Does anyone remember stagflation? The oil embargo?
It's a myth that "boomers" made out like bandits. The economy began tanking as the oldest "boomers" were just starting to enter the job market, beginning with stagflation, which was followed by the oil embargo, as well as the move to "outsource", "offshore" and "downsize" the manufacturing base which all but eliminated good paying jobs that didn't require a college degree. (Just 26% of "boomers" went to college. That's went to college. The percentage that actually earned a degree is lower. Compare this to the 75% of young people who have enrolled in college.)
According to several sources, roughly 80% of the wealth attributed to "boomers" is owned by just 20% of that cohort, with the rest of that wealth owned by another 30%. Half of all "boomers" have no financial assets, in no small part due to the destruction of the manufacturing base.
That aforementioned 20% are the people living in those affluent suburbs. I suspect that they are also the children and grandchildren of the wealthiest members of previous generations.
Of course, the powers that should not be have been pushing the anti-"boomer" narrative since that generation began entering the job market, although the reasons for why "boomers" are to be singled out has changed over years, and it has been nothing but a psyop intended to keep people from focusing on the real culprits. Yes, some of those culprits are "boomers" and some are among the few remaining members of the "silent" or so-called "greatest" generation, but the old are now giving way to the culprits in the "Gen-X" and "Millenial" generation... the children who were born into those affluent suburban homes now owned by "boomers". Bill Gates is a "boomer" and Jeff Bezos is a borderline "boomer", but Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Stephen Cohen, Bill Ackman and Mark Zuckerberg (to name a few) are members of the younger generations. The median age in the House of Representatives is now 57. The youngest "boomers" are now 61.
It's time for all of us to reject this divide and control narrative intended to continue destroying the family structure by turning the young against the old. This destruction, by the way, began during the latter half of the 19th century when the nuclear family replaced the extended family as the ideal household. So yes, let's begin recreating those extended family, not only because it's the right thing to do for our younger relatives but also because it takes a family to create generational wealth. Ever notice how we talk about the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers or the Kennedys? Those with the most make sure to keep their families strong while selling the myth of the rugged individual to the rest of us.
And if we don't reject this narrative? Then "Gen-X" better start preparing because they will become the scapegoat once the "boomers" have all died out. Don't forget that the "boomers" were also primed to hate their parents and grandparents generations. "Never trust anyone over 30!"
This quote is a gem: "the powers that should not be have been pushing the anti-"boomer" narrative since that generation began entering the job market, although the reasons for why "boomers" are to be singled out has changed over years, and it has been nothing but a psyop intended to keep people from focusing on the real culprits."
Antiboomer is mostly a propaganda theme to justify looting the Social Security Trust Fund. The SS Trust Fund which is a real thing, a sovereign debt of the US.
Trust Fund will be transferred to Wall Street for a privatized plan and benefits will be drastically cut.
Thomas, here's the truth about 'Socialist insecurity' that you and others here were never told about:
Social Security (really INSECURITY) IS welfare - it IS nothing more than an engineered Ponzi pyramid scam created by FDR.
What people don't realize is that the money taken from their paychecks for ss is used to pay the PREVIOUS generation of workers their 'benefits'...your withholding for ss pays for a previous worker, NOT you - that's the reality of the Social Insecurity scam that's pulled on people.
And Congress CAN and DOES use the money in ss for ANYTHING that they want - they've been doing such for easily over 50+ years.
Don't believe me?..then pay attention to the following testimony given on May 27th 1976 by W.Allen Wallis, Chairman of the 1975 Advisory Council on Social Security before the Joint Economics Committee:
"Many people think that the Social Security taxes taken out of their wages and sent to Washington each month provide for their old-age pensions and other Social Security benefits.
This is simply not the case. Those taxes are levied on workers in order to pay benefits to people who already retired and are drawing their Social Security pensions..
When you pay Social Security taxes you are in no way making provision for your own retirement. You are paying the pensions of those who are already retired.
Once you understand this, you see that whether you will get the benefits you are counting ok when you retire, depends on whether the Congress will levy enough taxes, borrow enough, or print enough money, and whether it will authorize the level of benefits you are counting on.
The situation is in no way analogous to putting money each month into a private insurance company which invests it and undertakes to pay you an annuity.
Misunderstanding of the pay-as -you-go nature of Social Security is widespread among journalists and the public. Indeed this Misunderstanding seems to have been deliberately cultivated sometimes, in the belief that it makes the Social Security System more palatable to the public."
Understand this: your SS taxes are NOT held in some special account for you like, growing until your retirement or disability. Your "Social Security Account Number" does not in any way designate an account in which money has been placed and invested on your behalf. Your SS taxes (excuse me, "contributions") go directly to the government's general fund (via, of course, the FED).
Here's the proof of the above by several key legal rulings:
[SS taxes] are to be paid into the Treasury at Washington, and thereafter are subject to appropriation like public monies generally. [SSctaxes] are not ear-marked in any way...
-- Delivering v. Davis, 301 U.S. 619
They [SS taxes] enter the Treasury as free funds set apart to no special use and subject to be applied to any congressional appropriation.
-- Stewart Machine Company v. Davis, 301 U.S. 548 (1937)
"This [SS] tax collects money from individuals and puts it into the Federal Treasury, to be used for any purpose whatsoever..."
-- Charles E. Wyzanski, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, 1937
You have no "account" in the true financial sense. Your SS "contributions" are not invested; they are SPENT. By law, the Federal government is forbidden to hold corporate stocks and bonds; the principal investment of private insurance firms.
Finally, no one is "entitled" to SS "benefits" as a property right under the law. You have no contractual guarantee of "benefits" as you do with a private insurance company. You can't will your "benefits" to your children as a private insurance plan. Congress can disallow your "benefits" at any time, or even shut down the entire program tomorrow and you would have utterly no legal recourse (Fleming v. Nestor, 80S.Ct.1367, (1960)).
None of the above is conjecture or theory - it's history and fact.
Americans have been hoodwinked and scammed by FDR's regime collectivist creation of SS and for that matter all the rest of the welfare cancer that's issued forth as a result.
SS and all the rest of the miasma of welfare WILL come to an end sooner than later because there's no regime in existence that can continue to endlessly fund it through continual tax levying via workers, especially when the population of workers are overwhelmed by those holding their hands out for welfare.
It's only a matter of time before the whole rotten edifice of welfare collapses in upon itself.
Be prepared to live without SS and the rest of welfare.
You wrote a lot there but you don't seem to understand the nature of government debt.
A lot of the money the government spends is borrowed. Some is borrowed by Chinese buying US Treasury Bonds. Some is borrowed from people paying FICA taxes either as employers or employees which are a different kind of government bonds. The bonds held in the Trust Fund are sufficient to cover spending on SS until 2033 or so.
How is the debt owed to workers in the Social Security Trust Fund different from bonds owed to the Chinese?
really good piece. the people playing the generation blame game will in turn be blamed. I don't think any boomer aside from the boomers who had inherited and generational wealth are to blame for anything. And except for the arrogance and stupidity the generational wealth boomers just did what anyone would have done in their situation.
"The people playing the generation blame game will in turn be blamed."
Exactly!
That this hasn't dawned on them does not speak well for their abiliity to look life in the eye. Boomer Blame is Lame! It's also counter-productive. But that too has yet to dawn on them.
very counter productive, solves nothing and creates hate, distrust etc. We really don’t need that. We already have enough. Thanks at least in great measure to the great replacement operation.
Yes, thank you for this. The anti-boomer thing has gotten as out of control as the anti-woman thing. Making enemies out of people who just aren't. Some while back, before I left social media altogether for a year, there was a guy writing articles about how they're going to have to kill all the boomers and steal their shit.
Boomers didn't decide how the economy was going to get structured any more than zoomers decided it was a good idea to stream porn into everyone's homes 24/7.
Those of us who remain sane need to withdraw from this slopfest and stop giving it oxygen, and figure out ways to build our own communities offline. I don't know how to accomplish this but there's got to be a way.
Yes. I do. I remember it well. No one had credit cards back then. Interest rates were 12 and 14 percent. My parents never owned a home. These young people have been fed a pack of lies.
We all have... that is the point I think. Enemies are easy to manufacture and every government does it. Get people to start rejecting political correctness and start seeing solutions evolve before your very eyes. White people, the current demon have to see things as they are. They are their own worse enemy and possibly the most propagandized. It was humourous until it was applied to us.
It's not that you are all rich, it's that you pulled the ladder up after yourselves in any way that you thought might get you rich. Immigration was cheered because it caused GDP to go up, which you thought would increase your 401k. You allowed our uniparty to rise because you all were so gullible you fell for every trick they pulled if they promised you money.
You were the last generation that could have voted us out of this mess. Any time I find myself feeling sorry for boomers, I remember that Pat Buchanan only got ~22% of the vote in the 1996 Republican Primary. Also, Ross Perot would have done back then what Trump is doing now, with an actual chance of permanently fixing things rather than just stirring the pot before the Deep State re-assumes power in 2028.
No one generation pulled the ladder up after themselves. And it was the parents and grandparents of "boomers" who voted for immigration, starting with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. (The oldest boomers were 19 in 1965 and the youngest were 1.) And 401ks? Don't make me laugh. It wasn't "boomers" who pushed to replace guaranteed pension plans with risky 401ks. It was the parents of "boomers"... the last generation to have guaranteed pensions... and their grandparents who pushed that crap through.
From promises to portfolios: How 401(k)s replaced pensions in America - Pensions were the default way to retire until a 1978 law gave employees choice. Reagan's election sealed the 401(k)'s popularity when it was adopted by federal workers.
As for voting... really? Do you honestly think we could ever have voted our way out of this mess? And you accuse "boomers" of being gullible? Then again, you are gullible enough to believe all those lies you toss around in youir first paragraph.
'65 Immigration Act was unpopular with ~80% of the population. Yet somehow your generation couldn't figure out how to get rid of it, or figure out that voting didn't help. Your gen could have reformed the parties if you cared about anything other than money. You never even tried. You barely even made waves about being replaced in your own country due to your fear of being called bad names by your enemies.
