The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 44 - Stop Blaming Millennials For Everything

00:00:00.000 So some great news was announced yesterday. Medicare will be insolvent by 2026 and Social

00:00:06.660 Security by 2034. So this means, of course, something that we already knew, but now it

00:00:11.980 makes it official that baby boomers will be the last to enjoy either benefit. Their kids, 0.82

00:00:17.620 the millennials, and the younger generations are paying into this system, financing it,

00:00:23.960 but it will not be there for us. The older generations are draining it dry and leaving

00:00:29.240 nothing for their kids. That's what's happening. How else can you put it? That's what's

00:00:33.200 happening. They are milking this thing dry and just tossing it to the side and saying to their

00:00:40.040 kids' generation, well, see ya. Good luck. Yet the older generations have been completely resistant

00:00:49.020 to any discussion of reforming or changing these programs so that perhaps the programs might be

00:00:56.500 around for their kids. It's something that they won't even let you talk about. If any politician

00:01:03.600 tries to bring it up, and almost none of them do because they all lack the moral courage to do so,

00:01:08.000 even though every single one of them, the politicians, I mean, they all know the reality.

00:01:12.540 They've known the reality of these systems, yet they will not speak truth because the older 1.00

00:01:18.800 generations vote. And they will vote out any politician who speaks up and says, hey, guys,

00:01:26.120 you know, maybe we don't want to steal tens of thousands of dollars from each one of our kids

00:01:33.460 and leave them with nothing. I mean, maybe we don't want to do that. Maybe we should think about

00:01:36.780 something reforming, changing something, making some adjustments here. If any politician does that,

00:01:43.080 they'll just be voted out of office. Now, personally, I would love to do away with Social Security

00:01:49.320 and save for my own retirement. So when I talk about these programs being there for me, I don't

00:01:55.780 want them. But I also don't want to finance them for my entire working life, which will be my entire

00:02:04.200 life because I'm not ever going to get to retire. Nobody in my generation will. But I would like for it

00:02:10.320 just not to exist. And then I can save for my own retirement. I don't need the government to save

00:02:14.740 for retirement for me. It's such a crazy idea. Such a crazy concept. It just, I remember the first

00:02:22.280 time I ever learned about Social Security when I was a kid. And I remember just being flabbergasted by

00:02:28.600 it. Like, what? Why would you want the government to take your money to save it when they're not even

00:02:36.060 really saving it? But even if they were saving, why would you want that? And I continue to be

00:02:42.840 flabbergasted. I have not, I still, to this day, it has been perpetual, a perpetual state of being

00:02:49.780 flabbergasted. I just like the word flabbergasted, as you can tell. I try to work it into conversation as

00:02:55.200 much as I can. So I'd like to do away with it. But older folks say, no, you can't do away with it

00:03:01.060 because we need your money now. And then I say, yeah, but I won't be there for me. And they say,

00:03:07.640 well, not my problem. I'll be dead. So give me your money. That's the way this is, this conversation

00:03:14.260 is going. So it can't be abolished, can't be changed, can't be reformed. And as the last baby

00:03:21.560 boomers are dying off in the 2030s and 2040s, they will take Social Security with them. Now, what I'm 1.00

00:03:28.200 told, I talked about this yesterday, a little bit on Twitter, and I was told by some baby boomers,

00:03:35.700 they, when I said that, you know, they're going to drain this thing dry and leave nothing for their

00:03:39.700 kids. And what I was told by some boomers is, yeah, you're darn right, I'm going to drain it dry.

00:03:44.300 This is my money. Of course, I'm going to drain it dry. It's my money. Yeah, but it's not your money.

00:03:50.800 See, that's the thing. Your money is gone. It is gone, baby, gone. I mean, it's just, it is long gone.

