<rant>
Yep.
All these fucking Baby Boomers. Have their boats, ATVs, massive 5th wheel vacation trailers, and every other toy they can make the monthly payment on.
Yet they're putting the bare minimum into their retirement fund, pay jack shit towards their kid's college (forcing the kid into massive debt to pay for it), and generally behave like short-sighted nimrods with poor life planning skills and poorer impulse control.
Meanwhile,
I'm saving for my retirement (because I know SS isn't going to be there at all),
planning for the day when I have to support at least one of my parents, who just loves her big house, expensive vehicles, 'Boomer Toys (see above), horses, dogs, and fine living ... but hasn't a dime in any sort of retirement fund.
(the other can have my half-sisters take care of him, as that is the family he chose)
already saving for my daughter's college fund (she's 4),
already looking into private schooling for my daughter, as public schooling here is for shit
(No Child Left Behind = every child held back at the level of the dumbest paste-eating window-licker in the county = no funding for Gifted & Talented courses, it's all being spent on remedial paste-eating classes),
Thank fuck I've been fortunate enough to have decent paying jobs.
No fancy cars, just two reliable Subaru sedans, and a modest (rented) house.
Have actual responsibilities to pay for - can't afford to fuck around with huge expensive toys and "living high on the hog", like my parent's generation.
</rant>