Reread this article. It's trying to entice boomers to let their kids live with them in order to defend them against urban hordes. Not because they're family, but because your kids are less valuable to you than surviving long enough to get another month of social security and medicaid. If you gave a shit, you wouldn't want to draw your kids into the line of fire to protect the sanctity of your lawn.
The boomers in this case were just as fooled and worse, trusting as more anyone in this age. Your generation mistrusts, theirs did not. That came later.
Maybe you've never heard that the 1960 presidential election was rigged? I can remember my parents complaining about that one. Their generation never moved on to the next step, whatever that may be.
People also suspected that the 1964 presidential election was rigged, and 1968, not to mention the role that assassinations played in selecting the Democratic candidates in both races. In 1968, "boomers" and members of the so-called "silent" or "greatest" generation took a "next step" in Chicago in an attempt to disrupt the '68 Democratic convention. (The people who were tried as a result of that riot... the Chicago Seven... were all too old to be "boomers", and some have suggested in hindsight that a few may have been agent provocateurs.)
Like I said, you don't know as much as you think you do.
How in the hell are kids who were between the ages of 1 and 19 supposed to get rid of the '65 Immigration Act? How about telling me what your generation has done to get rid of it? Seems to me that the only thing most people of all ages are doing is bitching about it and not much else. Indeed, these days, the younger generations seem more interested in pushing the notion that "trans women are women" and other idpol nonsense.
As for reforming parties, yes, some people from all generations have tried over the years. There was a movement in the 70's and 80's based on the belief that the best way to transform politics was to reform parties from the inside... to infiltrate the major parties. Dennis Kucinich was one of those "boomers" and part of that movement. He was also one of the most successful when it came to getting elected but he certainly wasn't the only one who tried. Others, such as myself, focused on getting third parties on state ballots in the hopes of opening up the process to more than the two major parties, also known as the uniparty. Just because you never heard of these movements doesn't mean they didn't happen. It just means you aren't as informed as you think you are. And fear of being called bad names? Hey wanker, this old punk has never cared about being called a bad name.
I suspect that you're also one of those people who want someone to hate, and "boomers" are just about the only group that it is still socially acceptable to hate. You'd question why it's okay to hate a group based on when they were born if your brain wasn't so washed, but it seems obvious based on your comment that you're the type of person who reacts instead of thinks.
So take your hate and stick it where the sun doesn't shine. You don't know me or my family.
How do you get rid of a law? Get the votes to repeal it, obviously. Which your kind never even tried. Dennis Kucinich? Is that a joke? The best your gen did was Dennis Kucinich?
Also, I hate plenty of groups other than boomers. If you do not hate that which threatens what you love, then you do not truly love.
So what's stopping you from getting the votes to repeal it? And by the way, the voting age in 1965 was still 21. The oldest "boomers" didn't turn 21 until 1967. The voting age wasn't lowered to 18 until 1971. There's a lot lot you don't know, sugar britches.
As for Kuncinich, I never said I was a fan, only that he was part of the movement to infiltrate the two major parties in order to reform politics. If you knew how to use your brain, you might consider the possibility that he was allowed to succeed where many others failed because the powers that be knew he would be weak and ineffective. Perhaps you don't consider this because hate clouded your brain. And now you use love to make your hate sound noble.
Seems to me that you wouldn't recognize a real threat if it bit you on the ass.
It will do little. The narrative is already set in stone and the enemy identified. They've been doing this for a very long time. When the time comes people need to look much farther up the ladder than the tip of their nose for the enemy that is keeping them poor, divided and preyed upon. For all the scenario's most of us envisioned the worst enemy of the age wasn't domestic but foreign and the domestic enemy has been a far worse foe because he uses the law to defend his lawlessness and he uses violence while using the law to restrict you from doing the same. One must become like the other to previal. One must throw away respect for the law, but not civility to overcome and one must start buy removing themselves from this social media jail that confines them from the reality of life and real liberty. The solution will no more be found behind a keyboard than it was the pen or quill.
Agreed. I've been saying for years that the best response is to walk away... to boycott "the system" as much as possible and begin building alternative communities and economies. That's why I've been homesteading since 1983. Unfortunately, while I've known many people who agree with that premise, most seem to value convenience over liberty.
But, how many people can afford a homestead? A homestead that you do not even own. A homestead that comes with responsibilities.
Tax man comes to mind. So, you’re actually part of the privileged top 20 percent.
So happy that you could afford a homestead in 1983… you must of paid cash.. 💰
Otherwise, you def paid a high interest rate.
Your life is about over, as is mine. In a way… we were the lucky ones…. We remember a time when we had real freedom. Like just buying a plane ticket without ID, and traveling without ID. 🪪
Like free range play after school. Like being dropped off at the skating rink. Like smoking in the boys room…
I bought seven acres and a crappy little house on a land contract in 1983. The price for that property was $23,000.00. At the time, I was a single mom who worked as a waitri in one of the more popular restaurants in the closest city, where I could easily make $400.00 in tips every weekend. Yes, it took discipline but I'm very determined and frugal. Married my husband seven years later, which made my life easier, although he certainly wasn't wealthy. (He's a drafter.) I raised ducks, geese, dairy goats, plus a couple of lambs every year, as well as vegetable and herb gardens on that bit of land.
Four years ago, because the politics turned to crap in my home state (Michigan), we used most of the money in my husband's 401k to buy a twelve acre farm in east Tennessee and moved our livestock south. We now have less than $10,000.00 in that 401k (like I said, top 20 percent, my ass), but at least we don't have a mortgage. We also gave our grandson an acre of land and will give our daughter another acre when she moves here next year. The rest of this land will go to them when we're gone.
Not my fault if you chose not to do the same and are now trying to rationalize your choices by criticizing mine.
lol, what makes you think I have no property? However, most people can’t do all that. You just a person like me posting on social media. You’re no better than me, and I’m no better than you. Your little homestead will not protect you when the time comes. The technocracy will not allow it.
I didn't say you had no property. I simply referred to your choices as opposed to mine. And while I don't like to use words like "most"... no one knows what most people can do... a lot of people could do it if they wanted to.
As for my little homestead, you're right. In and of itself, it won't protect me when the shit hits the fan but it might give me and my loved ones a fighting chance. We also moved down here to "rebel country" because it's more likely that the locals will have our backs when the time comes, especially if we can provide food in return. We chose this red state in no small part because, unlike the people in Michigan, people down here refused to lockdown and mask up during the scamdemic. That's why there were no statewide closures in Tennessee. The state government knew the people wouldn't tolerate it. There is also a move to make gold and silver legal tender in the state and to pass nullification laws in order to give the state more power to rein in the feds. And then there is the TVA (now owned by the state) and the fact that the electricity used in this part of the world is also generated here. Sure, the technocrats might try to turn the power off but it wouldn't take those good ol' boys around here too long to get that power turned on again.
I lived this 22 years ago in Newport News, VA in the aftermath of Hurricane Isabel. I lived in a 80 year old white bread neighborhood in line with 5 other 80-100 year white bread neighborhoods filled with 30-40 old families with kids and many retirees and widows and widowers. Power was out in our neighborhood for over 30 days. There were three gas stations serving a demo or 100K people that had power. Two days before fists, knives and guns came out in line at these gas stations. The third night we had to stand picket at the entrance of our cul de sac and form hasty hasty neighborhood patrols with my neighbors because the "Canadian" Utes from the bad part of town discovered the home invasion game.
The social contract can and is abused for purpose, but it is the social contract that has allowed for the high trust society to exist. Which has afforded many people in the west a level of cultural advancement and/or comfort that we don't even recognize as a privilege but see it as a right. Only after that stretch of history is in the rear view mirror will people understand what they have lost. The west is being set up for a total reversal of that high trust society Those who break the unspoken rules of civil society SHOULD feel the consequences under no uncertain terms but that has been rendered illegal in many places. We have been conditioned to not defend our lives or property in the face of a violent offense so that we will look to the state for remedy which justifies the state's illegitimate power in the eyes of the public.
Quote: We have been conditioned to not defend our lives or property in the face of a violent offense so that we will look to the state for remedy which justifies the state's illegitimate power in the eyes of the public.
I've been saying this forever. We were conditioned early on in the 60's not to provide assistance to victims of violence lest we sucumb oursleves. It has made society weak and cowardly. It has made the criminal bold and expectant. As a society we need to come to the assistance of our brothers and sisters despite government lawlessness becuase it goes against everything natural and civilized. We've seen the state in action during the scamergency and they are not to be trusted with a plastic fork. They are all programmed to receive...and obey.
Well, the Left is trying to and has imported a lot of the Third World here. 50 million here in the US weren't born here and most of those from the Third World.
I’m telling you you’re out of line blaming immigrants, since Americans are all immigrants.
Look to yourself and those who think like you for the problems we face in America today. It’s the evil within us….and I’m afraid that means you and your ilk
Been in a hospital lately? Nursing home? Restaurant? And southern and Eastern Europe were definitely considered third world. Don’t even get me started about Ireland. FFS.
That’s all a fairy tale. You are not born to be ruled by a sovereign of no lord. But that is what the social contract states. Why do you think Frédéric Bastiat screamed, “Oh, Rousseau! What have you done to our people?!”
I have Frédéric Bastiat's, "The Law", handy. The last two paragraphs feel ripped from the headlines instead of 1850.
Let us try Liberty
God has given all men all that is necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided a social form as well as a human form. And these social organs of persons are so constituted that they will develop themselves harmoniously I the clean air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, chains and hooks, and pincers! Away with their artificial systems! Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs, their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their regulations,mtheir equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations!
And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futile inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and His works.
I am looking up the definition of the social contract. I didn't realize how contested the definition actually is. Very interesting, and no wonder as it sits at the feet of the very fundamental yet controversial tenet of land ownership. I guess Locke makes the most sense to me upon a cursory skim and is closer to what I believed the definition to be.
