OK Boomer

[MAGA MAN]

They failed for producing the millenial and gen z generations. The most snowflake generations in history.

Speak for yourself. Both my children are more adult than I was at their ages.

[Sirthinksalot]

it would be so ironic if Katzgar and Guano died before Trump's re-election.....

Agreed, but it would be even better if they both lived to see Trump get reelected and Ruth Buzzi Ginsburg die.

[Callinectes]

Reaping the benefits like a good little socialist.

You’re damn right I’m reaping them, I paid into that scheme for almost a half century (got a military pension too, it’s pretty sweet!)

[StoneByStone]

Is that why Trump became President?

Trump became president because the DNC nominated an establishment Centrist. If they nominated an actual Leftist, they would have won.

[cawacko]

Trump became president because the DNC nominated an establishment Centrist. If they nominated an actual Leftist, they would have won.

Question for you. How many people do you find share your leftist economic views and your separatist racial views? (and that question can refer to people of any race, not just white people)

[domer76]

You want to know why everyone hates you, Boomers?

Are you sure?

OK...I'll tell you (borrowed from imagr):

You are the worst generation. You decimated the United States economically and ecologically after decades of abusing resources. The generation before you saved the world in WWII and created the foundation for an era of prosperity through a strong social safety net, and Big Government, and this is how you repay them? And you're such sponges. All you did was leech off the generation before you, and you're leeching off the generations after you. And even though we are trying to clean up your mess, you treat us like imbeciles glued to our phones. And what really sucks is how you pretend you're these deep thoughtful people who defy distracting technology that turns you stupid, despite being the generation that grew up with the invention of television and who got duped into sharing Russian-generated propaganda on social media. Yeah, our generations have idiots and morons in it, but at least we call them out. We "cancel" them. We don't delude ourselves into thinking we were some sort of golden age of perfection that solved all the world's problems with Vietnam protests (both for and against) and Civil Rights protests (also, both for and against); it wasn't! You're just a bunch of spoiled brats. And not to mention all the years of homophobia, xenophobia, and racism that we are still dealing with today because y'all didn't kill it when you had the chance. You're so entitled. And I think the thing I hate most about you is your textbook conservative agenda. How we should "uphold family values", how a lack of all restraint somehow makes businesses work better, how taxes are supposedly the worst tragedy ever inflicted on the economy, how billionaires are rich simply because they worked hard. Well what the fuck have you actually done? We are doing our best to come up with ideas to rebuild the economy; don't see you helping out! You wanna help? Stop being wasteful. Stop sharing propaganda on social media. STOP TALKING. Oh and by the way, sending people into space didn't make you Jesus Christ, and you couldn't do it without paper-clipping a few Nazis to the US after the war. Oh wait, that's right...you all want to force everyone to worship Jesus Christ because atheists and agnostics are just "idiots" or "terrorists". Well who the fuck are you to talk down to anyone? You sent the economy into recession twice in the last 20 years, which isn't nearly as bad as all the wars you started. Say, how's that Afghanistan War going?????? We've only been there 18 fucking years.

But you know what? I could forgive all of it -ALL OF IT- if you weren't such flaming hypocrites. That's the worst part. You started out as a counterculture that stood against everything you've become today. And now you're just a bunch of big, fat, diabetic, sad hypocrites.

*SIGH*

Well, see ya douchebags. You're welcome for the Medicare and Social Security, fuckers.

And what generation are you?

[Cinnabar]

You want to know why everyone hates you, Boomers?

Are you sure?

