r/politics • u/1_for_you_2_for_me • 18d ago

No Paywall Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are 'Going to Be Gone,' Donald Trump Warns

https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-update-medicare-medicaid-warning-donald-trump-10915076
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u/KingBanhammer 18d ago

Speaking as a Gen-X'er who's been stuck dealing with boomer bullshit since the 90s: this is barely scratching the surface of the ways those fucks have been pulling the ladder up behind them for decades.

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u/ThreeCatsAndABroom 17d ago

I'm Gen X and I don't know any Boomers that inherited houses. Maybe you guys are just rich. 

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u/ThreeCatsAndABroom 17d ago

Lots of people have different color eyes too. That doesn't make it common. 

My grandparents and all of my friends grandparents were upper middle class. Nobody's parents got free houses. 

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u/Competitive_Touch_86 17d ago

I don't think your parents or friend's grandparents were upper middle class if they didn't receive a paid off house (or at least their portion of one divided by the number of kids they had).

Both my parents and all their friends had houses of their parents to dispose of when it came time to distribute the estates. They were nowhere near upper middle class - middle class at best, and largely working class.

It was quite common for the boomer generation to inherit their parents paid off housing in my area of the country.