"Locke thus stated one of the fundamental principles of political liberalism: that there can be no subjection to power without consent—though once political society has been founded, citizens are obligated to accept the decisions of a majority of their number. Such decisions are made on behalf of the majority by the legislature, though the ultimate power of choosing the legislature rests with the people; and even the powers of the legislature are not absolute, because the law of nature remains as a permanent standard and as a principle of protection against arbitrary authority."
“the ultimate power of choosing the legislature rests with the people”
I think that the founders objections to political parties is substantiated by current perversions, theft, and fraud which invalidate Locke’s reasonable assumptions underlying his arguments. It just ain’t so.
I've been noticing more and more animosity towards myself by younger men. In two cases they were pastors of all people. They want to blame someone for their ills and instead of looking at the institutions that are behind this mess, like the Federal Reserve and government itself, they look at their neighbor who busted his ass off for the time he did to pay for that house, and since everything is so out of whack because of the Fed, they don't see the forest due to the trees. It's easier to blame someone than it is to seek out the true cause of your dilemma and blame the system that caused it. And when you're on a fixed "income" and the rent on your paid off home keeps going up due to inflated values placed on it, what is left to do except try to wake people up! That's where I place my effort these days. Realized it isn't MY fault that the home I bought for $80 K is now SUPPOSEDLY worth $180K. And my RENT has increased to over $100 a month in Arkansas. Some places a home like mine would be worth a million or more and the rent would be in the 10s of thousands. I say rent because that is what PROPERTY TAXES are. The 1st plank of the communist manifesto's 10 planks. They pay for the 10th plank. https://www.courageouslion.us/p/communism-american-style
Yeah baby, tell it like it is. Government trolls are fanning the flames because they want to get rid of the social security ranks. If vaccines don’t work, Maybe lynching will? Oldest play in the book.
Rubbish. Under the American constitutional system, ALL law enforcement is LOCAL. Without LOCAL property taxes, there is either no police protection AT ALL or we would have had a NATIONAL police force like nearly every other country in the world. So would you prefer a NATIONAL police force to paying LOCAL property taxes? Or no police at all? If your LOCAL property taxes are too high in your opinion, then why did YOU vote for them? And yes, you DID vote for them, so don't pretend that you did not.
Then I guess you are not aware that the lion's share of property tax revenue is allocated to the schools and not law enforcement. So government is confiscating our wealth to brain wash our kids and not to protect it's citizens.
Well, you guess wrong. But nobody is forced to hand their children over to be brainwashed by government schools--and you are right about the brainwashing. There are numerous alternatives to government schools. But that has nothing to do with the fact that we have local law enforcement, not national police forces as most countries have.
The point is this: Do you want a national police force over which you could have no control whatsoever, or do you want law enforcement to be local? Americans have never had anything other than LOCAL law enforcement under the American constitutional system. It is one of the main reasons that our people have been the freest in the world.
As for "confiscation," the local taxes that pay for the brainwashing of our children are approved by LOCAL voters. And the law enforcement expenses are also approved by local voters--meaning you, whether you vote or not.
Your reply to me is a dodge. Schools and law enforcement expenses are paid for by LOCAL property taxes, which are approved LOCALLY by LOCAL voters, so there is no "confiscation." Income taxes--yes--THAT is confiscation because they are blatantly unconstitutional, being direct taxes, not apportioned taxes as the Constitution requires. But your local property taxes are approved by you and other LOCAL voters.
Look, you and I are on the same side. But it is simply not true that local taxes are confiscated. LOCAL control of law enforcement is part of the genius of the American constitutional system. Schools are unrelated to the question at hand. That is a separate issue, although I totally agree with you that they are worse than useless,, b/c they are actively harmful, but the solution to that problem is LOCAL.
If you know somebody who wants to get schooling for their children but thinks that he cannot afford it, reply to me, and I'll hook you up with a fully accredited diploma-granting school where the tuition is free of charge for the elementary grades and very affordable for the high school. It is 100% online. There is no reason why any parent has to hand his children over to the Godless government schools.
No body knows what people voted for in local elections, including their neighbors. A secret ballot means there is no way to verify if your vote was counted as you wanted or not.
The point is, the part of my property tax that goes for law enforcement is fine with me. The majority, which goes to teach kids that there are unlimited genders, that white people are specialy priviliged and therefore should be limited, or that their country is evil and should be hated, is not fine with me.
The coming storm? Yeah you really don’t have enough hard friends and ammo.
I am a “lucky boomer?” Born in 1958. I worked hard all my life, we common folks have too. Now that I am retired I volunteer at state parks, last summer when it was busy I logged 50 or more hours a week, this was common. What I have observed over the last few decades is that most of the teen to 30ish citizens are worthless. And it’s complicated to point to the one influencing factor for this. If I had too I would point to all the digital social systems and the readily available communication devices, (phones, pads, laptops). For the most part they are either frail pasty white, or obese. Then ones in between will have a phone in their face constantly like it’s a life support item. My point is this, even if grandpa or grandma left little Johnny the MacMansion or the farm, little Johnny would be clueless to keep it going much less keep it as a personal property as the state would eventually steel it, (taxes). (WRSA posted a video from North Korea about phones and their power.)
The federal reserve is not, and we here, all know that.
Oh really? You are bitching about perceived crimes than real. How much of that "chinese" stuff do you own? All of us got screwed by the "rich" not boomers. It's not their age bracket it's their behaviour. There are a lot of rich ass gen z and worse, influencers of all things which your gen flock to like geese to a pond. Boomers have far worse crimes to their credit. Greed is an individual crime that crosses all barriers. Sorry charlie that boat don't float.
These are the wealthy liberal TDS boomers with too much time on their hands. The boomers working at the Walmart checkout or home enjoying their grandchildren have no time for standing outside holding up signs for George Soros.
Yes, our future will devolve into the Hell that Matt so accurately predicts.
How I’ll it start ? He gives various reasons, but there are many others. Regardless, when the grid goes, food availability goes ! No way around that fact. Even if you live next to a Kroger distribution center, the food will go fast. Spoilage, rampant thefts-looting, communication breakdown, fuel not delivered/replaced, farmer produce left in fields that won’t be harvested, foods harvested in storage that won’t be processed/delivered, medicines disappear…..
BINGO !! You are now faced with 16 th Century life style without the hardiness and community of those pioneers.
Wanna live longer ?? GET OUT OF THE CITIES !! Learn to grow and forage wild vegetation. Find your own tribe of like minded survivors to rebuild trust
Lastly, but should be first: GET RIGHT WITH GOD. !!
I have been trying to spread awareness and build community for five years to no avail. No one wants to hear it. The Boomers don't have a monopoly on short sighted greed, selfishness, and arrogance. Just add sloth and smugness and, whaaa laa, you've got the average Millenial.
My in laws only care about their timeshare in Mexico 3 to 4 times a year. Trips to Europe. Most people over 50 are very overweight and out of shape and need a meadly of medicine. We tried to help my mom out, she didn't like my husband. He tried everything. Yardwork, house work, cooking, bought a massage chair for her. She wanted a porch, he offered to build. Nope. Stain the house, nope. Drove her to where she needed to go. None of it was good enough. We left. Now she has cancer, lives alone and people trying to figure out how to get her places. We were there for her. She clearly didn't want us. My inlaws are manipulative, wealthy and gluttonous. We just want to love and take care of our parents. We just want them in our lives. They make it so hard.
My mother must have fallen from the same Boomer tree as your in-laws did. I am challenged daily by her behavior. She has a degenerative eye condition that will eventually take her sight. I moved in with her 13 years ago to help her keep as much independence as possible and to help me as well because I was working three jobs and still struggling to make ends meet. In exchange for that decision, she has managed to make me regret every moment since. A little over a year ago, after an event that made me realize just how deeply she needs to disparage me within every context of life, I stopped speaking with her to limit her damage.
When my Dad had cancer I moved back in with them. At the time I was single. No children. I had 2 jobs and helped him get to every appointment and every meal. All his medicine, took notes when the doctors spoke, even made him pot peanut butter cookies to eat more. He was grateful and loved having me there. Different with her. Sometimes parents just aren't what you think they are. Or hope they are. Sorry you had to go through that. Take care.
My mother in law is exactly the same, never satisfied and she was born in the early 30's. More here at work than meets the eye. Good of you to try though to help and good on your husband despite being disliked!
Absolute truth Matt. I tried working as an on the road tech for a small company last year to take me into a final year or two of income before pulling the plug to retire. The shop had two 30-year-olds running the dispatch and the shop/warehouse. They both resented me and really, any of the other techs who were older than they were and had much knowledge. Whenever the owner was out of town, they would turn my life into a living hell. I lasted 4 months and then called it quits. I can tell you; I won't be checking who they are or what they want when they make their move. However, many come at me before I go down will be how many I take with me. I know that's not what you want to hear and that's not the way I wanted to go out but if you look that same age group, they're only ones who knew what America 1.0 was all about. Anybody after '64, never probably drove or a new AMC vehicle or went with mom and dad to buy shoes at Kinney's or ever heard the jingle from McDonald's about "feed a family of four for under a dollar". Remember those days, Matt? After the gold standard was parked, it became "Feed a Family of Four for under Four Dollars". How many of them remember Chrysler getting government guaranteed loans and not government loans as lore has changed it into? How many remember the M1 Tank program being sold off to GM after Chrysler had to let it go in the bankruptcy? How many of them remember Obama, taking control of the auto companies illegally and then closing plants and moving them to China, via their friends in the UAW? How many remember cash-for-clunkers, purposefully destroying the used car market and taking away transportation choices for all lower income Americans? The new car market sucked, as it does now. That was Obama and the GOP stood silent with their fingers pulling their back pockets open to try and catch the free money, printed from whole cloth to further sink us into debt? And how interesting it is, that I blame my parents' generations for playing, "trust the plan" called the Constitution that got us into this Socialist disaster. Even the WWI generation carries blame. But as you clearly state, it won't matter in the end. The CD manual is a must.
