The middle east was destabilized before most Boomers were born or when they were young children. Blaming grandma for people fighting in the Middle East is ridiculous.

> expect to be taken care of by social security and medicaid during retirement.

Social Security was created in 1935 before a single Boomer was born. Medicaid was created in 1965. Boomers would at most be 20 years old or at minimum 1.

> thrust us into many unwinnable wars

Young people actually supported the Iraq War at a higher rate than did older Americans.

http://www.people-press.org/2002/10/17/generations-divide-ov...

Thanks, boomers, for de-regulating banks, leading to financial instability that continues to this day.

Thanks, boomers, for the 2007 Great Recession.

Thanks, boomers, for buying up homes in 2008 at a discount, and selling it back to the next generation at an exorbitant price. Your "investment" is literally why we have a housing crisis.

Thanks, boomers, for the massive mismanagement of federal, and local governments.

Thanks for the wars, boomers.

Thanks, boomers, for some historical wage stagnation.

It's no surprise that people are struggling to afford a home, and waiting to start a family.

Is this a national problem you're seeing, or one specific to CA/NYC/etc.? I suspect it much be a local problem, since I can't see doctors, lawyers, and programmers having a hard time affording a home outside a few very specific locations.

That said, I think the housing "crisis" is really specific to certain areas. In CA what we're seeing is that it's very hard to afford a home in certain areas.

The creation of the automobile opened up a ton of land for new, cheap housing. That lasted for a few decades, but the land is now developed and the population is much larger and evermore urban, so the gold rush is over.

There may be a chance to develop our way to cheaper housing, but you'll be getting less land and less space for more money.

My wife and I hold "great" jobs right now. Some of the best in the nation. Yet we can't afford anything close to what our parents could when they were 10 years younger than we are now.

And it just pisses me off to no end when we see shit like this from the boomers:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/15/news/millennials-home-buying...

These people have no idea how lucky and easy they had it compared to what young people are dealing with now. The deck, is stacked.

Boomers aren’t a homogeneous whole we can point a finger at and lay blame.

Some Boomers, sure.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/11/identity-politics-an...

"A particularly potent political grouping would be for older people, particularly retirees, to team up with young people on economic issues. So it’s not surprising that some political mavens are trying to make sure that doesn’t happen. One of the strategies of the plutocrats comes from financier Jay Gould : “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half,” except this time, they aren’t even having to hire one half to turn it against the other.

Just as I’ve noticed an sharp uptick in women’s identity articles, I’ve also seen a ramping up of generational warfare and anti-baby-boomer messaging (I have as much antipathy towards broad comments about baby boomers as I do women). This phenomenon admittedly has deeper roots, since billionaire Pete Peterson has been campaigning against Social Security and Medicare since the mid 1980s, and presenting old people as something society can’t afford is part of his strategy. But he’s been joined by fresh troops, such as Fix the Debt and billionaire Stan Druckenmiller’s overt campaign to turn young people against older ones, The Can Kicks Back."