Linuxluver:
tdgeek:
WTF?
Sorry.
I bought a house when I was 18 with me mate. Sold it as we were immature, but the rent money was great.
Bought another at 23, and another this year, that cost a bunch, and not in AKL
And I as a baby boomer are to blame? I placed a large deposit on first house, 40% cash, an old place in two flats, and on first home that we lived in.
Current place is freehold. So why are baby boomers to blame?
Perhaps I should have not bought, thereby not to blame. probably a click bait at Stuff
Baby boomers voted the neo-liberal policies that have - generally - transferred wealth upward to the few. At the same time they cut the programs they (baby boomers) had benefited from and gave themselves tax cuts. But they voted for industrial and employment polices that weakened unions, flattened wages for the past 10-15 years and reduced job security for most workers.
At the same time they also voted for polices that sees tertiary students mired in debt for most of their 20s and into their 30s....at the same time they are trying to start a family and save for a house. It was always obviously complete madness. We only live so long...and mired in debt for 10-15 years of it while young and starting out was never going to be good. Meanwhile, the baby boomers got degrees for $129 / year, plus books. I know this first hand.
OK...not all baby boomers vote(d) for these crap policies.....and not all people who voted for this rubbish were baby boomers, either.
But it fits, near enough. Who is voting for National now? Whoever they are, they ARE voting for more of them same. They are the ones to blame...and will continue to be the ones to blame if National wins in 2017.
Could not have said it better myself. Agree 1000%.
On top of what others have pointed to, I'll add that baby Boomers as a group own several times more wealth than do the younger groups and seek to maintain that lead while at the same time bemoaning the 'lazyness' of the rest.
My grandmother - of the generation BEFORE the baby boomers - new the hardship of the younger generations we have now. The Great Depression. She always said she 'feared for the young people today', when referring to the actions of her children's generation (the baby boomers). They have, as a group, made a religion of "greed is good".
Well, no one said they were smart. It'll be their indebted, starved and homeless grand children working for subsistence wages that will be looking after them in the rest homes. I bet they'll be full of the milk of human kindness, having been fed a diet of neo-liberal dogma, user pays, cars-as-homes and disenfranchisement all their lives..............