This guy has had enough of the crying Liberals, especially the younger ones, always blaming the Boomers for all their woes.
One lie that they are particularly fond of repeating is that the Boomers had everything easy and basically handed to them on a plate despite my very own memories of having to bust my fucking ass for everything amid repeated recessions, inflation and downturns.
And that was AFTER the 70’s!
Pay particular attention to what the minimum wage and mortgage rates were back in 1970.
He brings the numbers and the well deserved cursing.
Outfu*fing standing!
Notice there was no “vacation” allotment or mention of “work/life balance”? Folks worked, moonlighted(more work) and pulled a Saturday too…..no bitchin, whining or accolades needed.
MC
So I just filed for Social Security. I used to mow lawns and, in fact, bought my first car thanks to mowing lawns starting at 12.
What 12 year old mows lawns today, that’s child abuse. Now, grown men do that as a career.
Who made them this way?
The kids do have it tougher. We don’t teach them to work when young. The jobs aren’t there. It’s child abuse if you have a kid out mowing, let alone digging post holes, fixing fence, or changing the oil. I talked with a teacher at the local community college and they have to teach the kids to show up to class on time. I’m taking a welding class now and I listen a bit to the kids, they are entitled. But who made them this way? To think our ancestors used to hunt mammoths with rocks and sticks.
As a PFC in 1971, Uncle Sammy paid me $138 a month to be available 24/7/365 and none of this time-and-a-half business.
Now as far as his “your bitch ass” comment, here’s a prime example of what that looks like: https://x.com/shellshockkk/status/2023529321457926518
Rhymes with “runt” ya follow?
how much did stupid blow on her tats ? or the metal junk in her face ?
we are headed back to the damn stone age with these morons.
they have no idea what it means to work or even build anything.
and it morons just like her that voted in the nightmare in NYC.
FREE everything for everyone !!!!
yeah, no. you going to work the fields you clown. or face the wall.
Maybe not precise but it uses the same logic as the crybabies do. I guess the butthurt comes from misunderstanding, people didn’t have shit on min wage back then, but people had plenty if they worked long hard hours…much like today.
We weren’t slammed with leftist ideology and communistic redistribution of wealth, yet. Fraud & waste weren’t at today’s levels. Few had college degrees but we were still making shit, making everything, plenty of good paying skilled jobs. I do sympathize with this generation, they are fucked financially but open your eyes, stop the socialist fantasy and you might see things improve.
I started “helping” my dad on a concrete and block crew at 14. got a whole 5 bucks a day back then. and I busted my ass off too. by 17 I was getting 1.65 per hour
doing that. way better than any gym workout for sure.
got married in 1981. remember RED ,WHITE AND BROKE ? yeah.
E4/5’s didn’t make much at all. I have skipped more meals than you can guess
so my kids could eat back then.
then there the always , get gas or milk problem. and if you lived off post?
well, the rent went up EVERY time your pay did.
fucking kids today have no idea just how “easy” it was for most of us.
hell after I got out, work one full time job, and 2 part time jobs.
vacation ? What was that? and that with no cable TV, or eating out, a land line.
or any of the other shit these clowns NEED today.
I wasn’t able to buy my first home until I was 38 years old
One thing on top of his argument: there was no such thing as a 30 year mortgage. The term in the 1970s was 15 years…
To be fair, a dollar was worth more back then. It’s value has been denuded something fierce. We are still in a housing bubble too. Country wide, the median home price is like $329K, but it’s $420k in my region.
They also blame the wrong generation. The idiot politicians that did this to us aren’t boomers, and still aren’t. Most of them are the Silent generation. Even Trump is a late Silent, not a boomer. All those fossils in Congress – Shumer, Pelosi, Sanders – all Silents.
What I see from Millenials like my kids is that they want to buy a nice place, often new, instead of the beat up starter homes we bought. You can still score them around where I live for $240-250k or so. Still, my kids figured out how to do it – buying a crap starter home, selling it and moving up.
Make dumb moves, you’ll have to eat some shit sammiches to recover. It’s always been thus.
I don’t believe you could get a mortgage without down payment. So that monthly payment was likely lower, because you had already saved up a few thousand ahead of time. If you could manage to do that. There was no way I could afford a house until after I got married and we had two incomes to work with. And that was in the early ’80s. I was the sole earner in our family probably less than 10 years of the nearly 50 we’ve been married.