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By TreyS (registered) | Posted May 01, 2011 at 21:15:54
5 years ago the economists were warning us that with the massive retirement of the baby boomers we'd be in a labour shortage.
hmmm how things changed. the 18-35 year old demographic has an unemployment rate around 16% double the national rate. So when are the baby boomers going to retire? move on people and let the next generation make some money too.
Besides us having to clean up their environmental and sprawl mess, they hang on to their 6-figure jobs until they're 70 now. Please step aside. It's amazing how the baby boomers embraced the Woodstock trend only to eventually get jobs and become the establishment that they were so 'anti' against. The wealthiest generation in history forgot about what their Woodstock years meant.
Back then if you graduated from Mohawk you could write your ticket to a safe secure high paying job. Heck grade 10 would get you a good paying factory job for life. Now, getting a B.A. means nothing, and guess who's deciding if our university degrees are worth anything when applying for a job... a baby boomer. sitting there reading our resumes that have double their education and understanding of the new economy and still don't hire young people. In fact when they need to make budget cuts, in a depression, to save their own ass they lay-off three 30-year olds, with university degrees barely making $40k, to make up for their one wage.
I hope history totally tells the true story about the baby-boomers. The best part is, they can't write it. It has to be following generations that judge the baby-boomers for posterity.
Baby-boomers are bracketed by their parents, "the greatest generation", whom went through two world wars, and the great depression, and between the generation following them that is going through the second great depression and an environmental collapse. It must be nice for them. To make things more sick, the wealthiest generation benefits from not only consuming the planet, but reaps the inheritance from their parents whom saved every penny, only to pass on the largest transfer of wealth in the world's history to only be squandered in Las Vegas and Margarittas in the Caribbean just like Michael Borrelli wrote.
Comment edited by TreyS on 2011-05-01 21:34:07
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