africans systematically clogging our hospitals, too. No: MAGA equates to higher wages, more jobs, more opportunities, less immigrants and less parasites. Including those who believe they can sink the ship with them.
If we survive at all, no doubt the future generations will thank The Donald for draining the swamp.
Read Next: Why There Will Be No Radical Life Extension, End Of Aging, Or Immortality
Hey Roosh, would you bang???
That took guts, putting a pic of yourself up here. And I’m not talking about the dude with the glasses.
That is Australopithecus afarensis. It appears that one just might be modeled after “Lucy.”
Face is slightly wrong, probably Homo Habilis.
“boomers, who are very numerous in proportion thanks to them not having had enough children,”
Boomer here, I had five children that I know of, how many more do you think I should have? I’m happy to do my bit!
5 children….no electricity in your area?
He does writing about “banging” in some exotic places. I’m sure he’d give that little cutie a tumble. She looks like what’s known as a “spinner.” Could use a bath though. Wouldn’t take much to get her in the sack. Some bananas would do it.
I would do her
While I agree with your sentiment, talking about SS/Medicaid benefits reductions is a political suicide pill. Even for Donald Trump. The Dems certainly won’t touch it.
That’s why National Socialism is far superior to Democracy and Universal Suffrage. Any potential cure for the myriad diseases that are killing us would be quickly rejected by the masses of low-IQ, self-interested mouth breathers, and all the (special interests) that represent them. Democracy would only work in a society that practiced positive eugenics and strict racial hygiene. A society that required physical fitness, military service, and advanced education levels.
In the Giant Pot of Sh!t that America has been made into, democracy is an absurd concept. A guaranteed suicide pact.
It was the boomers parent’s the so called greatest generation that killed National Socialism and allowed degenerate communism to conquer the West. On top of that they over indulged their little brats instead of shutting them up in the 1960’s. They were also complicit intentionally or not of allowing this country’s demographics to change dramatically.
I hate every fn boomer with every ounce of my being.
I find myself talking to myself saying “fn boomer” whenever I’m in contact with them under my breath.
Feel the same way about millennials RW. I am speaking to them and they look at me with a blank stare and zero understanding. I must re-phrase my point to the level of a retarded 3 year old before I see the gleam of recognition/understanding in their dull matrix jacked eyes. Then they go back to swiping a phone smarter than they will ever be. Depressing…
Millennials were raised by boomers; and millennials live in the dystopian universe boomers created for them. Boomers were literally raised in the gold age of one of the most powerful countries on earth and they literally pissed it away for their own selfish benefit. Millennials have every excuse to be the way they are; boomers do not.
The WW2 generation was the absolute worst. They don’t get nearly enough credit for begetting (both literally and figuratively) the crapstorm we are currently talking about.
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Representative democracy is far superior to National Socialism.
And, of course, the author is projecting her own insecurities about Boomers.
“A society that required physical fitness, military service, and advanced education levels.”
Which would leave you out in the cold, soy boy.
I can see why Millennials look at their phone so much. Boomers are so entitled, they are constantly throwing-up shit, acting passive-aggressive, demanding attention and control, and make big deals out of little things. Thank God there’s a machine designed to ignore Boomers with, designed to be flat so that you can buffer yourself from their rank breath and soulless eyes.
Benjamin Franklin
You can’t just blame Boomer. Blame their parents — Depression Era babies, for being given the first opportunity to vote themselves money outta other people’s pockets. FDR kicked off the mass theft of wealth through the great welfare state. Since Social Security Act back in ’35, people’s first priority was to vote in politicians who would protect their sacred cow, protect heir financial security and pander to their insecurities of being poor and destitute in the old age.
Are Boomers scamming later generations? No. It’s just human nature at work. Everyone is naturally going to promote their own self-interest first. Altruism is a fair-weather pursuit. Boomers just happen to be the first wave of America’s post-WWII supremacy, accumulating wealth in world without economic competition — part of which was the first generation to have the vote to pick the pockets of future generations to pay for their retirement and health care. They were the first generation to benefit from newly formed guberment programs such as FHA/VA financing to purchase homes (the one’s they’re now selling at top dollar), finance their college educations (SallieMae), grow guberments and guberment spending at unimaginable levels, and grow the military industrial complex that now spies on and represses your freedoms, all for the sake of protecting their guberment created estates.
Politicians, always seeking to buy votes with your tax dollars, were complicit in explosion of the welfare state and big-guberment we know today. They fear a situation where they cannot buy votes. And, Boomers (and Gen Xer’s to a lesser degree) fear losing what they’ve been promised their entire lives by Big Daddy Guberment — a taxpayer funded estate they believe they are entitled too, and that you and I are obligated to provide to them at all costs. They are so emotionally vested in this idea of “they’ve earned it,” (despite being mathematically impossible).
I did the math a while back and figured it would take taxing the 120 million taxpayers better part of a century to pay off the national debt from federal tax revenues, much less deal with unfunded liabilities of between 3-7 times that amount. That was before Obama’s trillions of additional debt. It’s an absolutely hopeless situation. Only something akin to a civil war with boomers and Xer’s over what they’ll perceive is stealing their “earned” benefits could solve the problem. Raising retirement ages and cutting benefits are only very temporary measures to delaying the inevitable. And, we only have to look to places such as Greece and now Nicaragua to see what happens when you even suggest such mild fiscal reforms.
Franklin called it two centuries ago. The Republic will fall. It’s just a matter of time.
Just to followup (an apologize for my lack of proofing, ha).
I’m barely out of the Boomer generation demo (Gen-B, or Gen-Beta). I can tell you what to prepare for, a service that I will charge for in the future, but will give away for free here now. I know these people pretty well and have dealt with them in the financial world in various sectors for deacdes now.
1. They are entitled. Not just in attitude, they really believe that their payment of measly contributions into social security, medicare and other state & fed programs entitles them to a level of benefits that is not supported mathematically.
2. They think you and I are lost, lacking and lesser than they. They believe it is our responsibility to take care of the 2nd greatest generation. They demand you pay for their shit, especially old haggardly bitches who had their fun back in the 60’s and 70’s and now want men young and old alike to pay for their Depends pee-pants.
3. Another bubble ala 2007-2009 is about ready to burst. Real estate will crash somewhere between Fall 2018 – Spring 2019. Boomers who are just now recovered from the last global bankster pump-and-dump will want heads to roll this time. And, they’ll want even greater assurances from the impotent “leaders” to protect their nest eggs. This leads to the most important single piece of advice…
4. Do NOT use ERISA plans (IRA’s and 401K’s, etc) to accumulate wealth. Your guberment knows how many trillions are in those IRS sanctioned holding structures (these are tax entity constructs, not investments). Legislation has already been proposed in the past for the guberment to confiscate the trillions in those funds and use it to prop up their balance sheets. They’ve also proposed forced savings (i.e. buy worthless guberment debt and minuscule interest rates). Do a little googlng and you’ll find proposals a decade old to do such a thing. Try to take your money out after such egregious legislation is passed and I’m sure you’ll face more than just a 10% early withdrawal penalty.
All we need is another crisis to get the Boomers the ammo they need to pressure congress to obligate your wealth and savings to continue to pay for their pee-pants. And, that crisis is right down the street, ready and waiting to happen.
Your parents and grandparents will be taken care of. They vote. They also control most of the wealth outside of the top 1%. They will abandon all sense of fairness and concern for future generations and urge those in power to force you into perpetual indentured servitude. That is, unless you’ve done your planning and have options to exit the system with your ass intact.
Well said!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtQmM1YGpTI
Strong comments. Magnum upvotes.
Wow, what a discovery.
Boomers will get the heaviest losses of their social security “investments” and real estate assets.