Have a Happy Easter Matt and all of you who follow!
I almost feel as though we should work out some kind of test for those gen X and Zers for the future, should they claim to be on "our side". Perhaps something in a WW2 prison camp style such as "who won the world series" or "what was Ted Williams batting average". I wonder what that could be like? Perhaps, who were the sides of the 1776 Revolution? Thanks for tapping in Kathy!
It's all a rich man's trick. Our generation has things to answer for but screwing their kids out a living is a time honoured shaft for uncaring greedy bastards across the centuries. The very rich laugh as they breed contention among the unwashed masses. Some day those masses will be like the hungry in Paris before the revolution and their financial isolation will do little for them as it did nothing for the rich in those days.
Even without civil unrest Boomers are looking at a grim future. When an elderly and overwhelmingly White cohort is demanding money in the form of Social Security and that is pitted against a mostly non-White working population, who are politicians going to listen to? They alienated younger Whites so their list of political allies will get thin the older they get and the more they die off.
I have paid into SS my entire adult life and at 62 years of age I know, damn well, I will receive non of it. The big boys looted that in the 70's. Everything since then has been a shell game hiding that fact.
Yes, I am aware of that. SS has nothing to do with "social security" but you have no choice in the funds being removed from your earned income. All with a "promise" of support when you can no longer work.
Yes, they did, and they continue to look for new, untraceable sources of grift, and won't even acknowledge what they did. LBJ, Unified Budget, 1968. Took it ALL OUT.
Yes, but if reality kicks in maybe they will realize it isn't the boomers at all. It's the SYSTEM that it is all based on for you see...
"The Federal Government, with the cooperation of the Federal Reserve, has the inherent power to create money--almost any amount of it."
~ The National Debt, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, p. 8
ALMOST? Why only ALMOST? What keeps them from creating ALL they want? You? Me? Your dog? A full moon? The only reason for taxes at the federal level is to make you "believe" they need them and to impart value in your mind on fake fiat currency. Did it work? Social Security isn't threated by lack of funds. They can create ALL they need or want at a keyboard on a computer.
Federal Reserve Notes are not federal, represent no monetary reserves and no longer conform to the definition of notes. Failing to state who, will pay what, when or to whom - they ceased to be legal tender notes, (offers of money) almost 60 years ago. They are in fact instruments of legalized THEFT.
"...Keynes argues that inflation is a 'method of taxation' which the government uses to 'secure the command over real resources, resources just as real as those obtained by [ordinary] taxation'. 'What is raised by printing notes, ' he writes, is just as much taken from the public as is a beer duty or an income tax.' "
- 1980 Annual Report, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, pg 10
"All the paper money issued today is Federal Reserve notes. The real backing for the nation's money is faith in the strength, soundness and stability of the American economy."
~ The Hats the Federal Reserve Wears, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, pg 4
Faith is what backs our monetary system. YOUR faith. Do you still have faith?
"When plunder has become a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
~ Frederic Bastiat in "The Law"
"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation,
governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
~ 1980 Annual Report, Federal Reserve
Bank of Richmond, pg 6
Isn't confiscation of the wealth of the citizens a nice way of saying STEALING?
"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience." ~ John Locke (1690)
If the money you earn has no value and you are forced through fiat paper legislation to take it for your labor, are you not having your property (labor) destroyed and are you not being reduced to nothing but slavery? Is not the state at war with the people?
5th Plank Communist Manifesto: Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
The Federal Reserve System, created by the Federal Reserve Act of Congress in 1913, is indeed such a “national bank” and it politically manipulates interest rates and holds a monopoly on legal counterfeiting in the United States. This is exactly what Marx had in mind and completely fulfills this plank, another major socialist objective. Yet, most Americans naively believe the U.S. of A. is far from a Marxist or socialist nation.
"The writers of the constitution knew exactly what they were doing when they wrote in Article I Section 10 paragraph 1 'No state shall... make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. ' People able to barter with gold and silver coin control government and are free. Loss of the right to trade in gold and silver coin enslaves people to the creators of psychological 'money.'":
Yes, but the incessant drone of mass media and education will blame the boomers despite the evidence. Hitler needed an enemy and so will the Democrats.
The building tension against the boomer generation will be stoked and used for great advantage, the system is built by evil men not stupid men. The Boomer did sit on exceptional opportunity but they did have to work for it. Unfortunately, they have earned a large portion of the animosity they are receiving. A common bumper sticker in the 80's was "I am spending my children's inheritance ". As far as gross generalizations go, that mentality fits the boomer mentality to a T.
probably the silent generation rather than a boomer had that bumper sticker. The oldest boomer would have been 34 in 1980. No one ever blames the generation that allowed the fed reserve and income tax in 1913. Or the greatest generation and the silent generation for anything. Tom hayden and jane fonda were silent generation. they had lots of company.
The bumper stickers were on huge RV's purchased by people who retired early. The ability to buy those behemoths ensured no legacy or wealth preservation would be passed on to their children, thus the slogan on the bumper if the actions weren't clear enough. The Baby Boomers are very wedded to the quality of their own experiences. Strengthening the ability of their children to succeed in life? Not so much. Technically, I am considered a boomer since I was born in '63, which feels laughable to me since my parents are also boomers and we have very different priorities.
Unfortunately, the haters will not take the time to read your factual statements. Their attention spans have been shortened by the damn computer games they were weaned on.
Well, yeah, it isn't as if they had much choice in paying into social security, so yeah, they're "entitled" to getting some of their money back. Most won't.
Matt, these are boomer lefties who as lefties have a footprint in all generations going back to WW1. If you go to the effort of writing a screed this long you might break the category into constituant parts for accuracy. Right wing boomers voted for Trump and are hated by shitlibs of all generations as much as anyone else.
I believe you nailed another coming period, I predicted years ago something similar also who’s gonna buy up all the overpriced homes and McMansions. I’m a boomer 70’s been blaming boomers for years of fast forwarding the demise of the USA. I was for raising the black flag and slitting throats back in the 60’s and was considered a whack job. History Repeats
Empires have a natural rise and fall. We're clearly on the descent. It all ends someday, either our lives or our society.
The swarming Orcs will have no mercy. Pain will happen. Faith in God paramount. Our kids will step up, or they won't. No guarantees. What's coming is deserved. We got weak. We were gluttonous. We forgot God. Who's surprised?
Be creative. Gird up, even in old age. We older types grew up playing outside, in the cold, heat, mud, snow, wind, rain. The little ingrates are not immune to pain. Once their electricity goes out, they'll be lost.
You might be slower, weaker, tired, sometimes frail. But you're not dead. Trump was 78 yoa and shot. He got up and immediately fought back. You (we) can too. Fight.
wealth display has never impressed me. A rolex or a timex is all the same. And there is always , how much do you owe for that car? And everything else? Even if everything is free and clear, are you living paycheck to paycheck? Still not impressed if the answer is no.
Agreed. Matt and the other comments are spot on…. The trend was set years ago and easy to identify if you weren’t caught up in contemporary political/social babble. Keep up the counter thought gentlemen.
This is a real problem. Far bigger than most can imagine. I briefly addressed this in my last conversation with @coffeeandamike Time stamp ~ 1:32:30 https://youtu.be/q7tuMaCtaQQ?si=frg_s1W8syIOn49b
Who wants to live in a big house by himself? Sounds horrible to me....If I were ever in such a situation, not likely, I would pay one of my kids or grandkids to live with me, or vice versa....
In many countries it’s standard for the aging to live with their children’s families, and once was here. I’m old and living with my daughter, her husband and two grandchildren. Combining assets made it all more affordable. I liked your new book, but that chapter on South Carolina was hard to read, especially since I lived there when in the service.
Does anyone remember stagflation? The oil embargo?
It's a myth that "boomers" made out like bandits. The economy began tanking as the oldest "boomers" were just starting to enter the job market, beginning with stagflation, which was followed by the oil embargo, as well as the move to "outsource", "offshore" and "downsize" the manufacturing base which all but eliminated good paying jobs that didn't require a college degree. (Just 26% of "boomers" went to college. That's went to college. The percentage that actually earned a degree is lower. Compare this to the 75% of young people who have enrolled in college.)
According to several sources, roughly 80% of the wealth attributed to "boomers" is owned by just 20% of that cohort, with the rest of that wealth owned by another 30%. Half of all "boomers" have no financial assets, in no small part due to the destruction of the manufacturing base.
That aforementioned 20% are the people living in those affluent suburbs. I suspect that they are also the children and grandchildren of the wealthiest members of previous generations.
Of course, the powers that should not be have been pushing the anti-"boomer" narrative since that generation began entering the job market, although the reasons for why "boomers" are to be singled out has changed over years, and it has been nothing but a psyop intended to keep people from focusing on the real culprits. Yes, some of those culprits are "boomers" and some are among the few remaining members of the "silent" or so-called "greatest" generation, but the old are now giving way to the culprits in the "Gen-X" and "Millenial" generation... the children who were born into those affluent suburban homes now owned by "boomers". Bill Gates is a "boomer" and Jeff Bezos is a borderline "boomer", but Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Stephen Cohen, Bill Ackman and Mark Zuckerberg (to name a few) are members of the younger generations. The median age in the House of Representatives is now 57. The youngest "boomers" are now 61.
It's time for all of us to reject this divide and control narrative intended to continue destroying the family structure by turning the young against the old. This destruction, by the way, began during the latter half of the 19th century when the nuclear family replaced the extended family as the ideal household. So yes, let's begin recreating those extended family, not only because it's the right thing to do for our younger relatives but also because it takes a family to create generational wealth. Ever notice how we talk about the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers or the Kennedys? Those with the most make sure to keep their families strong while selling the myth of the rugged individual to the rest of us.
