[qam1]

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Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social (and sometimes nostalgic) aspects that directly effects Generation Reagan / Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.

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[wtc911]

"don't trust anybody over 30" mentality of the Baby Boomers.

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Once more the children on FR show their ignorance in an attempt to punish the adults. The 'don't trust anyone over thirty' cliche came from a MOW called Wild in the Streets...it was written, produced and directed by members of the "greatest generation".

You are such a dope.

[Antonello]

The housing market here in Phoenix is starting to collapse. I’m looking forward to buying a home soon.

[Nervous Tick]

The current generation are less to blame than their Baby Boomer teachers who fancied themselves so smart that they didn't need education. Their mission was to take control of universities, eradicate the classical curriculum that transmitted the values of Western civilization, and to replace it with "relevant" subjects, i.e., the ideology of socialism's revolutionary social justice.

And they hang on, like a bad cold...

[14themunny]

Oh please. Like no one saw this coming. My brother is a real estate broker here in Southern California, and we were joking this morning about how he was selling multi-million dollar houses to crackheads who talked about how thick they wanted the marble on the countertops. No-doc loans. Give me a break.

[Radix]

I will concede that I have some things to learn from younger generations despite their infatuation with body piercing, tattoos, and a God awful excuse for music.

[Old Sarge]

Personally, I don’t trust anyone UNDER thirty...

And for all the identifying of the source of the problem, we all know that absolutely nothing can be done about it.

[sergeantdave]

Collapse of the subprime mortgage market reflects...an opportunity to buy more property at a discount.

Now if only the liberal taxers would also collapse.

[Gorzaloon]

Genrally one of those articles that make me say, "I wish I had written that", except the the weak ending:

Blaming mortgage brokers for the subprime collapse is like blaming alcoholism on the distillers.

The distillers and the mortgage brokers are experts at their product, and they know exactly what their products do, or can do if abused.

One does not distribute nips of whiskey at AA meetings, and is that at all different from issuing bent-rules loans to spendthifts?

[Wolfie]

Oh sure, the scumbags peddling ridiculous mortgages had nothing to do with it. And now they’re whining for the government to bail them out.

[Billthedrill]

This boomer is writing this from a house that I own and is paid for completely out of my own lifelong hard work. I'm getting a little tired of peeling off the tar from the broad brush you're wielding the umpteenth time it slaps across my butt. When you've done this you'll have a right to start smirking at "Boomers." Until then I cordially invite you and the rest of the X'ers to stick a sock in it. IMHO.

[editor-surveyor]

This isn’t a “sub-prime collapse.”

It’s a deliberate systematic overextension of credit to the entire country. The purpose is clear: to sufficiently undermine our currency through infusion of worthless dollars from the fed, purportedly to shore-up bank liquidity, but in reality to bring the dollar even with the peso, so that we can be merged with Mexico.

[Buffettfan]

Great article

[Constantine XIII]

tl;dr

[Clemenza]

It was the boomers who brought us the most prosperous era over the past century of American History. It was the boomers that designed the leveraged buyout (allowing companies with poor credit to raise necessary funds, while adding greater competative efficiency within doddering industries), and overall liberalized the economy through innovation and the repeal of Depression-era restrictions.

I'm sick of this BS about the boomers being "evil narcissists" and their parents being heroes (the WWII generation had plenty of socialists and racists too, and gave us Democratic dominance from the 1950s-early 90s).

[sauropod]

review

[GOP_1900AD]

I could see this coming during the 1980s. Today’s creaky boomers were doing coke and driving Beemers, buying espresso machines and going gaga over “The Big Chill” and “30something.” I realize this is a broad brush, only applicable to well edumacated, middle to upper class boomers, the working class ones were and are different (mostly, due to fighting in Vietnam, or, at least, having accepted the possibility of fighting overseas between ‘75 and say, ‘80, due to other issues). That yuppie mentality now reaps its bitter harvest.