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Old 07-17-2012, 04:39 PM   #1
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Are Millennials the Screwed Generation?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newswee...eneration.html

Article in this week's Newsweek(Jul 16, 2012) on how boomers' greed has cost the younger generation.
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Old 07-17-2012, 04:46 PM   #2
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Thanks mom and dad!
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Old 07-17-2012, 05:13 PM   #3
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yep. boomers are the nut low and redefine the word hypocrisy
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Old 07-17-2012, 05:21 PM   #4
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Every generation after SS was invented was supposed to be the "screwed" generation who had all sorts of problems with something something the debt!

I'm sure that this time the doom and gloom forecasts are totally right, though. But excuse me if I don't head for the hills now.
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video games, facebook, and mobile smartphones. what the hell else do you kids want. sure looks like the best of everything.

mobile on demand porn too.
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Old 07-17-2012, 05:34 PM   #6
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Every generation after SS was invented was supposed to be the "screwed" generation who had all sorts of problems with something something the debt!

I'm sure that this time the doom and gloom forecasts are totally right, though. But excuse me if I don't head for the hills now.
While I am not gloom and doom the boomers really are putting together a large debt burden on the backs of this generation. Their debt financed warfare heavily benefited them while financially burdening others. Pretty ****ty behavior.
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Old 07-17-2012, 05:49 PM   #7
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Every generation after SS was invented was supposed to be the "screwed" generation who had all sorts of problems with something something the debt!

I'm sure that this time the doom and gloom forecasts are totally right, though. But excuse me if I don't head for the hills now.
The things we bitch about today have already been bitched about and will continue to be so apparently.

http://zelleworld.blogspot.com/2010/...been-thus.html

The debt is one thing, but I think the crappy parenting of so many baby boomers who wanted to be friends with their kids screws them more.

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They certainly are the whiniest, most self-centered generation.
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Old 07-17-2012, 10:05 PM   #9
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Take the 21-29 crowd. Most are so certain they are smarter than their parents and grandparents. Yet the seniors have stolen them blind.
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Old 07-17-2012, 10:24 PM   #10
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Take the 21-29 crowd. Most are so certain they are smarter than their parents and grandparents.
Of course they think they are smarter, their parents worked hard to build up their self esteem for many years. We should give them a participation trophy for thinking they are smarter, good job kids!
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Old 07-17-2012, 10:26 PM   #11
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Of course they think they are smarter, their parents worked hard to build up their self esteem for many years. We should give them a participation trophy for thinking they are smarter, good job kids!
the smartest people are the ones that repeat awful, force fed memes ad nauseum
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Old 07-17-2012, 10:27 PM   #12
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it's all cuz of the trophies, AMIRITE? if only we hadn't given the fat kid a trophy, we could have saved the world economy!
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In my day we got smacked across the shins if we didn't memorize our times tables. And we were glad to get it!
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The Millenials will live in a world of cold fusion, space elevators, and RFID chips tracking their every movement, indoors, outdoors, obscenely invading our privacies, our privacies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-kMs4dMqKA
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Old 07-18-2012, 09:11 AM   #15
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In my day we got smacked across the shins if we didn't memorize our times tables. And we were glad to get it!
That was before calculators. Today computers make those computations.
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