You Baby Boomers Screwed Us!!

You had your "60s" You had your drugs, sex, socialist programs. Then you took everything that your parents had learned from the depression and WWII and flushed it down the drain. You pushed your social programs onto this country. You bankrupted this country.

No elected official wants to be the one to say that now that bill has come due. That we had our fun with all our social programs. Putting Social Security into the general fund because hey, look at all the money in it. Well you 50 somethings, you blew it. You spent your SS and now you are looking at retirement and guess what, you already spent it. Oh well, you Baby Boomers are a big enough group that you can just vote and take it from your kids now with families and raising kids of their own. Now why did you go and spend it all years ago. You had your fun in college with all your hippie socialist programs you threw at the country, and in spite of what your parents were saying. But all these fuzzy feel good social programs had to be paid somehow.

So here we are now. Banks dropping like flies, why? Because you just don't get it. "Help the lower income families buy a house" so guess what. You came up with sub prime loans. You convinced people they could afford their balloon payments on a house they couldn't hope to afford. Then you go and try to pull the wool over your kids generation by not teaching us how interrest rates work in school. Oh, but you made sure we all had our heads pumped full of self esteem classes and that we needed to save the whales.

When you entered the workforce all those years ago companies gave you pensions. You entered a workforce that valued its employees. Your parents new what was going on, had lived through the Great Depression. But by the time your generation was running things and my generation was entering the workforce you took it all away. You took away the pensions from your kids and gave them 401Ks that reinvest into the market so your companies could use the money instead of saving it for the loyal employees that had worked for you for years. Oh, but you still kept your pensions to retire on. So now my generation is working for companies that offer no pensions, but put a little money into your 401k for you that is lost the second it goes in. Companies Baby Boomers now run that don't value good employees and don't realize that a companies greatest asset isn't its buildings or product but its employees. So my generation jumps from job to job, from crappy employer to crappy employer looking for someplace that treats its employees like real people. We loose what our employer puts in to our 401k because we couldn't stand to stay long enough to be "vested". And you blame this behavior on us because it couldn't be your fault for how you treat us. All of you that run these companies and wonder why you can't keep any new blood, anyone from the younger generation but all your older employees from your generation stay. But you don't like that either because now you will have to pay your generation the pensions they were promised in a few years when they retire unless you can figure out how to fire them or get out of it like some companies have. This is the work force that you have given your kids. Not the one your parents gave to you is it.

You didn't want us to learn to think for ourselves. When you became the teachers instead of the students you thought there were more important things to teach your kids instead of the 3Rs. You changed education from teaching into babysitting. How, you ask? Well, you called it a "Right." Then you changed it from a right for the students to learn in class to a right for the one or two troublemakers to not get kicked out of class and disrupt the learning for everyone else. I went through school watching teachers spend more time trying to make the one or two kids behave then teaching the rest of us what we were there to learn. You punish the little kid who brings a little action figure with a little plastic gun to school and call it "Zero Tolerance" but you don't kick out the kids to take the "Right" of education away from every other kid in school. Huh?!?! Because of these decisions you made, you turned a High School Diploma into a piece of paper that shows we survived 12 years of day care.

You didn't want us to learn to count change. Try giving a penny to some kid at a register AFTER they have already typed in the amount you gave them. Try asking a group of seniors at high school what the difference is between simple and compound interest. Try just asking them what is 10% off of $10.00 is!! Well, you got what you wanted. So this is the generation that is going to pay your SS checks!! A generation that is up to their ears in Credit Card Dept. A generation that supports a Pay Day Loan and Check Cash on every corner because they can't figure out they are paying over 300% interest!! That the $500 they keep turning over on a short term loan costs $1500 a year in interest plus the original $500 they have to pay back.

This is the generation you gave me for my peers. They look at me like I am a freak when I have to show them how to count your change because the computer went down. They think I'm not "cool" because I own every vehicle I have right now, no payments to a bank, their mine. They just are not "new" ones. They look confused when I say I wish I could afford something that they just put on one of their Credit Cards. They can afford it, they just got a credit increase and make the minimum payment each month. I am scared to death of the day that this "House of Credit cards" falls down. I look at the depression we are sliding into and hope it stops before all this dept bites us all.

I am fighting an uphill battle. You Baby boomers have had 40 years to preach your lies. I am only 30, trying to save for a family and retirement with no SS or a pension to plan on. Putting my money in a 401K that is loosing it as fast as I put it in because your social plans have crushed us.

So all you Baby Boomers PLEASE just go away and play golf and drink your tea and let the rest of us try to pick up the pieces and put something of our country back together. Leave us alone. You had your chance, and you screwed us!