Gavin McInnis on Baby Boomers

[Eric the Green]

(05-25-2016, 12:27 AM)MillsT_98 Wrote:

(05-25-2016, 12:09 AM)Galen Wrote:

(05-24-2016, 04:56 AM)taramarie Wrote: The last sentence regarding the prophets makes me also wonder about their archetype for my generation and how they are always going on about us as if we are the hope for the future and never go on the same way about xers. They are the parents of older millies and we are their trophy kids. I will watch your video tomorrow as it is a day off work for me and i am seriously worn out atm. Yeah i hope my generation gives me a pleasant surprise. The American millies anyway. NZ millies are living up to our role fortunately and it has been wonderful to play a part in it. Kiwi millies are competent and know team work gets a job done faster and especially without complaint. I can only hope American millies listen to xers and do the same.

You have to understand that Generation X did not turn out as planned, they never realized that the better part of an entire generation would not revere them.  The Milles are simply the tax livestock they hope to bleed dry right along with Generation X.  Right now the younger Millies are in the process of having life kick the shit out of them until they get a clue.

Yeah that sucks for me. Looks like I'm going into thousands of dollars in debt and being leeched off of by the Boomers who suck the Social Security net dry and leaving none for us. And the ones who won't retire have all the good jobs that us Millies are trying to get degrees for.

You have good points, from your point of view, now. From the long term, though, you might like it that boomers are pushing back the retirement ages and increasing lifespans, when you get there not so long from now. The real target of millies often is, and should be, the economics ideology set up by GI Reagan and Silent Koch Brothers and their cohorts. Government is not the solution, it is the problem; cried Reagan. Core Gen Xers like Galen believed him and went along with him. But blue boomers are the leaders and blue millies are following them in the movement to overturn the Reagan nightmare. Without liberal government, big business has full sway to do the things that have wrecked opportunities for millennials like yourself.

Supply-side trickle-down economics creates inequality, because wealthy CEOs are allowed to maximize power for themselves with lower tax rates and regulations. Liberal programs that redistribute wealth and invest in long-term growth are cut or destroyed by Reaganomic policies. Wages have stayed flat while costs have risen for young people starting out. Republican Reaganoids refuse to support reducing student loan debt and investing in education. Free trade and high tech-automation have destroyed jobs, with no liberal programs to offset or reverse these changes. The facts are clear that inequality and middle class decline corresponds to the Reagan counter-revolution and its continued dominance even during Democratic administrations. Cutting social security as Republicans want is no answer to the fear that millies and Xers might not get it; a few adjustments will save it.

Blue boomers and millies, instead of blaming and knocking each other, need to join forces with all those of all generations who want to overthrow Reaganomics so that progress can happen again. Generational blaming is not the answer; better politics and policies are the answer.