OK...I'll tell you (borrowed from imagr):

You are the worst generation. You decimated the United States economically and ecologically after decades of abusing resources. The generation before you saved the world in WWII and created the foundation for an era of prosperity through a strong social safety net, and Big Government, and this is how you repay them? And you're such sponges. All you did was leech off the generation before you, and you're leeching off the generations after you. And even though we are trying to clean up your mess, you treat us like imbeciles glued to our phones. And what really sucks is how you pretend you're these deep thoughtful people who defy distracting technology that turns you stupid, despite being the generation that grew up with the invention of television and who got duped into sharing Russian-generated propaganda on social media. Yeah, our generations have idiots and morons in it, but at least we call them out. We "cancel" them. We don't delude ourselves into thinking we were some sort of golden age of perfection that solved all the world's problems with Vietnam protests (both for and against) and Civil Rights protests (also, both for and against); it wasn't! You're just a bunch of spoiled brats. And not to mention all the years of homophobia, xenophobia, and racism that we are still dealing with today because y'all didn't kill it when you had the chance. You're so entitled. And I think the thing I hate most about you is your textbook conservative agenda. How we should "uphold family values", how a lack of all restraint somehow makes businesses work better, how taxes are supposedly the worst tragedy ever inflicted on the economy, how billionaires are rich simply because they worked hard. Well what the fuck have you actually done? We are doing our best to come up with ideas to rebuild the economy; don't see you helping out! You wanna help? Stop being wasteful. Stop sharing propaganda on social media. STOP TALKING. Oh and by the way, sending people into space didn't make you Jesus Christ, and you couldn't do it without paper-clipping a few Nazis to the US after the war. Oh wait, that's right...you all want to force everyone to worship Jesus Christ because atheists and agnostics are just "idiots" or "terrorists". Well who the fuck are you to talk down to anyone? You sent the economy into recession twice in the last 20 years, which isn't nearly as bad as all the wars you started. Say, how's that Afghanistan War going?????? We've only been there 18 fucking years.

But you know what? I could forgive all of it -ALL OF IT- if you weren't such flaming hypocrites. That's the worst part. You started out as a counterculture that stood against everything you've become today. And now you're just a bunch of big, fat, diabetic, sad hypocrites.

*SIGH*

Well, see ya douchebags. You're welcome for the Medicare and Social Security, fuckers.

There’s nothing “normal” about having a middle class. Having a middle class is a choice that a society has to make, and it’s a choice we need to make again in this generation, if we want to stop the destruction of the remnants of the last generation's middle class. Despite what you might read in the Wall Street Journal or see on Fox News, capitalism is not an economic system that produces a middle class. In fact, if left to its own devices, capitalism tends towards vast levels of inequality and monopoly. The natural and most stable state of capitalism actually looks a lot like the Victorian England depicted in Charles Dickens’ novels.

At the top there is a very small class of superrich. Below them, there is a slightly larger, but still very small, "middle" class of professionals and mercantilists - doctor, lawyers, shop-owners - who help keep things running for the superrich and supply the working poor with their needs. And at the very bottom there is the great mass of people - typically over 90 percent of the population - who make up the working poor. They have no wealth - in fact they're typically in debt most of their lives - and can barely survive on what little money they make.

So, for average working people, there is no such thing as a middle class in “normal” capitalism. Wealth accumulates at the very top among the elites, not among everyday working people. Inequality is the default option.

You can see this trend today in America. When we had heavily regulated and taxed capitalism in the post-war era, the largest employer in America was General Motors, and they paid working people what would be, in today's dollars, about $50 an hour with benefits. Reagan began deregulating and cutting taxes on capitalism in 1981, and today, with more classical "raw capitalism," what we call "Reaganomics," or "supply side economics," our nation's largest employer is WalMart and they pay around $10 an hour.

This is how quickly capitalism reorients itself when the brakes of regulation and taxes are removed - this huge change was done in less than 35 years. The only ways a working-class "middle class" can come about in a capitalist society are by massive social upheaval - a middle class emerged after the Black Plague in Europe in the 14th century - or by heavily taxing the rich.

French economist Thomas Piketty has talked about this at great length in his groundbreaking new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. He argues that the middle class that came about in Western Europe and the United States during the mid-twentieth was the direct result of a peculiar set of historical events. According to Piketty, the post-World War II middle class was created by two major things: the destruction of European inherited wealth during the war and higher taxes on the rich, most of which were rationalized by the war. This brought wealth and income at the top down, and raised working people up into a middle class.

Piketty is right, especially about the importance of high marginal tax rates and inheritance taxes being necessary for the creation of a middle class that includes working-class people. Progressive taxation, when done correctly, pushes wages down to working people and reduces the incentives for the very rich to pillage their companies or rip off their workers. After all, why take another billion when 91 percent of it just going to be paid in taxes?