00:04:01.740 I hate to tell you. And I mean, it's a terrible thing, too. So I'm, of course, sympathetic. It's

00:04:06.780 happening to me right now. But you didn't pay into anything. It wasn't being kept in a lockbox

00:04:16.100 somewhere. The government doesn't have a giant vault somewhere where they're keeping all of the

00:04:20.600 Social Security payments, and they've got each thing in a, you know, a nice little, like a bank

00:04:24.880 vault. And each person has, so there are millions of little drawers or something keeping all the

00:04:31.060 money. That's not the way this goes. Your money is gone. It has been stolen by the government, not by us.

00:04:37.680 We didn't have anything to do with it. So this is not your money. It's my money. My generation's money.

00:04:46.100 We are, my generation, we're just starting out in life. Some of us are a little bit further along in

00:04:53.300 that regard than others. We are, we don't have anywhere near the same assets, the same financial

00:04:59.320 security as you do as an older person. Yet, we are being tasked with financing this huge system,

00:05:09.480 this huge, cumbersome, gigantic failing system that will not be there for us. That's the way this is going.

00:05:19.980 It is just a horrible way to do things.

00:05:24.780 You've got the younger generations who have no money and no assets. And I think I looked it up once, I don't

00:05:30.240 remember exactly the statistic, but the average net worth of someone in my generation versus the average

00:05:35.500 net worth of say a baby boomer. I mean, our average net worth is a third or a quarter. Yet, we're the

00:05:41.940 ones who have to finance this thing. And so it kind of leaves, if you're a baby boomer, it leaves you with

00:05:49.960 a choice. You can either insist that we keep this system going as it is now, so that you can make all

00:05:59.540 you can from it by taking from your kid's generation, knowing that it won't be there for us, so you could 0.95

00:06:07.160 do that, which is what essentially we have been doing this whole time. Or you can demand that some

00:06:13.500 changes and reforms be made to it. You can say, I'm willing to make a sacrifice now for my kid's

00:06:19.960 generation, because this is not right, what we're doing. You could say, no, I'm not. Yes, the money

00:06:25.140 was stolen from me. It's a horrible thing. I am not going to demand that I be made whole from the theft

00:06:32.260 that happened to me by stealing from my kids. So I'm going to end this cycle of theft and deception.

00:06:40.360 I don't want it to continue. I'm not going to put it on my kids. So you could say that.

00:06:47.300 It is really just a shame that I have very rarely heard an older person say that. Almost all of them,

00:06:55.540 it seems, are going with the former choice and saying, look, I don't care. I just need to get mine.

00:07:02.020 Which brings me to a point that I want to make. I'll try to be as delicate as I can here.

00:07:08.380 All of this complaining that people do about the millennial generation,

00:07:15.140 calling it entitled and spoiled and selfish and lazy, I just don't see how the older generations, 0.98

00:07:25.640 especially baby boomers, can accuse other people of those sins with a straight face. 0.93

00:07:32.140 Let's review, okay? The baby boomers inherited a prosperous country from their parents,

00:07:38.900 their parents who won World War II and did all those great things. So they inherited a prosperous

00:07:46.360 country from them. They leave behind a bankrupted country, drowning in debt. They inherited a culture

00:07:53.720 with strong nuclear families. They leave behind a legacy of divorce and broken families. And they,

00:07:58.520 in fact, were so terrible at marriage that their kids have given up on marriage, almost entirely.

00:08:04.220 They inherited relatively strong churches. They leave behind empty, decaying churches. And we can go

00:08:10.800 right down the list, looking at things politically and socially. I mean, think about politically.

00:08:17.760 Think about all the baby boomers, baby boomer politicians. Has there been a good one? That's almost 1.00

00:08:24.360 the worst thing about, well, it's not the worst thing. The worst thing is the destruction wrought

00:08:27.260 upon the family by the boomers. But still, politically. So whether you're looking at

00:08:31.460 politically, socially, culturally, we find that the boomers just absolutely decimated everything. 1.00

00:08:40.000 So as the kind of their last and final act, they're going to drain social security dry and leave

00:08:47.580 nothing for their kids. So are millennials entitled and selfish? Yeah, many are. But where do you think

00:08:56.600 they learned it from? Where do you think they picked up the habit? Where did they learn it from?