Yep, private, the stupid part of our generation has given the longest time money in these ponzi systems.
So what, shit happens.
But if I see the prepper or precious metal scene, all old toxic white guys.
No significant number of generation smartphone.
In relation to their numbers and skills, millenials will be fucked by an economic crisis much more.
And I bet the first idea that Millennials are going to be in an economic crisis is:
“Daddy can I come back home? Life has turned too hard here in Starbuck City.”
@PrepZ
Damn man, you really took the time to process and this should be it’s own article. The warning is solidly backed. You’re not paranoid, this conspiracy is legit and by the numbers (+ a running knowledge of human psychology w/ political strategy). I go pretty deep when considering the data/trends/history as prologue to analyzing the meaning of “the current problem,” whatever it is, and you clarified a few things that have been jamming a stick in my mental spokes as it pertains to this generational rift.
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In the recent past I’ve already run several of these cogent/scary points past my own self-satisfied, unbelievably narcissistic boomer parents and they immediately agreed they fucked us over, things are doomed to unravel, and admitted they’ll probably go down as the shittiest generation in American history. I enjoy their candor. Any boomer with a decent IQ knows damn well what they did, but few have the guts to admit it.
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BTW, adding the touch of a somewhat obscure Franklin quote pretty much sealed the argument with panache…it would be daunting for any regular poster at ROK to top what you just put together here. It doesn’t look like a cut/paste; you should post this in several web sites if you haven’t already. Big ups…
Thanks fellas for the kind words and the tips of the hats.
For once, I sense my contribution here on RoK might actually have had an impact, perhaps even helped someone. I think I’ve clarified my mission in life — to help young men do what I’m dong and divorce this bitch before she takes me to court not for half my stuff, but for the OTHER HALF.
I escaped my real marriage with my ass wholly intact. I’m confident I can divorce Uncle Sam just the same.
Trouble with truly divorcing a country is you have no choice but to marry another one. It is functionally impossible to renounce citizenship without having citizenship elsewhere. So where would you go that is not only tax friendly and not socialistic, but GUARANTEED to stay that way?
Also, make no mistake, even if you’re an expat living in SEA or EE, if things get bad enough the natives will turn on you, simply because you don’t look like them.
Andre, good article.
Baby Boomers leached off their parents and now they are parasites to future generations including their spawn, the Millenials.
I don’t think the looting will end till they die off. I don’t think anything will be left by then.
Save yourselves and abandon ship.
All these talks of boomers, gen X, millenials, etc are only designed to further divide people as if Men vs Women is not doing enough harm already.
Maybe so, but boomers and women really are sh!t. What are we supposed to do, pretend we don’t notice? They need to be humiliated and destroyed like they have tried to do to us. This is a zero sum game, whoever wins determines the future of humanity. Do you want that to be shitty morons nursing imaginary grievances, or good white men?
Raymond, you are right.
If that fight ever starts, I hope, there are tough enemies on the other side and not whimpy boring sons of bitches who complain their lousy fate.
This article was written by a shitty moron nursing an imaginary grievance.
Old Boomer rule:
Even if we perish, it was fine!😎
You are somewhat incorrect on the illegals paying into SS but will never see the benefit half of all illegals and legal immigrants are on some form of welfare so it’s not like they are not getting some money back from the system. I do think boomers should take cuts in entitlements but on the contrary, many have nothing in savings and rely on the SS/Medicare alone. SS was supposed to be a supplement of income, not a replacement these retarded boomers refuse to accept that reality and keep screaming “I paid in for 45 years give me my money” lol.
What is destroying America? The same thing that destroyed Rome; Taxes and a Bloated Government Workforce i.e. Bureaucrats. Go to Youtube and search for: “government employees are destroying america” and see for yourself that it is Big Gov. who is to blame.
“Government is not a solution to our problem, government IS the problem. … Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. … The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.”
Ronald Reagan
ya; the guy who first started our debt spiral; gave 3 million illegals amnesty; the Iran contra; no fault divorce…etc etc. Reagan and libertarians are all inbreds…the END. You are not economic experts; you’re not spartan warriors; you don’t know what your talking about….you’re just dumbasses; simple minded inbreds who are getting colonized/conquered and destroyed. Boy; Reagan sure saved us; right?
Illegals dont pay taxes or health insurance. They work under the table.
They also scam welfare, so they live better than you.
“The retirement system was sustainable when there were numerous workers and pensioners living within their means. We millennials won’t benefit from it. Any knowledgeable young person knows the whole system will crash well before we get old enough to ask for any money.”
I don’t even know anymore man… The entire system is based on fake-money. Like I can’t wrap my head around how any of this shit even works.
My province Ontario carries more debt right now than California, but no one seems to care. Does it even matter? I live within my means but I can’t tell if I’m just cucking myself or not.
I think many governments around the world don’t plan to pay down their debt. We can expect higher taxes with a simultaneous deterioration of public services, ER closures due to a lack of physicians, etc. I’ve read some horror stories about Ontario’s Hydro. Good luck…
Women and diversity bros….that’s the problem. Plus; we will never be able to solve our problems as long as libertarian inbreds exist.
You sound like a millennial. Or a Socialist. Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference.
This is one of the most ill-thought-out articles I have seen on RoK. This whole “boomers are off having a good time at everybody’ else’s expense” trope is just another media hate-point, like “All Trump supporters are all racists”, or “All Democrats are socialists”, or “All rich people are evil fat capitalists smoking big cigars and oppressing the poor”; lazy thinking.
As you said yourself, SS is a Ponzi scheme. Worse than that, when it was originally set up, life expectancy was so low that only one in fourteen lived to 65. In other words, it was a scam on day one. But wait! There’s more! It was originally “sold” as “Social Security *Insurance*”. It was an insurance scheme… until some folks wanted to opt out, then the Supreme Court Ruled that it was actually a tax after all, just like they did with Obamacare decades later.
You’re upset. I get it. Things are hard. I agree. But blaming Boomers for wanting what they were promised is as pointless as blaming millennial for being lazy, spoiled and entitled; it’s counterproductive, divisive and not really true. Both are a product of their time, culture and environment. Boomers have their safety nets, millennials have their safe spaces.
Yeah, I am a Boomer. Barely. Worked for more than thirty years. Still working, saving, investing. If I could have opted out of SS, I would have, and I would be a millionaire from that alone. Thanks to the government, I have another thirteen years of this, assuming they don’t move the goalposts again.
So stop blaming the boomer for government-run scams. Not my creation, not my fault, not my problem.
“If I could have opted out of SS, I would have, and I would be a millionaire from that alone.” No; you would probably be broke and living in the streets. In the first recession/depression that hit your retirement funds; the banks/markets you would have had your savings in would have gone under; and considering that you don’t like government apparently; than all the FDIC and other regulatory protections; and bailouts; wouldn’t be there to save your ass. And it is not like you would have another 30 years to save up again. A privatized social security system would be more costly; more unstable; and it would probably lead to more regulations and bailouts. The free market is based on the idea that some people fail and some people succeed; so if you worked your ass off for 30 years only to have invested your money into a failed market well; your fucked; and good luck predicting which market will be a winner 30 years from now.
SS is an incredibly efficient; simple; and secure system. The problems affecting social security today is more about the problems facing our country as a whole than the system itself. All the issues affecting SS now would affect a “privatized” system too; and private companies would compensate by just fucking people over; typically in very unfair ways; kind of like how healthcare companies fucked over people with pre-existing conditions in order to keep premiums “lower” for others.
My dads a boomer, took me camping, taught me how to fish, gut and cook a fish at a camp fire, showed me the stars and about respect and basically how to grow into the man I became. Not all boomers are like that
Of course many boomers were not degenerate hippies during the 60’s but unfortunately the negative impact of that generation has been overwhelming.