This is the main reason why, when GM was our largest employer and our working class were also in the middle class, CEOs only took home 30 times what working people did. The top tax rate for all the time America's middle class was created was between 74 and 91 percent. Until, of course, Reagan dropped it to 28 percent and working people moved from the middle class to becoming the working poor.
Other policies, like protective tariffs and strong labor laws also help build a middle class, but progressive taxation is the most important because it is the most direct way to transfer money from the rich to the working poor, and to create a disincentive to theft or monopoly by those at the top.

History shows how important high taxes on the rich are for creating a strong middle class. If you compare a chart showing the historical top income tax rate over the course of the twentieth century with a chart of income inequality in the United States over roughly the same time period, you’ll see that the period with the highest taxes on the rich - the period between the Roosevelt and Reagan administrations - was also the period with the lowest levels of economic inequality.

You’ll also notice that since marginal tax rates started to plummet during the Reagan years, income inequality has skyrocketed.

https://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/20...;normal”

And the article goes on and well worth the read.

But what gets me is that the folks who benefitted off of Progressive policies now support Republican-lite establishment Democratic corporate owned representatives.

[StoneByStone]

Question for you. How many people do you find share your leftist economic views and your separatist racial views? (and that question can refer to people of any race, not just white people)

So far, I've only met six other Americans who I'd consider both Social Democrat and Ethnic Nationalist. However, in Europe, this is quickly becoming the norm. In Europe, the Right is actually very liberal. European Righties will often say things like, Europe needs to stay white so we can keep our welfare states and have rights for women and gays.

[PostmodernProphet]

Trump became president because the DNC nominated an establishment Centrist. If they nominated an actual Leftist, they would have won.

you should try that......I'm all for it.....how about a Bernie/AOC ticket?.....

[StoneByStone]

you should try that......I'm all for it.....how about a Bernie/AOC ticket?.....

While I'm not a fan of Sanders or AOC, I know they would slaughter Trump.

[PostmodernProphet]

Question for you. How many people do you find share your leftist economic views and your separatist racial views? (and that question can refer to people of any race, not just white people)

I'm picturing Aryan tattoos and a porkpie hat......

[ThatOwlWoman]

There is no economic argument against taxing the wealthy to pay for things like health care and education. Instead, there are emotional arguments meant to manipulate by playing on emotions like jealousy and resentment. It's hard for highly emotional people like that to distinguish between the economics and the emotion; for them, everything is guided by their emotions. Specifically, self-preservation...which is inherently a Boomer trait. "I got mine so fuck you", "greed is good", "he who dies with the most toys wins" are how Boomers fucked everything up.

I'm a Boomer and I don't believe any of that greed-is-good shit. A good lot of us don't.

There ARE economic reasons why those with great wealth should be taxed at a higher rate. Citizens who are not struggling to keep the lights on, pay their bills, feed their kids, pay for medical bills -- and who are able to show up at work daily because they can afford cab fare when their car breaks down -- are beneficial to society. People who can afford to buy things other than bare necessities make the economy work for everyone. A better educated populace boosts the economy as well. All of these things make it easier for the wealthy to continue to prosper.

[PostmodernProphet]

While I'm not a fan of Sanders or AOC, I know they would slaughter Trump.

I doubt they could win any state except California.....

[reagansghost]

not buying all this LV

I raged against the machine until around 30, full-blown counter culture/hippie, when had to make some money to raise a Gen Xer. So that means I sold younger generations out, took all the money and ran, right?

you're coming off very angry and lashing out, blaming the older generation for all the evils of the world

that's the same thing the boomers were doing in the 60's, 70's, and into the 80's

direct your rage directly where it belongs, the Elite Class

[cawacko]

Far be it for me to stick up for Boomers (because you do suck) but two generations from now people will look at Gen Xers, Millenials and Gen Z and say they were racist, homophonic, sexist and on and on because times do change. So it’s funny to hear someone proclaim themselves so woke, and a supporter of cancel culture, today when future people will call you all of the above