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For them. Everyone else needs to use their bootstraps.

Suddenly boomers believe in a massive increase to social security taxes to pay for them.

I look forward to watching them die off.

Maybe it should be. Decoupling retirement and Wall Street would probably let us take a more honest look at the costs and benefits of for profit corporations in our society.

Actually, it kind of literally was. Though it's frustrating how common it is for people to share that misconception.

Or more accurately, social security should be a proper national pension plan. Fund it by increasing contribution rates and uncapping contributions.

I stick with my underpaid government job solely for my state pension. At 55, I can start to get 70% of my final salary guaranteed, with annual COLA adjustments. I may not be rich in retirement, but I can get by.

401k plans are ripe for abuse by predatory financial advisors.. a smile and a wink and your grandpa's retirement is getting drained.

They should get rid of that land line, you know they still have one

Nah, they should've sold their houses to Aquaman, and move...

Unfortunately, no. They're going to watch Fox News talk about how this is all Biden's fault and only the GOP can save them from suffering the same fate. They will continue to follow the same pied Piper that led them here.

Dear Boomers,

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. [YOU ARE HERE]

Yeah it's like Republicans are not going to help you, other than enflaming culture wars and talking about woke. When they funnel all taxes and assets to the wealthy, and deregulate all industries, and make vaccines illegal, etc, all you'll have left is a tattered red hat and a shopping cart full of your belongings.

In any case, it's going to overwhelmingly not be reaganites who are going homeless. If someone spent decades shilling for austerity and had it bite them in the ass, that's one thing, but this is the economic bottom dropping out, so it's mostly not those people.

If we made life significantly worse for our next generations, then they sure as hell should dance on our graves.

The article doesn't say, but I'm assuming the demographics of these newly homeless boomers is not predominantly white male. I still say boomer remover tho so i'm not exactly above generational warfare, it's just the worst boomers get hurt the least from poverty

Bruh they were and still are brainwashed by so much anticommunist propaganda. They had to survive in those material conditions, and if they made it they had to buy into the lie of American Exceptionalism for their prosperity and not the Dollar becoming the worlds reserve currency and propping up European Social Democracy, Dictators, and Kings. They reaped benefits they were actively being kept in the dark about, if they are waking up cause piss is tricking down their face, i will still celebrate them waking up. We need all the people we can to wake up and realize how the elite have stolen from the working class and are only taking more and more as we continue to kill our planet to give them more wealth...

Like there aren't babyboomers who also have no say in policies and those that haven't struggled their entire lives

The more things change, the more they stay the same

Instructions unclear, tried unsuccessfully multiple times and now I just feel like God hates me.