Proposals to lower voting age and to restrict old people voting

[Jezcoe]

@Oldandtired

Do you think the baby boomers had it easy. Not all of baby boomers could afford college as there weren’t the loan programs then as there are now. We also had to deal with the draft which put a lot of young men behind their classmates who were fortunate not to have had to serve. We had to deal with Craters down turn, with interest rates to buy a home at 20%. We also had high gas prices.
My husband and I did not buy our first home until we were in our forties we spent our first twenty years working, saving and making sure we did not have any debt.
The teaparty protests were to try and save you money and debt by not bailing our big companies when the only reason they were in trouble was their own greed.
We also know what paying tax’s are all about. When we were raising 6 kids there wasn’t the child tax credit. I can remember when we first started out our combined income was about 20,000.00 a year and on April 15 we always had to pay in a little more. At that time the 100.00 or so extra we had to pay in could have paid for the electric bill or a little extra food.
So don’t whine about having to wait to buy a house or paying off your student loan debt. At least you weren’t drafted and came home in a box.
As for your student loan debt well there are ways to start out without that debt. My husband and I saved a little money for each of our children. Two of my kids went into the military and that paid for their college. Two of my kids worked summers and during college to make up for what their college fund and scholarships did not pay. One kid would work for a year and college for a year and they had no debt when they graduated. The other child had very little loan debt. Two of my kids went to work right out of high school and with in a few years were making 6 figures.
Every generation have their crosses to bare. You can either make the best of the hand you are dealt or you can whine and blame someone else. One will get you ahead and one wont. And I have never blamed my parent or grandparents for the ways things were for me. I made my own choses and I had to live with the choices I made.
Life is good enjoy each and every day because before you know it you will be on the down hill side of it.

I never said all Boomers had it easy. But there were certain advantages that that the Boomers had that they are working to deny the younger generation from having.

As far as the tea party thing. That is rewriting history. It wasn’t started because of corporate bailouts. It was started because of bailing out people who took bad loans. The people who made bad loans got off Scott free.

As I have said before. I am at the tail end if gen X. I am sandwiched between two lathe generations. My generation has been pretty useless in fighting for our interests. Basically resigned that social security won’t be here for our retirement because there was never enough of us to ensure politically that it gets protected.

I have lived my entire life life like that and have planned accordingly.

I acknowledge though that I was not screwed like the millenials were. I had it much better than them.

I can at least admit it.