Original Blog Entry: The Generation Gap...In Facts

mikeintexas — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:58:07 GMT

Great article on MOTUS A.D. : Socialism: The Only Cure For Western Prosperity

If it makes anyone feel better and I don t know why it should Alexandrea Ocasio Cortez is not the only Millennial economically challenged.

Under capitalism man oppresses man, under socialism it s the other way around. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Apparently a good swath of the Millennial generation mis-misunderstands the facts and realities of finance and economics.

The rest of the article is about the generations alive today and their perceptions of how tough they had it, vs. the actual reality.

As a Boomer, I am so tired of being blamed for all the economic woes over the last fifty years. Sheesh, I couldn't even vote fifty years ago, didn't even have a driver's license. I saw a comment the other day in another forum that proclaimed our greed was why their generation had it so bad. Good grief. The article points out the true facts and the economics of various periods in recent history.

When I was first getting out on my own, I wasn't just wondering if I could get a good job with nearly 10% unemployment, but if even if I got a lousy job (Min. wage was $2/hr.), was I going to be able to fill up the tank of my old clunker...or if I could even FIND a station that had gasoline to sell.

I know my generation should bear *some* of the blame, but not nearly all of it...and besides, what's to be gained by placing blame? What's done is done. MY generation, however, even the most wussified of us, did not require safe places or pander to the .03% - if that- of the population that couldn't figure out which sex they were and we knew there were more pressing problems than gender-neutral pronouns. (I'm not sure that was a thing back then). Then again, most of we Boomers are tougher than a two dollar steak. (probably not as tough - on the whole - as the previous generation, the one forged in the fires of The Great Depression and WWII, but we had our own trials and fears, too)

Nabbed this from the comments section, another musical parody.

You've Gotta Love Millennials - Micah Tyler

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