Some of the first American soldiers to attack the German defenses in Higgins Boats (LCVPs) approach Omaha Beach near Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. Plastic covers protect the soldier’s weapons against from the water. (Photo by Robert F. Sargent, U.S. Coast Guard/Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)
What we are now…..
An nation that somehow tolerates a demented, senile old parasite as president, one that is in worse physical and mental shape than the 100+ year old Veterans behind him.
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I heard Tucker and a guest castigating Boomers. Carrying on about how horrible we are.
Kind of a gross generalization.
My dad was in one of those boats. He raised me well.
A lot of somebody’s dads screwed up though.
Tough times > tough men > good times > soft men > hard times.
We are due…..
My father flew over enemy territory into flak on nightly bombing raids. He never talked about it. He raised 4 sons and 1 daughter, paid for private schooling and university for all of us. Each of us went on to get post graduate degrees and became productive citizens. None of us has divorced/separated from our spouse, all have raised and educated their kids – school and university. All of them have become productive citizens and started to have their children. None are trannies or sexually confused. It must be in the water or something.
My father was far to young to serve in WWII and not out of high school when Korea kicked off. He did enlist in the Navy in 1956 and served on the USS Independence after it was accepted for service by the Navy in 58′. The last time he put to sea on her, was 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He and the rest of the men on board in the ONI group went ashore to Gitmo to assist the communications command and were under orders to destroy the radio and code room on the base in case it was overrun in the event things went south. Luckily they didn’t and he returned home to Norfolk not long after.
He never told my mother or us boys what exactly he did in the Navy, just talked about life on a Carrier and some ports of call he got to experience. It wasn’t until after he passed that one of his friends filled us in. He finished his time in the Navy as the equivalent of an E6 (Petty officer first class), but held top secret or better security clearance until 1990. On my Mantle is his American Flag from the funeral, a letter thanking us for his service and a special letter of commendation both signed by DJT-45.
From what I see, the war against Boomers is being waged simply as part of the wider front to atomize our culture, western culture. They want all age groups, gender and racial groups as atomized and divided as possible. It’s much easier to manipulate and control the populace if we are divided after all.
“Will ‘stingy’ Boomers help push interest rates lower?”
This is in today’s NZ Herald. Behind a paywall so I can’t read it (not that I would). Just from the headline I would suggest that the author has absolutely no concept of what high inflation is doing to the “retired” boomers wealth. We might not have a mortgage to pay off but our dollar has been reduced in value by a minimum of 20% over the last 4 years whilst our cost of living has gone up relentlessly. These selfish young people will eventually have their salaries catch up with the devaluation and they have many years to catch up on savings – that’s if they are not squandering it on the latest phone technology or vapid entertainment.
Here it’s even worse, entitlements (Social security, medicaid and medicare) consume 55% of the federal budget.
These are systems that we didn’t have any say in their creation or whether we even want to participate in, we just get stuck with the bills. The amount of payroll with holdings that we are being forced to pay, makes it so there is no money left over after basic cost of living expenses. I’m currently making more money than I ever have, but have zero leftover to build retirement. The last year I had a positive balance at the end of the year was 2019. The money I do have socked away is locked up until retirement age (currently 67, but will probably be increased to 72 shortly) and what cash assets I have cost me to keep in the bank 1-1/2% is now considered “great” even though inflation is 3-4 times that.
I don’t live high on the Hog either, home is paid for as are both vehicles. I did catch one break this year, my truck turned 30, so I now have an antique plate and don’t have to shell out for that every year.
But really, the kids just entering the workforce are being beat with a stick. They are the ones paying for their folks social security retirement. SS has always been a Ponzi scheme and now the youngsters are the last ones in and the ones getting shafted by it the hardest.
The shame is, Boomers, Gen X,Y or Z for the most part don’t know who is to blame for this.
The shame is the the Government no matter which party as they have relentlessly devalued what we have worked for time after time.
I agree on the social security retirement fund being a Ponzi scheme, but it didn’t need to be this way if our various governments had protected the value of our money and not relentlessly devalued it to pay off disastrous decisions made by them.
The one thing NZ has got right is the “no fault” Accident Compensation Scheme (ACC) and essentially the inability to sue for medical misadventures. This has kept private medical insurance within reach of the many who want it. Public Healthcare remains bogged down in bureaucracy and unmotivated entitled workers.