To the Editor:

If you’re looking to blame anyone for inflation, don’t blame Millenials, who you think “don’t want to work.” The fault for inflation, like the fault for most of what’s wrong with America, rests squarely on the shoulders of the Baby Boomers, who’ve been ruining this country since they began voting for Reagan in the ‘80s.

We Millenials aren’t young and lazy. We’re well past college, ages 26 to 41, we’re old enough to remember 9/11, we just weren’t old enough to legally drink yet. And, thanks to the Baby Boomers, we’ll never be able to get out of debt, no matter how much avocado toast we eat. And avocado toast isn’t that expensive! Once you add bottomless brunch, it’s well worth the price after four or five mimosas and bloody Mary’s.

Millenials have to work too hard just to buy homes we still can’t afford. Unlike Boomers, Millenials didn’t have everything handed to them. Boomers had parents who literally saved humanity during World War II, then ushered in the greatest era of American prosperity in the 1950s and ‘60s, marked by labor unions, strong worker protections, and high taxes on the rich that reached up to a 91% top marginal rate. Boomers, born from 1946 to 1964, got to inherit mommy and daddy’s wealth, begin their work careers in the late ‘60s, ‘70s, and 80s, and benefit from strong labor protections, only to ruin it for their children and grandchildren by electing Ronald Reagan and ushering in 40 years of deregulation, wage stagnation, union busting, and environmental destruction. And then Boomers have the gall to tell us younger Americans to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.

A decade ago, Millenials were stuck in low wage jobs, because Boomers were still hogging the good ones. Now Boomers are retiring, and Millenials are finally able to have some leverage in the labor market, only to get blamed because low wage jobs go unfilled.

Sorry, but the Boomers are ruining America. Of course, #NotAllBoomers. My parents are Boomers, and they’re pretty cool. So’s Barack Obama, at the very least our greatest president since LBJ. But what happened to the hippies who protested the Vietnam War? They’re obviously just a minority of Boomers. Boomers voted for Trump, not us younger folks. Boomers are the reason we can’t have universal healthcare or student loan debt forgiveness. Boomers are the reason the planet is burning.

Sean Pidgeon
Morristown