Every boomer impact is overwhelming. It’s simple a question of numbers.
And we had been the first pre birth control generation that didn’t fought a major war.
@Schnuffner My dad did the same thing; but still laughs at me when I say that third world people are colonizing us; he still laughs at me when I say women are stupid as fuck; and he still pretends that nothing is wrong and that men just need to grow up and get a wife…what’s your point? Taking a kid fishing is not that hard bro; actually passing on a future to your children is what makes a man. Boomers are children that never grew up; they will never have to live with the consequences of their actions; and they are the most entitled/spoiled/worthless generation alive.
Great job of falsely characterizing an entire generation, Andre. But I’m sure that the brilliance of your generation will outshine all before it and solve all the world’s problem, what with the nature of mankind…
Andre’s accurate for the most part.
Look at #metoo and all of the other garbage Boomers happily encouraged and then look at what happened at Woodstock 1969, for example. Why, by today’s standards, is it not called “Rapestock?” Answer: because Baby Boomers were having their fun and games.
If I had the power to put everything back in time, and force that generation to relive life BUT with what is around today, what they created, that generation would grovel at my feet begging me not to do so. And you know it.
Boomers never learn anything until it affects them. They ignore the debt they created but will suddenly become aware of it if their benefits are cut in any way. If the immigration they want invades their white neighborhoods and they get hurt, then they’d want a wall and immigration reform that would make anything Trump wants or Israel has look like open borders.
Baby Boomers want the younger generations to “fix things,” because they cannot comprehend what a 22 TRILLION dollar deficit is; they’ve ruined the relationship between the sexes with their feminism, our culture is a toxic swap- if we can undo 5% of their mess we are miles ahead of them. Plus don’t forget that THEY ARE STILL AT IT, it’s like trying to put out a burning building while someone is still firebombing it.
Besides, that generation has ALWAYS bad-mouthed younger generations. Too bad if they get some of it thrown back at them.
Author’s name should be Andre du Butthurt Millenial.
Same with the downvoters
The photo of the people on the beach upsets me.
#triggered.
Much so.
You sound pretty butt-hurt, André. Is that your real name? If so, I hope you’re French because people would beat you up and butt rape you in the USA if you went to school here with a name like that (faggot sounding to American ears) and then you’d really be butt-hurt.
@”proud” boomer
Fuck off you degenerate scum generation. Liberal, marxist, dishonourable trash.
Oooh, sounds like you’re super butthurt, fieldie.
Nah, most of the essay writers on RoK call themselves the most pompous things imaginable, so we’ll all think they’re oh so sophisticated.
whoever made this troll, great joke! totally out of touch, self-important and boomer-sounding. prolly a joy and a treat to be around irl.
Boomer cucks ruined the economy . The cost of living is so high everywhere in America . A 500 sq ft apartment is 1000+ while most jobs only want to pay you 15 an hour. The health industry is also high. I got sick and had to pay 700 dollars for a ambulance ride for 15 miles. America is in trouble and the middle class is being destroyed
That’s not the fault of any generation. It’s symptomatic of late stage capitalism slowly (alas) reaching its terminus. You can run from the dialectic, but you can’t hide.
nah, it’s boomers
I agree with much of your rant, but the US and the first-world west faces a lot of problems bigger than the boomers, such as predatory corporate capitalism, corrupt governments beholden to an elite few, rising CO2 levels and acidifying oceans, and engineered societal/cultural rifts that distract the masses into fighting amongst themselves.
Sure, it’s good to be aware of the drain that boomers contribute to the system, but there are many factors contributing to the collapse. This essay just comes off as sour grapes, for I suspect the writer wouldn’t care so much if his social security was assured. (Not a judgement, that’s just human nature.)
This isn’t the “accept reality and pull yourself up by your scrote sac” writing I usually find at ROK. Maybe if you suggested ways to realistically face this challenge I’d have more use for it.
Except Boomers are still in charge (huge demographic- where do you think “Boomer” came from?), and are still making a mess. Ignoring what they are doing and what they have done is like ignoring Freidan and Steinman with the feminist mess.
Not everything falls into what lonely individuals can fix. People on the right need to learn the power of influencing, media campaign and the like. If it is about improving your life as a millennial, I’d advice moonlighting and leaving the West. But when it comes to saving the West and being culturally efficient, there’s no point jerking off on BS personal improvement and “you are responsible for everything that happens”. A truly equilibrated position makes use of both personal responsibility and social influence.
“Realistically facing the challenge”? Organize, take a good chunk of financial and cultural power, and ask the Santa Muerte to free us from muh John Lennon power holders.
Besides, there IS a “accept reality and pull yourself up by your scrote sac” part. I just address the boomers rather than the millennials. This is logical, as 1) this is not only our problem but a problem for the whole West, 2) they are still in power and hold it firmly, and 3) they have to accept the reality of their unavoidable aging instead of exploiting the future generations in a futile attempt to escape it.
If sounding sour is the better way to pressure reality-deniers into awareness, so be it.
Blah Blah Blah. The so-called Boomers were probably the most idealistic generation ever and hoped to change the system for the better. Listen to their music and get woke, kid. The Boomers were assimilated and co-opted by the Establishment. The Establishment at that time was made up of Boomer parents and grand-parents. So the Boomers became believers, and when the system told them they would get taken care of for being good citizens and having jobs and paying taxes they believed it and bought in. Now here we are and a bunch of crybabies are blaming the Boomers for expecting the agreement they bought into when they were young should be honored today. Boomers paid their dues. Now you can pay yours. You poor millennials who have been told how special you are and have been given participation trophies for no accomplishment and having no better example to live by than your slacker parents are all living in a ridiculous misapprehended quasi-reality of self-entitlement and narcissism. Not to worry. I’m sure you’ll come up with an app for that.
Comments like this, which you see every time Boomers are criticized, are proof that they just don’t get it. They have zero self-awareness, but what’s worse they seem to have zero awareness of the world around them and the very real problems we are facing. They have zero sense of responsibility for letting things get so bad on their watch. They have no grasp of how much different life is today than it was 50 years ago. They have no concept of what it’s like to compete in today’s job market or sexual marketplace. They are utterly clueless about anything that doesn’t immediately impact their selfish, narcissistic, materialistic desires. But worst of all, their absolute ignorance of the facts has never stopped them from angrily and violently lashing out at all those who dare criticize their destructive and disastrous choices. Boomers don’t have a clue about anything, and they DON’T WANT TO. They have committed unforgivable sins against their own children, and they brains simply shut off when forced to contemplate their own evil venality.
#butthurtxandmillenialgenerations.
Wow! Drugs really do alter perceptions. I think the heavy drug load many boomers indulged in the 60’s permanently disconnected them from reality. As your post would suggest. At any rate by far the most hypocritical and self centered generation.
honestly, this sounds like something a stoner would write
Boomers ran up 22 TRILLION DOLLARS in unpayable debt, spent everything that the next 10 generations would earn, flooded their own country with hostile, aggressive aliens, jacked up the costs of housing, education and medical care to unaffordable levels, gleefully submitted to every half-baked nation-wrecking scheme ever placed before them, set their women against their men, gave away their nation and heritage to low IQ mongrels, hollowed out the economy so that the Hostile Alien Elite could steal the White Man’s labor, shipped all of our jobs to Red China, ushered in the era of degeneracy, but hey, ask a Boomer, and they will tell you, THEY DINT DU NUFFIN!!!
Now tell me about your 40+ years of hard work and serving your country, tinkerbell.
“Serving your country” is leaving them a scorched earth economy in a multiculti cesspool with unpayable debt owed to the Communist Chinese? I would hate to see your idea of screwing us over.