00:09:03.220 They learned it from the best, clearly. They were tutored. They were under the tutelage of their

00:09:11.560 parents' generation. And now the worst thing about the millennial generation is that they're ending up

00:09:17.360 exactly like their parents. They learned it to be specific from divorced parents who plopped them

00:09:24.620 in front of televisions for their entire childhood, let the media and Hollywood raise their kids so 0.74

00:09:30.420 that they could run out and amass material wealth for themselves at the expenses of their families and

00:09:35.960 their marriages. That's where they learned it. And now these very same people who have been selfish

00:09:42.440 and entitled their entire lives and are leaving behind destruction and ruin from everywhere they

00:09:47.160 went, have the audacity, the gumption to sit back enjoying a retirement that we will never experience

00:09:54.240 on a pension we will never have with social security checks that we will never see and complain about the

00:10:00.080 kids that they screwed up. It's incredible. It's such an incredible dynamic that we're seeing play out.

00:10:07.600 How do we let them get away with it? How do we ever let a boomer complain about anyone, let alone their

00:10:14.000 own kids who are turning out exactly like them? I mean, you have these people who didn't even bother

00:10:24.560 to raise their own kids and are now shocked when they see how their kids are behaving. Now, whenever I

00:10:31.840 point out the cataclysmic awfulness of the boomer generation, and I mean, cataclysmic, I don't know 0.99

00:10:38.020 how else to describe it, especially when you look at what they did to the family and to marriage.

00:10:44.040 But whenever I point this out, I'm scolded for generalizing and for being divisive and for engaging

00:10:49.960 in generational warfare and all that. Now, funnily enough, those very same people who tell me I

00:10:56.760 shouldn't criticize entire generations. They never complain when I criticize millennials, which I do

00:11:02.280 all the time. I criticize my own generation all the time, and I'm quite unforgiving in those 0.97

00:11:06.740 criticisms of my peers and of myself. And whenever I do that, I never hear these people say, well,

00:11:13.040 you know, that's unfair. You shouldn't lump an entire generation together. No, they don't say it

00:11:16.480 then. They only say it when you talk about their generation. So again, we see the boomers expecting 0.53

00:11:20.780 special treatment, which is in keeping with how they've always operated. Now, and I know this

00:11:26.740 obviously does not apply to every boomer. It doesn't apply to my own parents. Hopefully, if

00:11:31.420 you're a boomer watching this or listening to this, it doesn't apply to you. Although I don't know if it

00:11:38.200 does or not, but I mean, only you know. But if you know it doesn't apply to you, then there's no reason

00:11:42.660 to be offended by anything that I'm saying. I'm sure in that case, you agree with me, because just like

00:11:47.540 when people criticize the millennial generation, I generally agree with those criticisms, and I say 1.00

00:11:53.960 so. But it's clear that the boomer generation as a whole has been horrifically historically terrible. 0.97

00:12:00.740 And I do believe that's important to point out for two reasons. Number one, it's just a matter of

00:12:06.500 being honest and just. You know, I can't sit here and allow all the problems in our society to be foisted

00:12:13.040 by the people who caused the problems onto my generation. I just can't, I can't tolerate that.

00:12:19.380 It's not right. It's not just. It's not honest. And so I think in the interest of being honest,

00:12:26.080 it's important to point this out. And I really, I just, I'm sorry, I don't have a lot of sympathy for

00:12:32.800 boomers who whine when their generation is criticized. Millennials are criticized all by everywhere,

00:12:39.740 all the time, constantly, our whole lives. I mean, this is, everything's been, all the problems in

00:12:46.080 society have been put on our shoulders from like, from birth, for goodness sakes. And now you can't

00:12:52.700 handle it when you're criticized a little bit. I mean, cry me a river. Second, if we're ever going

00:12:58.640 to break this cycle, we have to understand where these problems come from and what caused them.

00:13:04.200 To put all the blame on millennials, it's not just unjust and dishonest, but it also precludes us from

00:13:08.400 actually ever solving any problems because we're ignoring the origin of the problems.

00:13:14.380 And where is the origin? Where can you find the origin? Well, as always, it goes back to the family.