And if we don't reject this narrative? Then "Gen-X" better start preparing because they will become the scapegoat once the "boomers" have all died out. Don't forget that the "boomers" were also primed to hate their parents and grandparents generations. "Never trust anyone over 30!"
Great comment! Thanks!
This quote is a gem: "the powers that should not be have been pushing the anti-"boomer" narrative since that generation began entering the job market, although the reasons for why "boomers" are to be singled out has changed over years, and it has been nothing but a psyop intended to keep people from focusing on the real culprits."
Bravo! And spot on!
Thank you.
Antiboomer is mostly a propaganda theme to justify looting the Social Security Trust Fund. The SS Trust Fund which is a real thing, a sovereign debt of the US.
Trust Fund will be transferred to Wall Street for a privatized plan and benefits will be drastically cut.
Thomas, here's the truth about 'Socialist insecurity' that you and others here were never told about:
Social Security (really INSECURITY) IS welfare - it IS nothing more than an engineered Ponzi pyramid scam created by FDR.
What people don't realize is that the money taken from their paychecks for ss is used to pay the PREVIOUS generation of workers their 'benefits'...your withholding for ss pays for a previous worker, NOT you - that's the reality of the Social Insecurity scam that's pulled on people.
And Congress CAN and DOES use the money in ss for ANYTHING that they want - they've been doing such for easily over 50+ years.
Don't believe me?..then pay attention to the following testimony given on May 27th 1976 by W.Allen Wallis, Chairman of the 1975 Advisory Council on Social Security before the Joint Economics Committee:
"Many people think that the Social Security taxes taken out of their wages and sent to Washington each month provide for their old-age pensions and other Social Security benefits.
This is simply not the case. Those taxes are levied on workers in order to pay benefits to people who already retired and are drawing their Social Security pensions..
When you pay Social Security taxes you are in no way making provision for your own retirement. You are paying the pensions of those who are already retired.
Once you understand this, you see that whether you will get the benefits you are counting ok when you retire, depends on whether the Congress will levy enough taxes, borrow enough, or print enough money, and whether it will authorize the level of benefits you are counting on.
The situation is in no way analogous to putting money each month into a private insurance company which invests it and undertakes to pay you an annuity.
Misunderstanding of the pay-as -you-go nature of Social Security is widespread among journalists and the public. Indeed this Misunderstanding seems to have been deliberately cultivated sometimes, in the belief that it makes the Social Security System more palatable to the public."
Understand this: your SS taxes are NOT held in some special account for you like, growing until your retirement or disability. Your "Social Security Account Number" does not in any way designate an account in which money has been placed and invested on your behalf. Your SS taxes (excuse me, "contributions") go directly to the government's general fund (via, of course, the FED).
Here's the proof of the above by several key legal rulings:
[SS taxes] are to be paid into the Treasury at Washington, and thereafter are subject to appropriation like public monies generally. [SSctaxes] are not ear-marked in any way...
-- Delivering v. Davis, 301 U.S. 619
They [SS taxes] enter the Treasury as free funds set apart to no special use and subject to be applied to any congressional appropriation.
-- Stewart Machine Company v. Davis, 301 U.S. 548 (1937)
"This [SS] tax collects money from individuals and puts it into the Federal Treasury, to be used for any purpose whatsoever..."
-- Charles E. Wyzanski, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, 1937
You have no "account" in the true financial sense. Your SS "contributions" are not invested; they are SPENT. By law, the Federal government is forbidden to hold corporate stocks and bonds; the principal investment of private insurance firms.
Finally, no one is "entitled" to SS "benefits" as a property right under the law. You have no contractual guarantee of "benefits" as you do with a private insurance company. You can't will your "benefits" to your children as a private insurance plan. Congress can disallow your "benefits" at any time, or even shut down the entire program tomorrow and you would have utterly no legal recourse (Fleming v. Nestor, 80S.Ct.1367, (1960)).
None of the above is conjecture or theory - it's history and fact.
Americans have been hoodwinked and scammed by FDR's regime collectivist creation of SS and for that matter all the rest of the welfare cancer that's issued forth as a result.
SS and all the rest of the miasma of welfare WILL come to an end sooner than later because there's no regime in existence that can continue to endlessly fund it through continual tax levying via workers, especially when the population of workers are overwhelmed by those holding their hands out for welfare.
It's only a matter of time before the whole rotten edifice of welfare collapses in upon itself.
Be prepared to live without SS and the rest of welfare.
Reality never promised it to anyone.
You wrote a lot there but you don't seem to understand the nature of government debt.
A lot of the money the government spends is borrowed. Some is borrowed by Chinese buying US Treasury Bonds. Some is borrowed from people paying FICA taxes either as employers or employees which are a different kind of government bonds. The bonds held in the Trust Fund are sufficient to cover spending on SS until 2033 or so.
How is the debt owed to workers in the Social Security Trust Fund different from bonds owed to the Chinese?
really good piece. the people playing the generation blame game will in turn be blamed. I don't think any boomer aside from the boomers who had inherited and generational wealth are to blame for anything. And except for the arrogance and stupidity the generational wealth boomers just did what anyone would have done in their situation.
"The people playing the generation blame game will in turn be blamed."
Exactly!
That this hasn't dawned on them does not speak well for their abiliity to look life in the eye. Boomer Blame is Lame! It's also counter-productive. But that too has yet to dawn on them.
very counter productive, solves nothing and creates hate, distrust etc. We really don’t need that. We already have enough. Thanks at least in great measure to the great replacement operation.
Yes, thank you for this. The anti-boomer thing has gotten as out of control as the anti-woman thing. Making enemies out of people who just aren't. Some while back, before I left social media altogether for a year, there was a guy writing articles about how they're going to have to kill all the boomers and steal their shit.
Boomers didn't decide how the economy was going to get structured any more than zoomers decided it was a good idea to stream porn into everyone's homes 24/7.
Those of us who remain sane need to withdraw from this slopfest and stop giving it oxygen, and figure out ways to build our own communities offline. I don't know how to accomplish this but there's got to be a way.
Yes. I do. I remember it well. No one had credit cards back then. Interest rates were 12 and 14 percent. My parents never owned a home. These young people have been fed a pack of lies.
Later boomer here. When we were thinking of buying a house in our 20s interest rates were 22% in Canada.
We didn’t.
Do the math, inflation adjusted, 22% at those prices is way cheaper than 2% at today's prices
We all have... that is the point I think. Enemies are easy to manufacture and every government does it. Get people to start rejecting political correctness and start seeing solutions evolve before your very eyes. White people, the current demon have to see things as they are. They are their own worse enemy and possibly the most propagandized. It was humourous until it was applied to us.
It's not that you are all rich, it's that you pulled the ladder up after yourselves in any way that you thought might get you rich. Immigration was cheered because it caused GDP to go up, which you thought would increase your 401k. You allowed our uniparty to rise because you all were so gullible you fell for every trick they pulled if they promised you money.
You were the last generation that could have voted us out of this mess. Any time I find myself feeling sorry for boomers, I remember that Pat Buchanan only got ~22% of the vote in the 1996 Republican Primary. Also, Ross Perot would have done back then what Trump is doing now, with an actual chance of permanently fixing things rather than just stirring the pot before the Deep State re-assumes power in 2028.
No one generation pulled the ladder up after themselves. And it was the parents and grandparents of "boomers" who voted for immigration, starting with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. (The oldest boomers were 19 in 1965 and the youngest were 1.) And 401ks? Don't make me laugh. It wasn't "boomers" who pushed to replace guaranteed pension plans with risky 401ks. It was the parents of "boomers"... the last generation to have guaranteed pensions... and their grandparents who pushed that crap through.
From promises to portfolios: How 401(k)s replaced pensions in America - Pensions were the default way to retire until a 1978 law gave employees choice. Reagan's election sealed the 401(k)'s popularity when it was adopted by federal workers.
https://thatch.ai/blog/promises-to-portolios
As for voting... really? Do you honestly think we could ever have voted our way out of this mess? And you accuse "boomers" of being gullible? Then again, you are gullible enough to believe all those lies you toss around in youir first paragraph.
'65 Immigration Act was unpopular with ~80% of the population. Yet somehow your generation couldn't figure out how to get rid of it, or figure out that voting didn't help. Your gen could have reformed the parties if you cared about anything other than money. You never even tried. You barely even made waves about being replaced in your own country due to your fear of being called bad names by your enemies.
Reread this article. It's trying to entice boomers to let their kids live with them in order to defend them against urban hordes. Not because they're family, but because your kids are less valuable to you than surviving long enough to get another month of social security and medicaid. If you gave a shit, you wouldn't want to draw your kids into the line of fire to protect the sanctity of your lawn.
When someone makes ”you could’ve voted it out” a cause for culpability, they’ve already lost the argument.
We'll never know because the boomers didn't even try. At worst we'd have confirmed much earlier that voting was rigged, and moved on to the next step.
The boomers in this case were just as fooled and worse, trusting as more anyone in this age. Your generation mistrusts, theirs did not. That came later.
Maybe you've never heard that the 1960 presidential election was rigged? I can remember my parents complaining about that one. Their generation never moved on to the next step, whatever that may be.
People also suspected that the 1964 presidential election was rigged, and 1968, not to mention the role that assassinations played in selecting the Democratic candidates in both races. In 1968, "boomers" and members of the so-called "silent" or "greatest" generation took a "next step" in Chicago in an attempt to disrupt the '68 Democratic convention. (The people who were tried as a result of that riot... the Chicago Seven... were all too old to be "boomers", and some have suggested in hindsight that a few may have been agent provocateurs.)
Like I said, you don't know as much as you think you do.
This week in history: JFK and the stolen election
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/12/16/22176920/jfk-stolen-1960-election-chicago-illinois
How in the hell are kids who were between the ages of 1 and 19 supposed to get rid of the '65 Immigration Act? How about telling me what your generation has done to get rid of it? Seems to me that the only thing most people of all ages are doing is bitching about it and not much else. Indeed, these days, the younger generations seem more interested in pushing the notion that "trans women are women" and other idpol nonsense.
