Red_Army wrote:If I can't shit on Baby Boomers then you can't shit on Millennials since you don't know what you're talking about. I've banged plenty of girls on the first date. The chain emails you receive from other coffin dodgers about asking for permission to look a girl in the eyes are not true.
Red Army, you said you were responding specifically to me.
1] I have never shit on Millennials, not here, not on any forum, and not in RL.
2] Shitting on a group because you think some of them did bad things, is not OK. OK, I get it many people are angry about the road that America took starting with Reagan. I am one of those people.
. . . But, I have 2 huge points I want to make about this.
. . . a] Not all Babyboomers agreed with that road being taken. Attacking me for this is a lot like attacking all Muslims because about 10% of them support violent jihad.
. . . b] I am one of the oldest Babyboomers, when Reagan was sworn in I was 35 yr old. Most other Babyboomers were younger than that. Why in Hell's name do you think that it was Babyboomers that caused America to go down that road? Why do you give a pass to the 2 older generations who were in power at the time and owned homes and didn't want to pay raising taxes on them? Why don't you say you hate them more?
. . . c] Under Reagan the FICA tax was raised by about x2 to convert the then 'pay as you go' system into a 'pay a head of time system'. Now there is close to $3T in the SS Trust Fund and those dollars are being used to pay my Soc. Sec. And I paid for my parents SS too.
I certainly voted in every election to stop the current decision to go down and to continue down the road that has led us to this point. Except for Clinton and Obama who I thought were not going to keep us going down that road, but that is what they did. For me the main problems are 1] the decision to gut the labor movement which allowed wages to stagnate while productivity and profits continued to rise. And 2] the acceptance of supply-side economics and now Neo-liberal economics as the Main Stream economic theory even though it has not delivered in any way what it said the results would be. It is a total failure, yet you-all here still believe the nonsense. (Except for a few)
So, Red Army, why do you hate Boomers but *not* the 2 preceding generations who were much more to blame for the mess America is in now?