00:13:19.240 It goes back to the home. Baby boomers speaking generally. Okay. And that's not true of every 1.00

00:13:23.280 single one individually, as I've already said a million times now, but baby boomers were very, 0.97

00:13:28.160 very bad at marriage and very, very bad at parenting. And I feel that the statistics back me up on that.

00:13:37.160 I mean, look at the divorce rate, especially look at the divorce rate in like the late 80s,

00:13:41.140 early 90s, when, uh, uh, or really throughout the 80s into the early 90s, look at the divorce rate

00:13:46.860 when, when the boomer generation was in kind of prime marrying years, look at the divorce rate.

00:13:54.140 It is just astronomically high. It shot through the roof with the boomer generation. So when I say 1.00

00:14:02.280 they were bad at marriage, I mean, that's an understatement. I'm being very kind putting it that way.

00:14:07.160 And if you're bad at marriage, you're going to be bad at parenting. How do we reverse this trend

00:14:11.480 as millennials? We've got to be able to look at it, be honest about it so that we can reverse, 1.00

00:14:16.460 have some chance of reversing the trend. Well, we reverse it by shifting our focus,

00:14:22.380 by putting our priorities where they belong in the home with our families. We form stable families.

00:14:29.220 We remain loyal to them. We reject materialism, selfishness, greed, secularism, all of these things

00:14:36.060 that our parents' generation embraced. We have to reject. We have to build our families on something

00:14:41.220 stronger than that. That's our only hope. That's our hope of, of, of really making a change. And

00:14:47.040 I mean, I don't have a lot of hope that it will actually happen because I look at my own generation

00:14:52.300 and for the most part, most of us seem to be repeating the same mistakes as our parents.

00:14:59.240 And that's not the case across the board. There, there are pockets of millennials in America

00:15:04.800 who are really rebelling against the rebellion of their parents' generation. Our parents' generation

00:15:11.060 rebelled with drugs and sex and, uh, and, uh, and orgies and STDs. Okay. Um, that's how our,

00:15:19.980 that's how our parents' generation rebelled.

00:15:22.300 If we're going to rebel against them, which we must, and we should, we rebel with a Bible 1.00

00:15:29.960 and by getting married and having kids and staying loyal to our families and praying with

00:15:37.220 our families and going to church. I mean, that's how we rebel. And there are some, some millennial

00:15:43.700 rebels like that. But I think unfortunately those pockets are few and far between where you find

00:15:51.160 them though is a wonderful thing. And you see the hope of tomorrow in those places.

00:15:57.820 I've pointed out before that, uh, in almost every case, the, the best churches that I've been to,

00:16:04.860 the churches that are on fire with the faith are really Orthodox and reverent and really love

00:16:09.820 the faith and truth and are, are, are, are engaging the culture and engaging these,

00:16:14.580 talking about these issues that need to be talked about and are really fighting,

00:16:17.880 you know, where, where you can go and really find the church militant people that are militant

00:16:23.540 about their faith. Um, in almost every case, those are young churches and most of the time led

00:16:29.980 by younger men. And in most every case, the churches that you go to that are just, are shallow and

00:16:39.380 flimsy and secular and pathetic and weak. In almost every case, those are older churches populated by 1.00

00:16:48.740 and led by boomers. And that's not a coincidence. So that shows you, that shows you that there, that,

00:16:54.460 that there are some millennials who are, who have learned the right lessons and are trying to apply them.

00:16:59.640 I just don't know if there are enough, but we have to fight in any case. And we fight by looking at

00:17:05.780 the mistakes that were made, um, looking at, looking where people went off course and then

00:17:11.320 going in the other direction. It's just that, uh, you know, we're, we're going to have to do that

00:17:18.300 without the benefit of social security or retirement or anything like that. But that's the way it goes.

00:17:26.000 No sense of complaining about it. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening, everybody.

00:17:29.640 Godspeed.

00:17:30.780 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - June 06, 2018

Ep. 44 - Stop Blaming Millennials For Everything

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