Or you could try and refute anything he said, lol.
I’m 24 and all my coworkers are 65+ and fucking dying. I hate them, they didn’t plan ahead so now I’m working with these brittle, grey-haired, weak, and slow assholes who barely even show up half the time. One has fuckin bone cancer, the other has a weak heart, one is known alcoholic, and my boss can’t stop sucking down cigarettes to save his life. And they say I need to do better…fuckin please. I hate baby boomers.
You Gen Xers and millenials ain’t exactly setting the world on fire.
#crybabies
They probably hate you too. You’d notice if you got your nose out of your i-phag and soy latte.
I’m not a boomer but managed to slip in, financially, before they messed everything up (or at least rack up the benefits of them starting to mess things up).
When I tell students today my loans were reconsolidated for less then 3%. They simply don’t believe me because the current rate is 7-9% depending on the loan product.
Likewise, a few years ago, was able to re-fi my condo for a 15 year mortgage at around 2.7% down from a 30 year loan ringing it around 4.5% (which was still historically good). The move cut about six years off the life of the loan and I pay about $100 less a month. Amazing. Plus if I keep on paying back at the old rate it will cut another year or so off the total loan. All of that for just signing some paperwork and calling up a few banks.
But kids today are screwed. They will never be able to afford property let alone move out of their parent’s house. The only “upside” if you are not a millennial is that wages in some sectors are growing to attract the age dynamic. Since their student debt is so high the only way a lot of these tech companies can get new blood is by paying them more. Work out great is you are like me and about 5 years older, enjoyed the historically low interest rates, and now get routine 50-10% pay bumps every compensation year.
“But kids today are screwed. They will never be able to afford property let alone move out of their parent’s house.”
But since you generations that followed the boomer are so smart, why can’t you buy some cheap property and build a house yourself? This dumb boomer did.
The Boomers who run the local city and county governments will have their greedy, wretched mitts out for a hundred grand before you even get to the groundbreaking, for all the permits, surveys, taxes, and fees – just on a parcel of raw land with basic utilities.
Of course back when you pulled your little stunt, you could basically just go squat somewhere, or maybe pick up a few primo acres for a thousand bucks apiece. Being the lunkhead you are, you can’t conceive the radical differences in cost between fifty years ago and today.
This is true. I moved to the country expecting to build everything myself. But there are codes, codes and more codes not like the good old days of the young boomer generation when you could build what you want when you want and where you want. Fortunately I was able to pay to have things built.
I bought some investment property in the South about ten years ago. Didn’t really move on anything at the time as I was busy professionally. Taxes were next to nothing….until about three years ago. Post-boomers finally started building and my property taxes went up about 500%. Supposedly it was to pay for the schools that have had flat enrollment since the 80’s. Everyone moving down there is an empty nester or retired.
Then the county started requiring sewer, gas, and electric hookups to be active all 12 months. Before that you could just call up the utility and have service suspending during the off-season when no one was occupying the house. No joking their explanation for the requirement was “what if a squatter who needed shelter from a hurricane took up residence?”
Now there is a 1.5% building impact fee in the county on top of the high taxes. Banks also stopped giving out construction loans after 2008 and if you can find one it is high interest. So you basically have to self-finance (through family, etc.) now or have the money in savings.
I got a construction quote in the early 2000’s and a 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath modest ranch was going to cost me $40,000. My plan was to use it mostly as a rental since I live in the NE and the property is a reasonable drive away from many tourist attractions. Got another quote when I was down that way about three years ago. The going rate now as $150,000 with the increase largely being increased regulations, taxes on everything, and unnecessary regular inspection. Confirmed pricing with another builder in the area, so I just listed the property and sold it to be done with it.
The government doesn’t want you to be able to be self sufficient.
Boomers invited millions of Mexicans and Chinese to come in and take over entire cities, just so they could inflate the prices of their crackerbox real estate. Between their enthusiastic support of open borders, and their incredibly offensive asking prices when they sell their homes, they have completely priced their own children out from being able to have a decent home and raise a family. It’s almost unforgivable, but you can give them a little slack when you realize all of it was implanted into their heads by the Ta1mudvision. They sure did make willing victims though, didn’t they? They loved every minute of it.
Their is no cheap property anymore, and you need a full time job to get the money to buy it. Not an option for those in the working poor.
“Cheap property”
This doesn’t exist anymore. Please show me how you can buy property on $3,000 a month income when you’re basic rent and living expenses are $2,900. You’re clueless.
When they are dead.
More boomer bashing bullshit. It’s become a staple of RoK. And this passage is a peach:
“If you were responsible elders, you would accept renouncing to some of your costly habits. No, you don’t need to travel that expensive cruise, take a trip to the spa every month, go to the restaurant all the time or keep these big houses all for yourselves. And no, you don’t have an unconditional right to do so, nor do you deserve to.”
Wow. First off, “renouncing to”? Great grammar. As for the rest, only a small minority of boomers live that lifestyle. Oh, by the way, it was the WW2 generation that voted in New Deal/Great Society politicians, not boomers. We were too young to vote.
@herbie noodlehead
piss off you degenerate piece of trash.
And take the rest of your piece of shit generation with you.
Boomers do need to agree to let SS go away and pay down government debt in a deal where the government agrees to balance the budget and severely limit borrowing. Sacrificing for the greater good has always been the right thing, and every boomer I know admits the country is screwed but seems to think they still deserve their SS. I pay more into SS than my dad gets out. Drop the benefits and I’ll take care of him myself.
SS is not the problem bro. Libertarians are cowards; gay; faggot; fattasses retards….don’t be one.
Eat shit and die, Wes. Libertarians never were proponents of Social Security. That would be the Socialist the gay faggot, fatass retarded soyboy millenials like you.
SS/New Deal grew to the be the monsters that they have become under the Boomers. Back in the 20’s and 30’s these government programs were modest (in today’s terms) and meant to be short lived. Once the economy got roaring again they were supposed to go away. But as we know no government hand-out program actually goes away unless it is subjected to a large amount of political “heavy lifting”. Up until the 60’s the average SS recipient drew benefits for about 2 years, not the current 20+ now. It was never meant to be a public pension, merely a widow/widower insurance fund.
The Boomers demanded LBJ’s “great society” and the welfare state that persisted through until the 90’s. That, included fighting unnecessary wars, broke the USA. It is just now we are getting out of this s- hole largely due to political movements from the 80’s onward.
please renouncing to ligma
So far the only boomer I believe in is Donald Trump.
You can trust me too, brah
And only because he’s slightly better than the competition. He still does all the typical Boomer things, like cucking to little girls, raising spoiled princesses, cucking to foreigners, cucking to YKW, cucking left cucking right cucking center.
In short, White Boomer Men are the biggest cucks the world has ever seen, which is why their women went wild and rebelled against them…and they stood by like idiots allowing it all to happen, as the gates were overrun with savage barbarian hordes and the wicked Military Industrial Complex was making enemies all over the globe that we’d have to deal with later.
Millenials have not contributed much in terms of arts and culture. Your Women have to be the most repulsive generation of females ever.
Millenials are punks who like rap music and diversity. Yeah, their really helping solve the problems.
I am not a millennial and agree on your point regarding art and culture, but honestly what did the boomers contribute to art or culture. It seems like most of the art coming from boomers was fairly degenerate whether music, movies, literature, bizarre paintings and pathetic attempts at poetry.
Millennials have the worst music in the history of audio recordings. It ranges from horrible to mediocre and then they just talk it up as if it’s “the best ever!” and “Uh-MAZing”. If it’s not formulaic pop, country, or hip-hop, it’s pretentious “indie” nonsense.
