[quote=markmax33]…The difference was the system set up by the Baby Boomers! If they hadn’t allowed their kids to walk all over them, this would have never happened.[/quote]
markmax, the majority of boomers’ kids are of the “Gen Y” or “Millennial” generation (born 1979-1998).
Only a small segment of early boomers who had children young, married young, escaped the draft and/or likely did not go to college right out of HS have “Gen X” children who are US citizens (born 1965 – 1978).
The parents of most Gen X-ers were of the WWII-era “Silent” generation (born 1928 to 1945).
The parents of most early/mid Boomers were of the “Greatest Generation” (born 1901 – 1927) and are currently very elderly, if still alive.
Of course there is overlap between the generations of parents of Boomers and Gen-Xers.
[quote=markmax33]The Baby Boomers shouldn’t have agreed to things like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac back in 1970 before the Gen Xers were born..[/quote]
markmax, the only “boomers” that were voting in 1970 were those born between 1946 and 1952 (18-24 year-olds). A large portion of this six-year demographic were FT college students or stationed in Vietnam (or hitchhiking across the continent, lol) and NOT living in their home jurisdiction and thus NOT available and/or registered to vote!
“Absentee ballot voting” did not exist then as we know it today.
Beginning in 1986, the first “Gen X-ers” were allowed to vote. Therefore, we could assume that beginning in (peacetime) 1986, Gen-Xers began voting for their representatives in Congress and State Legislators who have put in place the policies we have today :=]
