« on: January 31, 2025, 05:02:49 PM »
As a member of this cohort I am interested in thoughts and opinions... I think I see, understand, and appreciate the various views... but Silver Tsunami seems to be a new term...
https://dnyuz.com/2025/01/31/boomers-as-boogeymen-should-you-fear-the-silver-tsunami/Mad about the price of eggs? How about the dearth of new homes, skyrocketing cost of gold, global warming, the fiscal deficit, prescription drug access, student loan debt, mortgage rates, the decline in (or perhaps the persistence of!) public union rolls, that promotion you didn’t get at work or the soulless corporate hegemony of America’s downtowns?
You could try to parse the interlocking, complicated sociopolitical factors that have convinced many Americans that the economy is in poor straits, and that their lives will be less fruitful than their forefathers’. Or you could blame the baby boomers...
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In a boat at sea one of the men began to bore a hole in the bottom of the boat. On being remonstrating with, he answered, "I am only boring under my own seat." "Yes," said his companions, "but when the sea rushes in we shall all be drowned with you."