“Millennials have the worst music in the history of audio recordings”
The band Foster The People comes to my mind – that name alone smacks of marxist caterwauling.
Sorry, boomers PAID into SS for most of their lives, they ARE entitled to it.
This article reads like a spoiled little brat’s rant against his parents. Pushing 30,, living in mommy’s basement, no job, playing video games and smoking all day long whining about how everyone owes him.
Sorry
You stupid fool, if you got out of SS what you paid into it, it would be jack squat! The whole ponzi scheme is based on Boomers getting back 100x what they contributed, and making up the difference with illegal aliens. Break out a pen and put your weak brain to work on some math problems…try to figure out how much you ACTUALLY earned and paid in to the system before you go squawking about your entitlements.
GenX put in every penny that you did, and then some, but they won’t expect to receive one thin dime after rapacious Boomers have scavenged every last morsel from our national reserves on their way to the grave.
I paid around $10-$15k/year into my NI (UK version of SS), over 35 years without interest is $300k-$450k. they intend to pay me $10k/year when I retire at age 67. I’m thinking I won’t get back what I paid (unless I live until 110 years old), but your math might be different.
People in the states don’t pay anywhere near that much into SS unless they are top executives in multinational corporations. And their payouts are typically more in the $18 – 24k range.
Not exactly an Actuarial Wizard are you? You are the stupid fool.
Thank you Tolstoink. A rare voice of reason amongst the screams of the nursery.
Most of you had a house at age 25…Young Gen Xer’s ( I was 28 when the banker bailouts took place in 2008) like me saw apartment/condo rentals double in price for a 1 bedroom in a few short years, where the low priced homes on the market from 2009-2013 were only being sold for cash purchases (80 grand or more)…You don’t know what its like when 37% of your income goes to a 1 bedroom apartment…NO FUCKING IDEA!!!
When you were 28, you didn’t have to compete with all the H1-B visas from India and other parts of Asia, you didn’t have the diversity workplaces pushed down your throats…Your jobs had more security then a bank vault. Many boomers at work, take longer breaks then most, sitting and smoking 3 packs a day. FUCK YOU!!! IVE WORKED SINCE 1994 you FAT MOTHERFUCKER!!!
You speak true words brother. One bedroom apartments are so expensive and most of my income goes to it . Boomer cucks are always bashing young men but they were raised in an economy where the cost of living wasn’t high.
You millennials idolize all the nigs in sports and entertainment. So you think you’re qualified to talk shiit about other generations??????
It was the boomers that let them into the all white sports in the first place.
Nope, just certain (((boomers))) in the enterainment industry. I don’t recall me and my peers having any say in it. The diversity crap was forced on us and the country at large. By goverment and news and entertainment media.
If at that time games were boycotted then it never would have happened. How many just couldn’t wait to see Jackie Robinson play. I personally don’t watch sports but an unfair majority of players tend to be black.
Jackie Robinson broke the colour barrier in sport in 1947, while the oldest boomer was 1 year old! Go learn some history & become informed, a-hole.
Yea. Like the boomers didn’t embrace all the radical change that destroyed my country jackass. Born in 1966 in a 90 percent white country now approaching minority status thanks fool!
CavaLiar: “ASPP” would like to thank-you for your continuing contributions to science. Much has been learned by examining a real living ass-hole. (ASPP = American Society of Professional Proctologists).
You must look in the mirror a lot.
Cavaliar : why don’t you visit Ottawa and “take-it-up” with Justin€ True-Duh. His family is responsible for much of the western world’s racial & gender issues. When you are done “tak’n-it-up-u’r-procto-examined-ass”, you can then run yours up Justin€’s ASS. Hey, the hypocrisy of a-holes : u r a phuc’n boomer ! Born in 66, conceived in 65 (life begins at conception=dick-wad); therefore you are a phuc’n boomer ! Look in the mirror & see boomer-you! Have a nice day faye-gut!
I didn’t realize that someone locked in a padded room in a mental institution could have access to a computer. You blame Trudeau for the Western World’s problems? He is an insignificant degenerate.
As a superior GenXer, I can’t help but notice my own superiority and that of my generation as a whole. Sure, we’ve got our issues. But we look at our parents and see all the shortcomings described on this page. We look at our younger millenial relatives and co-workers and see hopelessly naive, blue-pilled, materialistic, weak, and unambitious types, tailor made for socialist rule.
GenX are the happy medium. We have done a lot of cool things in the world, and even living in the shadows of The Eternal Boomer, we managed to outclass them in just about every creative and technical arena. We have our share of political fools but we also invented the Alt-Right as a response to WeakSauce BoomerScum.
Yep, I guess I’m a Gen X Supremacist. We rule. We were cool as fuck in our teens and twenties, and we still are today.
I could list all the cool things GenX has done but why bother, everyone here knows what I’m talking about, right?
Absolutely right Zero Boys!
Zero, zero, zero. Every creative and technical area? Compare the music of the 1960s, or even the New Wave of the late 1970s-80s, to the garbage of the 90s like Grunge, Green Day, Nickelback etc. And technical? Steve Jobs, born 1955. Bill Gates, also born 1955. Back to music. Even the art rock of the 70s was better than anything the 90s had. Ian Anderson, born 1947. David Gilmour, born 1946. Get the point? As for the alt.right, it’s a political laughing-stock. Mom’s basement white boys with funny haircuts.
Our generation gave you old school thrash metal like Slayer and Metallica.Gen X music ruled.
you didn’t make that music, you mushy fag
I might add, GenX was the last generation that didn’t produce muddsharkz en masse. From there on down it’s been nothing but utter ruin. Mulatto bastard-spawn and smartphones are common accessories to Milennial girls just like combat boots and safety pins were to GenX chicks.
You can track the degradation via the media, by watching the trajectory of hollywood entertainment from the eighties onward. Those girls were deliberately brainwashed from birth.
Last time my wife was pregnant, I went to the doctor with her. Shit me not, 5 total gals in waiting room, 3 of these slits had black children and were pregnant with some white boy holding their hands in the waiting room. I said nothing. My wife was the one whom pointed out “wtf?”
I had a similar experience last time I went to court.
The single most critical mistake that Boomers made was ignoring the “BIG QUESTION” until it was too late and we were all boxed in. In fact they didn’t just “ignore” it, they actively rebelled against their parents for trying to warn them. They used it as a point of pride that they would cvck out to any foreigner with his hand out and discard all previous generational knowledge that took thousands of years to accumulate.
Now, here we are. Slaves to a ruined economy. Slaves to a massive military industry that demands sacrifice. Slaves to a huge debt never seen before in all the world. Slaves to technology that was used by Boomers for evil instead of good. They erected a surveillance state all around us so they could be insulated from the consequences of the Civil Wrongs Movement that they supported.
They seem to be proud of the fact that they’ll leave their children nothing, to grovel at the feet of hostile aliens who have totally captured their economy. They take pride in spending up all their savings before death so they leave nothing behind. They stay in all of the best jobs for a couple decades past standard retirement age, so that nobody else can move up. They still have faith in a mass media that was so obviously subverted and co-opted about 60 years ago. They support the Deep State and all its rotten machinations. They are NeverTrumpers….GenX got Trump elected never forget that.
They sure are smug considering that they were all guinea pigs for the frankfurt school and they lost the fight for their own minds.
You are right. The boomers just had it all so good. Of course there are conservative ones but the liberal ones literally bit that hand that fed them. To this day they fight against what they called the establishment while reaping every benefit that establishment could give them. They suffer from total cognitive dissonance. Probably all the drugs they took and the pharmaceuticals they now take just to keep them alive.