As for reforming parties, yes, some people from all generations have tried over the years. There was a movement in the 70's and 80's based on the belief that the best way to transform politics was to reform parties from the inside... to infiltrate the major parties. Dennis Kucinich was one of those "boomers" and part of that movement. He was also one of the most successful when it came to getting elected but he certainly wasn't the only one who tried. Others, such as myself, focused on getting third parties on state ballots in the hopes of opening up the process to more than the two major parties, also known as the uniparty. Just because you never heard of these movements doesn't mean they didn't happen. It just means you aren't as informed as you think you are. And fear of being called bad names? Hey wanker, this old punk has never cared about being called a bad name.
I suspect that you're also one of those people who want someone to hate, and "boomers" are just about the only group that it is still socially acceptable to hate. You'd question why it's okay to hate a group based on when they were born if your brain wasn't so washed, but it seems obvious based on your comment that you're the type of person who reacts instead of thinks.
So take your hate and stick it where the sun doesn't shine. You don't know me or my family.
How do you get rid of a law? Get the votes to repeal it, obviously. Which your kind never even tried. Dennis Kucinich? Is that a joke? The best your gen did was Dennis Kucinich?
Also, I hate plenty of groups other than boomers. If you do not hate that which threatens what you love, then you do not truly love.
So what's stopping you from getting the votes to repeal it? And by the way, the voting age in 1965 was still 21. The oldest "boomers" didn't turn 21 until 1967. The voting age wasn't lowered to 18 until 1971. There's a lot lot you don't know, sugar britches.
As for Kuncinich, I never said I was a fan, only that he was part of the movement to infiltrate the two major parties in order to reform politics. If you knew how to use your brain, you might consider the possibility that he was allowed to succeed where many others failed because the powers that be knew he would be weak and ineffective. Perhaps you don't consider this because hate clouded your brain. And now you use love to make your hate sound noble.
Seems to me that you wouldn't recognize a real threat if it bit you on the ass.
“YOU” got a turd in your pocket?
It will do little. The narrative is already set in stone and the enemy identified. They've been doing this for a very long time. When the time comes people need to look much farther up the ladder than the tip of their nose for the enemy that is keeping them poor, divided and preyed upon. For all the scenario's most of us envisioned the worst enemy of the age wasn't domestic but foreign and the domestic enemy has been a far worse foe because he uses the law to defend his lawlessness and he uses violence while using the law to restrict you from doing the same. One must become like the other to previal. One must throw away respect for the law, but not civility to overcome and one must start buy removing themselves from this social media jail that confines them from the reality of life and real liberty. The solution will no more be found behind a keyboard than it was the pen or quill.
Agreed. I've been saying for years that the best response is to walk away... to boycott "the system" as much as possible and begin building alternative communities and economies. That's why I've been homesteading since 1983. Unfortunately, while I've known many people who agree with that premise, most seem to value convenience over liberty.
All nice 😊
But, how many people can afford a homestead? A homestead that you do not even own. A homestead that comes with responsibilities.
Tax man comes to mind. So, you’re actually part of the privileged top 20 percent.
So happy that you could afford a homestead in 1983… you must of paid cash.. 💰
Otherwise, you def paid a high interest rate.
Your life is about over, as is mine. In a way… we were the lucky ones…. We remember a time when we had real freedom. Like just buying a plane ticket without ID, and traveling without ID. 🪪
Like free range play after school. Like being dropped off at the skating rink. Like smoking in the boys room…
Top 20 percent, my ass.
I bought seven acres and a crappy little house on a land contract in 1983. The price for that property was $23,000.00. At the time, I was a single mom who worked as a waitri in one of the more popular restaurants in the closest city, where I could easily make $400.00 in tips every weekend. Yes, it took discipline but I'm very determined and frugal. Married my husband seven years later, which made my life easier, although he certainly wasn't wealthy. (He's a drafter.) I raised ducks, geese, dairy goats, plus a couple of lambs every year, as well as vegetable and herb gardens on that bit of land.
Four years ago, because the politics turned to crap in my home state (Michigan), we used most of the money in my husband's 401k to buy a twelve acre farm in east Tennessee and moved our livestock south. We now have less than $10,000.00 in that 401k (like I said, top 20 percent, my ass), but at least we don't have a mortgage. We also gave our grandson an acre of land and will give our daughter another acre when she moves here next year. The rest of this land will go to them when we're gone.
Not my fault if you chose not to do the same and are now trying to rationalize your choices by criticizing mine.
lol, what makes you think I have no property? However, most people can’t do all that. You just a person like me posting on social media. You’re no better than me, and I’m no better than you. Your little homestead will not protect you when the time comes. The technocracy will not allow it.
Good luck on your homestead. God Speed.
I didn't say you had no property. I simply referred to your choices as opposed to mine. And while I don't like to use words like "most"... no one knows what most people can do... a lot of people could do it if they wanted to.
As for my little homestead, you're right. In and of itself, it won't protect me when the shit hits the fan but it might give me and my loved ones a fighting chance. We also moved down here to "rebel country" because it's more likely that the locals will have our backs when the time comes, especially if we can provide food in return. We chose this red state in no small part because, unlike the people in Michigan, people down here refused to lockdown and mask up during the scamdemic. That's why there were no statewide closures in Tennessee. The state government knew the people wouldn't tolerate it. There is also a move to make gold and silver legal tender in the state and to pass nullification laws in order to give the state more power to rein in the feds. And then there is the TVA (now owned by the state) and the fact that the electricity used in this part of the world is also generated here. Sure, the technocrats might try to turn the power off but it wouldn't take those good ol' boys around here too long to get that power turned on again.
Agree
I lived this 22 years ago in Newport News, VA in the aftermath of Hurricane Isabel. I lived in a 80 year old white bread neighborhood in line with 5 other 80-100 year white bread neighborhoods filled with 30-40 old families with kids and many retirees and widows and widowers. Power was out in our neighborhood for over 30 days. There were three gas stations serving a demo or 100K people that had power. Two days before fists, knives and guns came out in line at these gas stations. The third night we had to stand picket at the entrance of our cul de sac and form hasty hasty neighborhood patrols with my neighbors because the "Canadian" Utes from the bad part of town discovered the home invasion game.
This went on for over 30 days.
The social contract is signed on a very thin piece of paper, lol.
Sorry to say, but the reason for the social contract is only to dissuade jyou from killing off the mob. It’s for chumps.
The social contract can and is abused for purpose, but it is the social contract that has allowed for the high trust society to exist. Which has afforded many people in the west a level of cultural advancement and/or comfort that we don't even recognize as a privilege but see it as a right. Only after that stretch of history is in the rear view mirror will people understand what they have lost. The west is being set up for a total reversal of that high trust society Those who break the unspoken rules of civil society SHOULD feel the consequences under no uncertain terms but that has been rendered illegal in many places. We have been conditioned to not defend our lives or property in the face of a violent offense so that we will look to the state for remedy which justifies the state's illegitimate power in the eyes of the public.
Quote: We have been conditioned to not defend our lives or property in the face of a violent offense so that we will look to the state for remedy which justifies the state's illegitimate power in the eyes of the public.
I've been saying this forever. We were conditioned early on in the 60's not to provide assistance to victims of violence lest we sucumb oursleves. It has made society weak and cowardly. It has made the criminal bold and expectant. As a society we need to come to the assistance of our brothers and sisters despite government lawlessness becuase it goes against everything natural and civilized. We've seen the state in action during the scamergency and they are not to be trusted with a plastic fork. They are all programmed to receive...and obey.
And people still claim America isn't a third-world country 🤷♂️
Well, the Left is trying to and has imported a lot of the Third World here. 50 million here in the US weren't born here and most of those from the Third World.
It’s no crime to have been born elsewhere.
No one is importing anyone: they are coming in hope of a better life. Just like your own family did at some point in the past.
And third world is an archaic term.
Tell me you have never been to a Third World country without telling me you've never been to a Third World country.
I’m telling you you’re out of line blaming immigrants, since Americans are all immigrants.
Look to yourself and those who think like you for the problems we face in America today. It’s the evil within us….and I’m afraid that means you and your ilk
Been in a hospital lately? Nursing home? Restaurant? And southern and Eastern Europe were definitely considered third world. Don’t even get me started about Ireland. FFS.
They are traitors to humanity and their nation. Do unto others.
Wow. Just . . . wow.
Nope.
That’s all a fairy tale. You are not born to be ruled by a sovereign of no lord. But that is what the social contract states. Why do you think Frédéric Bastiat screamed, “Oh, Rousseau! What have you done to our people?!”
The state doesn't issue unspoken social norms.
I don’t know what that has to do with the fraud of the social contract?
I have Frédéric Bastiat's, "The Law", handy. The last two paragraphs feel ripped from the headlines instead of 1850.
Let us try Liberty
God has given all men all that is necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided a social form as well as a human form. And these social organs of persons are so constituted that they will develop themselves harmoniously I the clean air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, chains and hooks, and pincers! Away with their artificial systems! Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs, their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their regulations,mtheir equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations!
And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futile inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and His works.
Great ref. I am a big F. B fan.
I am looking up the definition of the social contract. I didn't realize how contested the definition actually is. Very interesting, and no wonder as it sits at the feet of the very fundamental yet controversial tenet of land ownership. I guess Locke makes the most sense to me upon a cursory skim and is closer to what I believed the definition to be.
"Locke thus stated one of the fundamental principles of political liberalism: that there can be no subjection to power without consent—though once political society has been founded, citizens are obligated to accept the decisions of a majority of their number. Such decisions are made on behalf of the majority by the legislature, though the ultimate power of choosing the legislature rests with the people; and even the powers of the legislature are not absolute, because the law of nature remains as a permanent standard and as a principle of protection against arbitrary authority."
I suppose I should have said *anti-federalist* founders. Yankees were corrupting influences even then.
