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.
Bought our first home in 1974-5. A summer cottage, for $20K on almost an acre. We put $2000 down and the interest was 8.25%. We made 2 mortgage payments and took out a home improvement loan to winterize it for the coming New England winter that turned out to be a real bitch. We were never so happy… House, dog, cat, two cars. We WERE living the dream. I wasn’t making shit for money but we were having a blast.
….Now they have crying rooms FFS! Staring into smartphones all day hoping some bot likes their latest comment on the shitshow they have made for themselves. Eat peanuts you PJ wearing, double double swilling, avo toast eating whiners.
So we can take 1970 $1.60 minimum wage and multiply by 8.38 per Google to adjust for inflation and get an equivalent minimum wage today of $13.40 – but wait the federal minimum wage is 7.25 an hour. So, in 1970, you were starting off with almost twice the purchasing power of today and that is just minimum wage.
As an old graduate school professor mine pointed out 30 years ago, the difference between his generation 1970 and mine (1995), was that in 1970, there was still a manufacturing base in the United States. A high school graduate could go out and get a job in steel, textile, automotive or other manufacturing and have a union job with pension Starting at $18+ an hour. That is what we’ve lost in 2026, blue collar labor starting at an equivalent of a hundred dollars an hour.
I think that guy created a straw man just to have something to whine about.
No single person then or now buys a house earning minimum wage. In 1970 the average rent was $108/mo so two minimum wage workers could easily afford an apartment. Is that possible today?
The average annual wage for all hourly workers in 1970 was $3/hr, roughly twice the minimum wage.. The typical steelworker or autoworker made about $8/hr. And you could become a steelworker or autoworker without going to college or even finishing high school.
Both sides are exaggerating. Baby boomers didn’t have everything handed to them but if a boomer had a reasonable work ethic he did have slightly better opportunities to earn a middle class lifestyle without college. Today even college isn’t a guarantee.
I remember what the silent gen said about us long-haired, dope smoking boomers. Most of us turned out all right. Despite their odd ideas now, most of the today’s younguns will too,