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I’m not sure this will not be blocked, I’m aware I’m not using a totally transparent id on internet but these days, being anon is the way to go and being able to post as an anon is something that has progressively been erased in this age of tyranny. It feels good. It’s like you can come to a place and start discussing with people without having a corporation tagging you across the entire internet with IP, cookies and legal doxing.
I agree with what has been said about GenX’s value.
It’s the true resistance. It is indeed a happy medium. Not a perfect generation, extremely influenced by the talmudvision, sure, but it has strengths; first of all, it’s not old as Boomers are.
It can see Boomers’ mistakes and thanks to still being relatively young and yet having enough life experience, the 30-40 or so people are the spearhead of the resistance.
Everything kept going down. Values, arts, way of life. 1Kers haven’t seen much beauty since their inception. Look at the profanity these days. FUCK is ubiquitous. GenX grew from a time when there were parental advisory stickers on CDs.
1Kers. Millenials, 1000, 1K. But sounds like wankers and that’s what they are. They’re bred to be weak and collectivism-compliant, surrounded by smartphones, Internet-of-Things and instagram to be spied upon.
Many 1Kers don’t even know what it is to have been through unmixed schools, having lived in unmixed suburbs or even small towns.
GenX has seen the economy going down without even ever tasting the good part of it. It’s seen the increase of immigration and the rise of multiculturalism. It can say, just like Boomers are saying since decades, older times were better. 1Kers are just too young to get it atm. Barely born before 9/11, most of them now born after, they have only known terror and war against terror. Just take a breath, pause and think about that. Their collective history blossoms from 9/11. What kind of world is that?
Being born well before 9/11 and having experienced the shock is an advantage for GenX. Boomers are too old to get down in the street or use fists. Their metabolism plays against them. 1Kers, OTOH, take it as a usual monday routine and eat spoonful bowls of bluepills at breakfast.
GenX knows how it was before. Boomers too, but they’re sluggish to react and disconnected from the tech world. GenX remembers how the shows and movies in the 80-90s still had a glimpse of hope and happiness without feeling utterly decadent or literally drowning in so called edgy grim darkness where the truth and valor are always on the side of blue pigs and vibrant colored masses. And yet, yes, it was already bad.
GenX has seen liberties being sucked dry, whilst Boomers thought that the increase of liberty was a net positive for everybody, not realizing that it meant the lowering of natural defenses societies took eons to build up.
GenX has grown with computers, it understands the tech and also remembers the earlier internet, has tasted the freedom, the wilderness of it. It has experience with these modern and evolving tools. It actually builds and maintains them.
Today really is a battle at the GenX level, pervading now in IT tech for propaganda. Because the first step of revolution must happen in the minds of people.
1Kers are not that free and they don’t know what is. They’re led to consume and have become cyborgs; they cannot live without their machines. If (((they))) would shut it down, 1Kers would suffer a lot, going through all the symptoms of addiction.
GenX still benefited from relatively acceptable levels of education and didn’t have to swallow the insanity that’s fostered upon younglings these days in both medias and schools.
Not all 1Kers are delusional and unaware though. Being born in the nutech age of fads, flamboyant narcissism and apptexting, they exchange ideas in the blink of an eye and what doesn’t stick to the wall dies within the month. They may be the fastest to switch from one side to another because of that, so this is also why the system doubles down on them to the point of saturation in the soviet-type of indoctrination, because the soft push-pull method of yesteryear that was adequate for GenX isn’t relevant today.
In fact, 1Kers have a huge potential for indiscriminate and quirky upheaval in the same way the strictly educated Japanese youth get their escapism in the most weird stuff you could think of.
Now let’s imagine how a part of that escapism that gets political. Then another part of that political escapism going far right, just to piss people off.
Because it’s fun.
This is where GenX shows the way, making it fun through memes that the younger ones are eager to propagate like wildfire.
There was a lingering question there, I think.
Are Boomers to blame?
To a large degree, many of them can be held accountable for the mess we’re in today. However, they are themselves the naïve ones, exposed to a nefarious level of propaganda and manipulation we’ve hardly seen before in the age of mankind. All of this went overdrive after WW2.
You have to understand WW2. It’s not a fancy story of good and evil, of Allies vs Axis.
It’s a sad story of manipulated sides pushed a suicidal mutually assured destruction wherein one side was deluded into thinking it won because it could loot the other side at will.
Of entire generations which had their collective souls smashed to shards. Oh, your father fought on the Allies side? He was a hero? He vanquished absolute evil?
Let’s talk to one of these old men.
Look at what happened to your country, Mr. victor.
Does it look like you’ve been strengthened? Does it look like it’s survived as a place where age old solid and traditional values have won the day?
You old white vet rag, have you been spared the guilt? Have you been allowed to say to NO to forced miscegenation? Haven’t you been called racist and bigoted despite your sacrifice?
Did you regain control of your presses and banks?
No, you just were agents of plunder and misery.
You didn’t win WW2.
Take a look at how they transformed your society, all with the alien faggotry of disco and gay hairstyles sand clothes, all of that pushed down your children’s throats, later to be called Boomers but implicitly orientated towards becoming Booners.
Does that look like victory over evil, europid US soldier?
WW2 was victory over ALL that was detrimental to the interests of people who didn’t care about your families. No more racism and xenophobia, no more patriarchy and homophobia. No more walls and borders. No more pride and legacy.
See that? These Boomers were made sure to embrace it wholly. It was cool, it was trendy, it was progress against the horrible temptation of darkness, against total war, it was civilization they said.
Oh, you complained that you were not phobic, that you only wanted to be left alone, surrounded by your medals and war pictures. Sorry grandpa, you’re not the one making definitions.
Neither is your once booming weakspawn. Look at what their own children and grand-kids have to take to the guts now! GenX and 1Kers are exposed to a new concept: White fragility.
We know who are the twisted creatures who came up with these psychologically destructive terms. This is what the gender-neutral and faggot’d 1Kers will have to deal with. Fragility, yiddisney values, pesticides and hormones in their food and water, rape and slavery with age of consent nearing 10.
Is that what you wanted, war hero?
Have you recently taken a look at who owns your country for real? All the US heavy and tech industries, financial and media corporations, schools and academies, sports teams and cultural centers?
Still feeling proud?
Poor grandpa.
Leave him alone. Let’s get back to the ancient weakspawn, the Boomers.
Brainwashed as they were. But 1Kers are just as bad. Not because they’re exposed to multiculturalism, but because they are the multiculture; many of them are already half-breeds and if they’re not, they’ve got so many colored friends that it’s very hard to hope getting them out of their torpor and activate suppressed instincts suffocating under meters upon meters of indoctrination.
This, of course, is not meant to be a rant against the colored people. There’s enough room on this good Earth for everybody. To each his own land and things will be okay.
The problem is the invasion, or what is rightfully understood as such. Assimilation and transformation can only happen at low sub-one percentages. At best.
Race being the element you cannot change, only a heavy dose of imposed culture by the host environment may eventually, and I stress on eventually, bring strangers to be regarded as potentially acceptable.
1%, is it too much? Out of 300 M people, it’s already 3 million. Would you accept three million strangers within your own country? Just like that? Knowing that the more different they are, starting with ethnicity, the harder the assimilation?
That’s a question Boomers should have asked themselves a long time ago.
Some of them did. They created bad-bad-no-no political parties nobody voted for.
“I’m no raciss bu’…”
Sorry, not enough.
Now, think about that: is it bad that Boomers spend all the sweet money on and on? Sure, somewhere in the back of your mind you ask where the hell this money comes from, is it sustainable. But on the other hand, technically, shouldn’t it actually be fantastic? Spending money makes the economy’s wheel turn. It gives reasons to work, it creates jobs.