“the ultimate power of choosing the legislature rests with the people”
I think that the founders objections to political parties is substantiated by current perversions, theft, and fraud which invalidate Locke’s reasonable assumptions underlying his arguments. It just ain’t so.
I've been noticing more and more animosity towards myself by younger men. In two cases they were pastors of all people. They want to blame someone for their ills and instead of looking at the institutions that are behind this mess, like the Federal Reserve and government itself, they look at their neighbor who busted his ass off for the time he did to pay for that house, and since everything is so out of whack because of the Fed, they don't see the forest due to the trees. It's easier to blame someone than it is to seek out the true cause of your dilemma and blame the system that caused it. And when you're on a fixed "income" and the rent on your paid off home keeps going up due to inflated values placed on it, what is left to do except try to wake people up! That's where I place my effort these days. Realized it isn't MY fault that the home I bought for $80 K is now SUPPOSEDLY worth $180K. And my RENT has increased to over $100 a month in Arkansas. Some places a home like mine would be worth a million or more and the rent would be in the 10s of thousands. I say rent because that is what PROPERTY TAXES are. The 1st plank of the communist manifesto's 10 planks. They pay for the 10th plank. https://www.courageouslion.us/p/communism-american-style
Yeah baby, tell it like it is. Government trolls are fanning the flames because they want to get rid of the social security ranks. If vaccines don’t work, Maybe lynching will? Oldest play in the book.
Yep! I can tell the way the kids look at me, they don't trust me and they'd sooner shoot me than say "Good morning," or "Have a nice day."
....and I'm next generation. My sister who is 3 years and 5 months older than me is "boomer" generation.
Rubbish. Under the American constitutional system, ALL law enforcement is LOCAL. Without LOCAL property taxes, there is either no police protection AT ALL or we would have had a NATIONAL police force like nearly every other country in the world. So would you prefer a NATIONAL police force to paying LOCAL property taxes? Or no police at all? If your LOCAL property taxes are too high in your opinion, then why did YOU vote for them? And yes, you DID vote for them, so don't pretend that you did not.
Then I guess you are not aware that the lion's share of property tax revenue is allocated to the schools and not law enforcement. So government is confiscating our wealth to brain wash our kids and not to protect it's citizens.
Well, you guess wrong. But nobody is forced to hand their children over to be brainwashed by government schools--and you are right about the brainwashing. There are numerous alternatives to government schools. But that has nothing to do with the fact that we have local law enforcement, not national police forces as most countries have.
The point is this: Do you want a national police force over which you could have no control whatsoever, or do you want law enforcement to be local? Americans have never had anything other than LOCAL law enforcement under the American constitutional system. It is one of the main reasons that our people have been the freest in the world.
As for "confiscation," the local taxes that pay for the brainwashing of our children are approved by LOCAL voters. And the law enforcement expenses are also approved by local voters--meaning you, whether you vote or not.
Your reply to me is a dodge. Schools and law enforcement expenses are paid for by LOCAL property taxes, which are approved LOCALLY by LOCAL voters, so there is no "confiscation." Income taxes--yes--THAT is confiscation because they are blatantly unconstitutional, being direct taxes, not apportioned taxes as the Constitution requires. But your local property taxes are approved by you and other LOCAL voters.
Look, you and I are on the same side. But it is simply not true that local taxes are confiscated. LOCAL control of law enforcement is part of the genius of the American constitutional system. Schools are unrelated to the question at hand. That is a separate issue, although I totally agree with you that they are worse than useless,, b/c they are actively harmful, but the solution to that problem is LOCAL.
If you know somebody who wants to get schooling for their children but thinks that he cannot afford it, reply to me, and I'll hook you up with a fully accredited diploma-granting school where the tuition is free of charge for the elementary grades and very affordable for the high school. It is 100% online. There is no reason why any parent has to hand his children over to the Godless government schools.
No body knows what people voted for in local elections, including their neighbors. A secret ballot means there is no way to verify if your vote was counted as you wanted or not.
The point is, the part of my property tax that goes for law enforcement is fine with me. The majority, which goes to teach kids that there are unlimited genders, that white people are specialy priviliged and therefore should be limited, or that their country is evil and should be hated, is not fine with me.
The coming storm? Yeah you really don’t have enough hard friends and ammo.
I am a “lucky boomer?” Born in 1958. I worked hard all my life, we common folks have too. Now that I am retired I volunteer at state parks, last summer when it was busy I logged 50 or more hours a week, this was common. What I have observed over the last few decades is that most of the teen to 30ish citizens are worthless. And it’s complicated to point to the one influencing factor for this. If I had too I would point to all the digital social systems and the readily available communication devices, (phones, pads, laptops). For the most part they are either frail pasty white, or obese. Then ones in between will have a phone in their face constantly like it’s a life support item. My point is this, even if grandpa or grandma left little Johnny the MacMansion or the farm, little Johnny would be clueless to keep it going much less keep it as a personal property as the state would eventually steel it, (taxes). (WRSA posted a video from North Korea about phones and their power.)
The federal reserve is not, and we here, all know that.
Thanks again Matt.
Saber 7
Oh really? You are bitching about perceived crimes than real. How much of that "chinese" stuff do you own? All of us got screwed by the "rich" not boomers. It's not their age bracket it's their behaviour. There are a lot of rich ass gen z and worse, influencers of all things which your gen flock to like geese to a pond. Boomers have far worse crimes to their credit. Greed is an individual crime that crosses all barriers. Sorry charlie that boat don't float.
These are the wealthy liberal TDS boomers with too much time on their hands. The boomers working at the Walmart checkout or home enjoying their grandchildren have no time for standing outside holding up signs for George Soros.
Yes, our future will devolve into the Hell that Matt so accurately predicts.
How I’ll it start ? He gives various reasons, but there are many others. Regardless, when the grid goes, food availability goes ! No way around that fact. Even if you live next to a Kroger distribution center, the food will go fast. Spoilage, rampant thefts-looting, communication breakdown, fuel not delivered/replaced, farmer produce left in fields that won’t be harvested, foods harvested in storage that won’t be processed/delivered, medicines disappear…..
BINGO !! You are now faced with 16 th Century life style without the hardiness and community of those pioneers.
Wanna live longer ?? GET OUT OF THE CITIES !! Learn to grow and forage wild vegetation. Find your own tribe of like minded survivors to rebuild trust
Lastly, but should be first: GET RIGHT WITH GOD. !!
I have been trying to spread awareness and build community for five years to no avail. No one wants to hear it. The Boomers don't have a monopoly on short sighted greed, selfishness, and arrogance. Just add sloth and smugness and, whaaa laa, you've got the average Millenial.
My in laws only care about their timeshare in Mexico 3 to 4 times a year. Trips to Europe. Most people over 50 are very overweight and out of shape and need a meadly of medicine. We tried to help my mom out, she didn't like my husband. He tried everything. Yardwork, house work, cooking, bought a massage chair for her. She wanted a porch, he offered to build. Nope. Stain the house, nope. Drove her to where she needed to go. None of it was good enough. We left. Now she has cancer, lives alone and people trying to figure out how to get her places. We were there for her. She clearly didn't want us. My inlaws are manipulative, wealthy and gluttonous. We just want to love and take care of our parents. We just want them in our lives. They make it so hard.
My mother must have fallen from the same Boomer tree as your in-laws did. I am challenged daily by her behavior. She has a degenerative eye condition that will eventually take her sight. I moved in with her 13 years ago to help her keep as much independence as possible and to help me as well because I was working three jobs and still struggling to make ends meet. In exchange for that decision, she has managed to make me regret every moment since. A little over a year ago, after an event that made me realize just how deeply she needs to disparage me within every context of life, I stopped speaking with her to limit her damage.
When my Dad had cancer I moved back in with them. At the time I was single. No children. I had 2 jobs and helped him get to every appointment and every meal. All his medicine, took notes when the doctors spoke, even made him pot peanut butter cookies to eat more. He was grateful and loved having me there. Different with her. Sometimes parents just aren't what you think they are. Or hope they are. Sorry you had to go through that. Take care.
Wow, very sad. But I don't blame you.
I don’t think you should paint all boomers with the same brush. Your in-law seem unreal almost as if you fabricated this story. Trolling much?
I also didn't paint all boomers. I painted 3. 🫠
Yep, I needed these 3 likes to keep my day going. Lol.
My mother in law is exactly the same, never satisfied and she was born in the early 30's. More here at work than meets the eye. Good of you to try though to help and good on your husband despite being disliked!
Thank you very much. You take care.
Its amazing how people just dont see it even though it keeps getting closer
Speaking of Matt's books. At least the older generation is not as tasty and has tougher meat than younger ones.
You still clinging to Vietnam after all these years? Have you no actual identity of your own?
It was a lesson not an identity.
Troll
Absolute truth Matt. I tried working as an on the road tech for a small company last year to take me into a final year or two of income before pulling the plug to retire. The shop had two 30-year-olds running the dispatch and the shop/warehouse. They both resented me and really, any of the other techs who were older than they were and had much knowledge. Whenever the owner was out of town, they would turn my life into a living hell. I lasted 4 months and then called it quits. I can tell you; I won't be checking who they are or what they want when they make their move. However, many come at me before I go down will be how many I take with me. I know that's not what you want to hear and that's not the way I wanted to go out but if you look that same age group, they're only ones who knew what America 1.0 was all about. Anybody after '64, never probably drove or a new AMC vehicle or went with mom and dad to buy shoes at Kinney's or ever heard the jingle from McDonald's about "feed a family of four for under a dollar". Remember those days, Matt? After the gold standard was parked, it became "Feed a Family of Four for under Four Dollars". How many of them remember Chrysler getting government guaranteed loans and not government loans as lore has changed it into? How many remember the M1 Tank program being sold off to GM after Chrysler had to let it go in the bankruptcy? How many of them remember Obama, taking control of the auto companies illegally and then closing plants and moving them to China, via their friends in the UAW? How many remember cash-for-clunkers, purposefully destroying the used car market and taking away transportation choices for all lower income Americans? The new car market sucked, as it does now. That was Obama and the GOP stood silent with their fingers pulling their back pockets open to try and catch the free money, printed from whole cloth to further sink us into debt? And how interesting it is, that I blame my parents' generations for playing, "trust the plan" called the Constitution that got us into this Socialist disaster. Even the WWI generation carries blame. But as you clearly state, it won't matter in the end. The CD manual is a must.
