Things boomers had at 30:
✓ House (paid half off)
✓ Car (paid off)
✓ Savings ($80k+)
✓ Job security
✓ Healthcare
✓ Pension waiting
Things millennials have at 30:
✓ Rent ($1,800/month)
✓ Car debt ($28k)
✓ Student debt ($37k)
✓ Job uncertainty
❌Healthcare affordability
❌Pension
Make it make sense.
@BH_Chronicles@cajun133@tokyo_111 That is exactly why boomers are a problem.
Everyone else works harder than them but they still demand socialist welfare handouts.
@BH_Chronicles@Auraphiaglobal@Govindtwtt Rural = highest suicide rates because there's no culture, economy, healthcare, or anything else humans need to thrive.
Only America's enemies want our citizens to suffer as hard as you.
Stop telling everyone to "just live somewhere cheaper."
How?
Live in your car? Illegal in many cities.
Live in an RV? Often illegal.
Pitch a tent? Criminalized.
We made housing unaffordable.
Then made survival illegal.
And call that order.
Tell me you know nothing about Boomers without actually telling me... this is pure fiction. We also didn't buy thousand dollar phones aba laptops and pay for 5 streaming services every month. We made coffee and food at home. We shared apartments with 4 other people and bought used furniture and kitchen appliances. We lived well beneath our means just to be able to save. Yes, we are not the same, and there is a reason for that. Buckle up buttercup and you can have it too.
@jeremyct If you don’t want social security gutted, vote blue. If you want healthcare to be affordable, vote blue, if you want life to be better, vote blue. Boomers did not have it easy, factor in inflation and what we paid is close to what you pay. Find a house far away from big cities
My dad retired at 59
I will not
He had a pension. I have a 401k I can barely fund.
He bought his house at 28.
I can't touch a down payment at 30.
He paid $90 a month for health insurance. I pay $430.
At dinner he told me I need to be smarter with money.
I nodded.
Didn't tell him his entire life was built on an economy that no longer exists.
Didn't tell him my generation is paying for his Social Security while ours gets gutted.
Didn't tell him the ladder he climbed got pulled up right after him.
Just passed the potatoes.
Make it make sense
@BH_Chronicles@Govindtwtt The stats don't lie.
Trump destroyed the economy, farms, manufacturing.
That's why only America's enemies support him being worse than Democrats
@ChrisBalszJr@Smirkley i’m talking about like, knitting stuff and selling it on etsy if they want some extra money. they have time for side gigs that full-time workers do not.
@missmayn Apparently you are unaware but old people cannot hustle 40 hours a week to survive
Nazis put rocks on POWs and made them carry them uphill and kept adding rocks til they died
Dont be Nazi
we’re supposed to have sympathy for retirees on “fixed incomes” when social security is inflation-adjusted, tax-free passive income and they have time to make extra money if they want to, while young people slaving 40-80 hours/week at their salaried jobs aren’t handed shit.
@GetMeOutOfKY@missmayn Social security is paid for by those contributing SS taxes right now. It's not a retirement fund where you contribute and you get it back.
@missmayn If you think "inflation-adjusted" keeps up with inflation, recheck your numbers. Couple that with the fact that social security was paid for by the same people collecting it.
Otherwise, I agree that a living wage should be paid to everyone.
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@BH_Chronicles@texasrunnerDFW Trump exploded the deficit by trillions using big gov taxes and socialism to redistribute wealth from Americans to his billionaire friends
44% of US homeowners are older than 60
She is effectively asking you to put 100% of the local county services tax burden on 56% of the people—people who are also still in the workforce paying income taxes, mortgages, and daycare tuition
This is horrible policy
@BH_Chronicles@texasrunnerDFW HAHAHA!! 🤣
Look how brutally you insult yourself lying in shame and defeat because Trump is the most corrupt president in American history
That's why only commie Russian traitors defend his unprecedented corruption
@Auraphiaglobal@Govindtwtt Is it really two hours or do you not want to work in an area where you do the same work but don't have the same luxuries in an urban setting?
Urban living is super expensive.
Suburban is getting there.
Rural is great. 30 minute commute and I still work for the DoD contracts.
@Govindtwtt Affordable housing doesn't matter if the nearest viable job is a two-hour commute away. The brief window of remote work gave people a real shot at balancing the math, but corporate RTO mandates completely pulled the ladder up on everyone.
@Govindtwtt I couldn’t afford a home in the city where my wife and I met. We moved to a smaller town and bought a home. Our payment on a small house on 40 acres was cheaper than our rent in the city. That’s how.