So where is the REAL problem then? Are they spending too much? A bit, perhaps, but I’m fairly sure that a sane society could easily provide a similar way of life without depending on criminally thoughtless plans spanning several decades, nor based on an mandatory expansion of the population’s volume. That’s utter BS.
The debt, although scandalous and a scam of the highest order, can be solved. But this pretty much requires the destruction of the Federal Reserve and similar schemes. Aim for it, get rid of anyone or anything that tries to protect this heart of malevolence, and you’ll get closer to freedom.
So I don’t think dividing ourselves over whether Boomers are cretins and traitors is useful.
If anything, they must evolve and become the exemplary elders we like to think of, those who hold the wisdom. We have to help them get there, to get mature in the mind and catch up with their bodies! This wisdom, it’s potent because Boomers have experienced much more than GenX and 1Kers combined, but they have to be woken up. They have to be taught that by being lied to, they condemned future generations when they thought they were creating a better world.
They need to become tougher, full of rage for having been turned into the builders of the comfy CCTV prisons their children and grandchildren live in.
Most importantly, they have to understand that if they don’t revolt and engage everything they have, they’ll be remembered as an afflicted generation without honor, reviled and hated for centuries to come.
Young people need elders who learned from their mistakes. Telling Boomers they’re a part of the problem may be useful to some degree but only if this anti attitude becomes productive in a near future.
But if it’s just another layer in the blame game, I’d rather have the Boomers ignored entirely than starting another fruitless witch hunt. Their time is nearly over anyway and you wouldn’t want to become one of those obsessive yad vashemites hunting down old german people because of muh feeleenz and shekels.
And we had enough of that already.
Interesting article but obviously lumping one whole generation together in such ways is a fallacy. My father was of the right age to be a boomer. And amazing, brilliant, hard working and simple man. Not a thing said in this article represents him.
My mother on the other hand is probably represented by this article too well. She is currently draining much of her fathers fortune he worked so hard to build. At the same time she has SS and retirement from a life as a public school teacher. She’s in her sixties and spending it like a teenager with her first job.
That said, if violence against boomers ever becomes a thing and someone goes after my mom, or dad, I will end said person if given the chance.
Of course all boomers were not bad but the 60’s was definitely the point where our culture changed significantly for the worse. The truth is the boomer’s parents should have shut that down before it got out of control. So in many ways the boomer’s parents were the ones to blame. But it was strangely enough, the most affluent of the boomers that became the subversive hippie generation.
Up until WW2, mankind practically lived from hand to mouth. People couldn’t afford to be hippies – they were too busy surviving. Then the west became prosperous and people could live in comfort. No more chopping wood, raising chickens in the back yard, no more working oneself to death in a coal mine. When your basic needs are covered and you even have a big surplus of money and seemingly endless resources at your disposal, it does strange things to some people. Some of what happened in the 60s was the human nature coming out to play when the usual restrictions were suddenly removed.
Another problem no one seems to understand is that Genx isn’t paying for the boomers, they are paying for the generation AFTER them. The generation BEFORE the boomers paid the boomers tab.
Still, the younger posters here just come across as whining wannabes, bitching how their parents owe them even MORE. I say get off your collective asses, get out of the basement, get a job and at least try to grow up and become men.
It goes without saying that NABALT and praise the Lord for the exceptions, like GLR, WLP and creative visionaries such as Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch. Praise the Lord for all the Booomer men who were good fathers to their sons and honorable leaders to their wives. It’s just that there weren’t enough of them.
You can’t really discuss wider concepts without generalizing large groups of people. Individuals should try not to take it so personally and learn from whatever criticism applies. Generalization is valid because it helps to clarify more complex ideas without getting bogged down in the minutiae. The exception makes the rule.
The bottom line is, these new generations of millennials should learn the value of hard work, no matter how lucky they are with the wealth and the comfort of the technology nowadays.
While I have little to no sympathy for boomers, it is the WW2 generation that truly deserves the main blame. The “greatest generation” doesn’t get nearly enough credit for just how much they contributed to the terrible situation we find ourselves in today, from affirmative action to immigration to the willingness to embrace socialism and enable parasitism in all its forms. Everything terrible the boomers did, the WW2 generation made possible. The WW2 fighters were utterly useless parents, being absent and unguiding at worst or positively enabling at best. And of course they were pawns too, willingly going out to slaughter their fellow whites at the behest of a socialist president they elected and re-elected again… 4… freaking… times…
The greatest generation is actually the worst generation the US has ever seen and sewed the seeds for all the crap (including the boomers) that followed afterwards.
So in other words, Boomers need to recognize their Boomer Privilege.
And YOU, the individual boomer reading this, are directly responsible for faults of the entire generation, politicians, economy etc. and should cancel your boat trip and give away your pension and life savings because I can’t afford the same lifestyle.
Writer is whining and sounds like a feminist Commie.
“Undocumented immigrants and immigrants with legal status pay billions of dollars each year into the Social Security system through payroll taxes. Based on estimates in the trustees report, the more immigrants that come in, the longer the Social Security system will stay solvent. That’s because immigrants, on average, are a lot younger than the overall US population, so their retirement is far off. And undocumented immigrants pay for Social Security, but they’re not allowed to get benefits…”
In other words:
Babyboomers: “We need more immigration to support our social security payments! It’s all worth it because we will never have to actually live with the “diversity!” It certainly won’t be us, in our gated communities. A few of our grand-daughters being violently gang-raped by sub-80-IQ savages is a price worth paying for that gold club membership!”
I think you have been reading too many vacation pamphlets. Me and my group of boomers are barely scrapping by. We are still working and hope that we can afford a better grade of cat food and saltines to heat up on our one room hot plate. I certainly don’t live a luxurious lifestyle and I refuse to retire. I am currently trying to find an affordable apartment so I do agree that rents are way too high.
As for immigrants, every one that comes over brings 10 family members that suck social services, health care and make absolutely certain they are immediately on disability. This is Canada of course so the so-called “free” healthcare has them beating on the airport doors to get in.
Let’s have an article about entitled millennials who think socialism is the answer to everything.
When will Gen-X idiots stop writing ageist articles bashing Boomers?
When will stupid fools wonder why there may not be (but according to most reputable mathematicians there probably will be) enough in Social Security, without mentioning that just cutting half the 1,000 US military bases around the world would fund Social Security for the next 150 years?
When will this poor retarded individual who keeps writing these utterly putrescent pieces of ageist hate shit, stop writing and go back masturbating?
When will Gen-X take responsibility for their own nonsense?
Maybe on the 12th of Never. And that’s a long, long time. (You’d have to be a Boomer or a Greatest generation to get that reference, you piece of shit).
Cry me a fuckin’ river – do you write about anything other than your hard-on for boomers? You sound like Sarah Fucking Jeong
I’ll answer your question when you answer mine. When will Millennials quit voting for far left wing candidates? Why are you trying to alienate potential allies in the millions? I’ll laugh when someone like Kamala Harris, Keith Ellison or Pocahontas gets elected President.
Damn, what a disappointing RoK article! I could tell I was listening to a millennial with an entitlement mentality bitching about how people had no right to spend THEIR money that they EARNED because somehow it’s hurting him and his own.
Yes, yes, the Boomers fucked up. But so did the “Greatest Generation”. Kinsey wasn’t a boomer. Nor were Betty Freidan, Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, nor any of the crazies who were major post-war influences on the creation of “the Sixties”. Remember, Boomers didn’t CREATE the Sixties. They INHERITED them. They were mere FOLLOWERS of the REAL creators of the Sixties.
Also, Boomers didn’t assassinate the Kennedys or MLK. They didn’t get us into the Vietnam War. The didn’t develop LSD, amphetamines, or barbiturates.