Have a Happy Easter Matt and all of you who follow!
Yours in liberty,
Vince
I remember all that, Vince.
I almost feel as though we should work out some kind of test for those gen X and Zers for the future, should they claim to be on "our side". Perhaps something in a WW2 prison camp style such as "who won the world series" or "what was Ted Williams batting average". I wonder what that could be like? Perhaps, who were the sides of the 1776 Revolution? Thanks for tapping in Kathy!
Vince
Truthfully I don't care what any of them think. I mark them all as enemies until they prove otherwise. To do the opposite is to commit suicide.
It's all a rich man's trick. Our generation has things to answer for but screwing their kids out a living is a time honoured shaft for uncaring greedy bastards across the centuries. The very rich laugh as they breed contention among the unwashed masses. Some day those masses will be like the hungry in Paris before the revolution and their financial isolation will do little for them as it did nothing for the rich in those days.
Even without civil unrest Boomers are looking at a grim future. When an elderly and overwhelmingly White cohort is demanding money in the form of Social Security and that is pitted against a mostly non-White working population, who are politicians going to listen to? They alienated younger Whites so their list of political allies will get thin the older they get and the more they die off.
Every age cohort born after 1938 will pay more into SS than they receive. This includes all Boomers and most living Silents
I have paid into SS my entire adult life and at 62 years of age I know, damn well, I will receive non of it. The big boys looted that in the 70's. Everything since then has been a shell game hiding that fact.
What social security recipients get every month is borrowed money, not the taxes they paid into it.
Yes, I am aware of that. SS has nothing to do with "social security" but you have no choice in the funds being removed from your earned income. All with a "promise" of support when you can no longer work.
Yes, they did, and they continue to look for new, untraceable sources of grift, and won't even acknowledge what they did. LBJ, Unified Budget, 1968. Took it ALL OUT.
Yes, but if reality kicks in maybe they will realize it isn't the boomers at all. It's the SYSTEM that it is all based on for you see...
"The Federal Government, with the cooperation of the Federal Reserve, has the inherent power to create money--almost any amount of it."
~ The National Debt, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, p. 8
ALMOST? Why only ALMOST? What keeps them from creating ALL they want? You? Me? Your dog? A full moon? The only reason for taxes at the federal level is to make you "believe" they need them and to impart value in your mind on fake fiat currency. Did it work? Social Security isn't threated by lack of funds. They can create ALL they need or want at a keyboard on a computer.
Federal Reserve Notes are not federal, represent no monetary reserves and no longer conform to the definition of notes. Failing to state who, will pay what, when or to whom - they ceased to be legal tender notes, (offers of money) almost 60 years ago. They are in fact instruments of legalized THEFT.
"...Keynes argues that inflation is a 'method of taxation' which the government uses to 'secure the command over real resources, resources just as real as those obtained by [ordinary] taxation'. 'What is raised by printing notes, ' he writes, is just as much taken from the public as is a beer duty or an income tax.' "
- 1980 Annual Report, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, pg 10
"All the paper money issued today is Federal Reserve notes. The real backing for the nation's money is faith in the strength, soundness and stability of the American economy."
~ The Hats the Federal Reserve Wears, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, pg 4
Faith is what backs our monetary system. YOUR faith. Do you still have faith?
"When plunder has become a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
~ Frederic Bastiat in "The Law"
"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation,
governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
~ 1980 Annual Report, Federal Reserve
Bank of Richmond, pg 6
Isn't confiscation of the wealth of the citizens a nice way of saying STEALING?
"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience." ~ John Locke (1690)
If the money you earn has no value and you are forced through fiat paper legislation to take it for your labor, are you not having your property (labor) destroyed and are you not being reduced to nothing but slavery? Is not the state at war with the people?
5th Plank Communist Manifesto: Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
The Federal Reserve System, created by the Federal Reserve Act of Congress in 1913, is indeed such a “national bank” and it politically manipulates interest rates and holds a monopoly on legal counterfeiting in the United States. This is exactly what Marx had in mind and completely fulfills this plank, another major socialist objective. Yet, most Americans naively believe the U.S. of A. is far from a Marxist or socialist nation.
"The writers of the constitution knew exactly what they were doing when they wrote in Article I Section 10 paragraph 1 'No state shall... make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. ' People able to barter with gold and silver coin control government and are free. Loss of the right to trade in gold and silver coin enslaves people to the creators of psychological 'money.'":
-Merrill Jenkins, Sr.,
Money - The Greatest Hoax on Earth
Yes, but the incessant drone of mass media and education will blame the boomers despite the evidence. Hitler needed an enemy and so will the Democrats.
The building tension against the boomer generation will be stoked and used for great advantage, the system is built by evil men not stupid men. The Boomer did sit on exceptional opportunity but they did have to work for it. Unfortunately, they have earned a large portion of the animosity they are receiving. A common bumper sticker in the 80's was "I am spending my children's inheritance ". As far as gross generalizations go, that mentality fits the boomer mentality to a T.
probably the silent generation rather than a boomer had that bumper sticker. The oldest boomer would have been 34 in 1980. No one ever blames the generation that allowed the fed reserve and income tax in 1913. Or the greatest generation and the silent generation for anything. Tom hayden and jane fonda were silent generation. they had lots of company.
The bumper stickers were on huge RV's purchased by people who retired early. The ability to buy those behemoths ensured no legacy or wealth preservation would be passed on to their children, thus the slogan on the bumper if the actions weren't clear enough. The Baby Boomers are very wedded to the quality of their own experiences. Strengthening the ability of their children to succeed in life? Not so much. Technically, I am considered a boomer since I was born in '63, which feels laughable to me since my parents are also boomers and we have very different priorities.
Whoever had that bumper sticker, maybe it was a joke but in any case an ugly thing to say.
I will say in 1980 those behemoths didn't break the bank, like they do now.
Say what? 🤣
Unfortunately, the haters will not take the time to read your factual statements. Their attention spans have been shortened by the damn computer games they were weaned on.
Well, yeah, it isn't as if they had much choice in paying into social security, so yeah, they're "entitled" to getting some of their money back. Most won't.
Matt, these are boomer lefties who as lefties have a footprint in all generations going back to WW1. If you go to the effort of writing a screed this long you might break the category into constituant parts for accuracy. Right wing boomers voted for Trump and are hated by shitlibs of all generations as much as anyone else.
M B
I believe you nailed another coming period, I predicted years ago something similar also who’s gonna buy up all the overpriced homes and McMansions. I’m a boomer 70’s been blaming boomers for years of fast forwarding the demise of the USA. I was for raising the black flag and slitting throats back in the 60’s and was considered a whack job. History Repeats
Empires have a natural rise and fall. We're clearly on the descent. It all ends someday, either our lives or our society.
The swarming Orcs will have no mercy. Pain will happen. Faith in God paramount. Our kids will step up, or they won't. No guarantees. What's coming is deserved. We got weak. We were gluttonous. We forgot God. Who's surprised?
Be creative. Gird up, even in old age. We older types grew up playing outside, in the cold, heat, mud, snow, wind, rain. The little ingrates are not immune to pain. Once their electricity goes out, they'll be lost.
You might be slower, weaker, tired, sometimes frail. But you're not dead. Trump was 78 yoa and shot. He got up and immediately fought back. You (we) can too. Fight.
Hello Matt,
We have read all your books, own hard copies and on kindle.
We have read several books more than once and more. They
have aged quite well, haven't they? So thank you.
.......15 years ago a was verbally attacked at the place I had to go for PT.
post knee surgery. Suddenly a 20-30 year old male started an angry rant,
talking about Boomers stealing all the wealth and benefits while the younger
generations were suffering and had few opportunities to build wealth.
I turned and saw the man, increasing louder...then realized he was talking about me.
Think the French Revolution, many that were killed were not royals, but people
of any means more than the slave peasants that were hungry.
Three years later we bought an old beat-up farm house and made repairs with
the proceeds of the sale of our suburban house. We are far from rich.
Kind of poor actually but sustainable. People can be envious of others that display
"wealth" to impress neighbors, showing off, so to speak.
Very bad idea actually, and even more so going forward. My used car is + 20 yrs. old.
Works fine still, and I will drive it. And so on. Best regards to you and yours.
I am mistaken for a Boomer although I am a Gen X. But no matter.
Carry a red handkerchief with you when you go to the city to blend in with leftists. In case you are caught in a demonstration or riot.
Envy is one of the seven deadly sins for a reason. The tenth commandment likewise.
good post. envy and jealousy are not good. Memento mori.
wealth display has never impressed me. A rolex or a timex is all the same. And there is always , how much do you owe for that car? And everything else? Even if everything is free and clear, are you living paycheck to paycheck? Still not impressed if the answer is no.
Agreed. Matt and the other comments are spot on…. The trend was set years ago and easy to identify if you weren’t caught up in contemporary political/social babble. Keep up the counter thought gentlemen.
This is a real problem. Far bigger than most can imagine. I briefly addressed this in my last conversation with @coffeeandamike Time stamp ~ 1:32:30 https://youtu.be/q7tuMaCtaQQ?si=frg_s1W8syIOn49b
Thanks for the linkage, Matt.
Who wants to live in a big house by himself? Sounds horrible to me....If I were ever in such a situation, not likely, I would pay one of my kids or grandkids to live with me, or vice versa....
In many countries it’s standard for the aging to live with their children’s families, and once was here. I’m old and living with my daughter, her husband and two grandchildren. Combining assets made it all more affordable. I liked your new book, but that chapter on South Carolina was hard to read, especially since I lived there when in the service.