@seawulf575 “I remember growing up and being taught to show respect to others as well as for myself.”
Is that why your generation has handed ours a multi-trillion dollar debt? Is that why when there was a budget surplus, instead of using that money to pay down some of the debt we were going to inherit, your generation decided to fund tax breaks for yourselves that lead to a massive explosion in debt for our generation—all the while allowing our infrastructure to fall into disrepair and decay? That’s a funny way of “showing respect to others.”
Is that why your generation has trashed the planet and created a climate that’s going to produce devastating storms, droughts, floods, climate refuges and wars? So you could have cheap gas, SUV’s and crew cab pickup trucks? Or filled our oceans with microplastics so future generations can enjoy their tuna laced with particles from the shopping bag you used in 1995 that one time when you bought that one thing that you nor anyone else will remember because of how unimportant it was. Thanks for that.
Is that why your generation undid all of the hard work put in place by earlier generations to create financial safeguards on the banking and investment sectors to prevent abuses and collapses? Is that why your generation undid regulations designed to prevent the media from coalescing into what we have today: with just 6 companies (Comcast, Disney, AT&T, Fox, CBS and Viacom) owning over 90% of all media (down from 50 companies in 1983)? So now our generation gets to choose to have our news framed in either pro-corporate propaganda that’s socially liberal, or pro-corporate propaganda that’s socially conservative?
Is that why our generation inherited more incarcerated people per capita than any other nation on Earth? Is that why your generation has supported policies that have resulted in financial inequality greater than before the great depression? Is that why your generation has produced an economy where our generation is likely to earn less than yours?
And then for your generation to have the fucking gaul to label Millennials as not having a good work ethic and being disrespectful… I would say that on the whole, the Baby Boomer generation is like a psychopath that feels no empathy for others and is totally self-absorbed in short term joys at the expense of other generations.