To be clear. None of us creates the society we are born into. We inherit it and then spend our life responding and adapting to it while it adapts and responds to us.
First off we can not lump all Boomers in one box. Most Boomers do not have the wealth like the pictures of Boomers in this article do. Most Boomers work past retirement age (like we will do). They have to deal with heavy medical costs of suffering from cancer or if their love one has alzheimers or demetia. That is a lot of money. If they go into a nursing home that will drain their savings. I am not a Boomer so I have no reason to defend them. But I am a full time worker in the medical field so I know the reality of things. I am under no delusions and childishly believe that younger people a moral people or hard working. In fact my observations note that usually the younger the person is the more immoral and lazy they usually are. A young person that is not like that is the exception (and I have seen the exception too). No denying liberal Boomers shoot themselves in the foot. I am starting to see social security as a scam.
Only loosers blame others for their failure.
What a load of whiney, excuse ridden bullshit.
While you are complaining, someone with less talent, education, and privilege is out smarting and out working you.
Actualizing your potential is not accomplished by being mired in blaming others.
Please remain static so my spawn can pass you by.
The 60’s sucked, the 70’s were worse…You paint with too broad of a brush…my part of the Boomer Generation is the late 50’s, we supported Reagan, and many of us thought, and STILL think that Social Security, Medicare, and ALL the REST of the Social Welfare system is BULLSHIT. But it’s YOUR generation, the Millenials, who TOLERATE the F’ING Leftists who WILL bring all of us down. I went Toe to Toe with the F’ING Communists who used to attempt to argue with us in the studen union. You guys don’t…you tolerate the bullshit, and you have the balls to classify ALL of us as selfish. Fuck You. I do not plan on retiring, I will NOT take social security, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to accept medicare…I’m paying my way, I EARNED my money, I supported my family, my kids are NOT a couple of pussy moaners, as I’m reading here.
Aren’t you the generation that overwhelmingly votes for liberal democratic scum? And you blame your problems on boomers? Suck it up pussy – put down your crying towel and do something about it. Better off, go back to France and suck off your own welfare state
Obviously someone was never taught to respect their elders. While some of what’s said may hold true of some boomers, an indictment like this of all boomers truly borders on the obsurd. As for the myriad of Government social programs mentioned. Most if not all were up and running prior to the dawn of the “baby boomers”. Making boomers little more than involuntary participants, not self-serving creators of theses programs. To suggest that those who paid into Social Security and Medicare throughout their working lives should surrender the associated benefits is absurd. The real crime associated with these programs is that the Government squandered (spent) the surpluses amassed over the last 40-50 years (thanks to the tax paying boomers), leaving in place little more then an I.O.U. (aka, unfunded liability). Where do you suppose the money is going to come from to pay off this note? If you answered, from the pockets of the same people (taxpayers) who put the surplus there in the first place, go to the head of the class.
One comment in the article says that undocumented immigrants pay into the tax system but are not allowed to get the benefits….WRONG, WRONG, so obviously wrong that it’s not even worth straightening out the author who made this inane assertion.
As a boomer myself, I often call my generation the worst in history. But the so-called “greatest generation” of my parents comes in a close second. It was that generation, which won WWII, that was so full of hubris that it decided that the USA had the God-given right to run the world and tell all those ‘ferreners’ how to live. So they built a mammoth war machine with bases all over the world. And they decided to smash a few small countries to smithereens. And they changed the entire demographic of the country with the Hart-Celler Act of 1965. But my stupid generation, instead of turning things around, only made matters worse. Since 9/11, this country has become an unbearable shithole. Face it, young guys, you’re totally screwed.
If most these immigrants went away tomorrow, rent for a 2 bedroom wouldn’t be $1,400 a month because they bring in Indian/Pakistani H1B’s that stay 2 or 3 years (go home), pay no tax and their employer might pay for their stay…I remember in 2006, a 2 bedroom wouldn’t be anymore then $650 a month.
If your immigrant problem were rightfully dealt with, the babyboomer owners of these rental properties would realize NO AMERICANS are going to pay $1400 a month for a 2 bedroom/2 bath apartment, you would see those Move-In Deals…And I’m not talking about the ones near the ghetto. If most Americans born after 1975 knew how badly they’re getting SCREWED, they might do something about it.
Angry and finance stupid author…
Once the Boomers drop out of politics and the workforce over the next 10 years, their high positions will all be replaced by Muslims, women, and other Asians. At least the Boomers are somewhat keeping what’s left of ‘Western Civilization’ somewhat artificially intact and that’s saying a lot since this generation was a wrecking ball which got ramped up on 9/11 and again during the TARP bank bailouts/mortgage crisis of 2008. Both events, respectively, being ‘INSIDE JOBS’.
Yeah, you can say it was Woodrow Wilson and the Federal Reserve Act…Blah, blah, blah…But so much crap was done by these horrible people in just a short period of time from 2001 to 2011, that it makes the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and its Great Depression almost 20 years later look like a Sunday school picnic.
There is nothing scarier then both Muslims and women (both the whites mans mortal enemy) running the country simultaneously. That’s what they call ‘THE END TIMES’.
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SS is not the problem bro. Libertarians are cowards; gay; faggot; fattasses retards….don’t be one.”
But not others.
Almost any boomer guy I’ve met at any job the past 15 years is in some bad mood and are one of the few who can getaway with saying horrible things about other people. If anyone, white and male, born after 1975 talked like that, they would be fired instantaneously.
I’ve seen Boomers yell at children for screaming in a restaurant or public place but they’re the first ones to call the cops if you ‘correctly’ discipline your child. I remember when I was 6 years old in the 1980’s and remember people in their 60’s-70’s being more respectful towards children. Some were grouches (probably old WW2 era Jews) but nowhere like it is today!
A country where old men treat children like old carpet, will get their comeuppance in the nursing home!
so Cavalier is a cucked-boomer ! Life begins at conception, so for you 1965 = boomer-time! hahaha ! I am a modicum of time older than you Cavalier, so of course I receive the boomer label too. Not defending boomers; plenty of wrong can be attributed to their time. Alternatively, Trump is a 1st year Boomer, & he is the best I’ve seen at recognizing the political, institutional, economic mess we have, & attempting to fix it. Rather than condemn a group based on their inflexible age bracket, it is my opinion our political messes originated as naivety towards radical feminism which escalated in the 60’s. The political powers at the time were NOT boomers. Without radical feminism & without female voting rights, we would NOT be having any discussion now about the deterioration of the western world. I’ve also suffered plenty (divorce bias, affirmative action bias), by authority powers who would be of boomer age. Therefore not defending them.
The real target should be radical feminism & female voting rights.
I hate commie millennials. Killing them would be a pleasure. They have no right to live.
Blah blah blah. I say again.
It’s all just sour grapes from the Millennial Social Justice Crab Bucket.
You want people who have worked all their lives to just step back and let you take their place without doing the required amount of work.
If a bunch of dumba-$$, drug-addled boomers can figure it out, what’s stopping you, kid?
Being born in 1960 I would like to have hearth and home, wife and children before I die. The current cost of that under the 3 years pay rule is full employment at $100 per hour. LOL right. I think I could claim to be holocausted by the Boomers and their jew inspired real estate market. Even the Boomers are not safe from the excesses of the Boomers. So if working men like me never really stood a chance those who are younger are most certainly between a rock and a hard place. It is the human equivalent of John Calhoun’s mouse Utopia at work.
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This site is all about how men should take on personal responsibility for their lives, not blame others, be independent. Then it publishes all these article about how Boomers, Jews, women, undocumented aliens, blah-blah, are to blame for their problems.
The answer is simple: we need a euthanasia program.
Look at all the triggered old people in the comment section, super mad that they’re not really banging sweet Millennial pussy.