What is there to add? Other than that "may or may not" is an unnecessary equivocation, but equivocation is the hallmark of boomers.
Because, staying with the tactic of gross oversimplification and intellectual dishonesty, it must be because all blog pimps are full of sh#t.
This isn’t anything but one group wanting another group to pay for their expected benefits under a socialist program.
Casting it as anything but that is a red herring.
The "Greatest Generation" should be called the Statist Generation because they gave us the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier and the Great Society. Their legacy is the modern welfare state run by an omnipotent federal government.
The devil has all the haters right where he wants them.
Hehehe.
Boomers ain’t gonna like this!
Boomers were born at the moment where the values, structure, traditions, and strength of the nation had made it the most power country in history. They then indulged in a subculture in the 60s whose whole mission was to bring down all of those things. In the 80s they sorta got their crap together because they now had families to take care of, and all of that left-wing crap they still held to in the 70s didn’t pay the bills. Come the 90s, and the older kids were moving out (Gen X which was somewhat more conservative), they went back to the BS, and hit the PC button until it broke, just in time to warp the heads of Gen Y so that by 2008, we had an army of complete dumbass voters whose #1 issues were their genitals, and getting a check from the government.
I’m a boomer, my parents are still better off than my wife and I, but we are catching up. My children are not so well off as my wife and I. Why? Well the simple answer is that I’m younger than my parents and I’m older than my children.
My parents have had a longer time on this earth to accumulate “things” and they still know more than I and have more experience than I do. My children on the other hand are just starting out on their road through adulthood and have “finally” realized that if they want to get ahead they need to work and do it themselves.
Having it handed to them makes it worthless. It’s only when they have worked and sweated blood to earn what they hold that they know the true worth of those “things”. Before it was an abstract concept, now it is a concrete concept.
So in conclusion, Generation X/Y/Z whatever. Quit being envious and start working for yourselves, the government can only steal so much from us boomers before there isn’t anything left to give to you for your votes.
Well, just to add some perspective, I would guess that a large minority, if not an actual majority, of Freepers are boomers.
Each new generation seems to reflect a new downhill slide. I think “boomers” get a lot of (in many ways, deserved) flack because they appeared to be the first generation that was so obnoxiously self-absorbed, and always touting the moral and cultural superiority of everything about themselves, from their music to thier politics. Previous gnerations just didn’t have that kind of theretofore unseemly, self-reverential mindset.
Music changed because of money. Club owners had the choice of paying for big bands with 20 people being paid musician union wages or four kids getting a set amount of money. The guitar groups added in horns and strings after they were successful and could afford it.
Only we didn't have access to the type of information that young 'uns have now.
We had 3 major TV channels (4 if you include NBC), a local newspaper and local radio.
True, we (and out parents) voted for the miscreants that brought us to where we are today but we are on our way out. We are closer to the end of our lives than the beginning.
I don't blame today's generation for throwing stones at us, but they'd better start putting more energy into trying to fix what's coming down the pike than trying to make us feel guilty about it.
We have much to apologize for, and for what it's worth, I apologize on behalf of Boomers for what we've allowed to happen under our watch.
Now help us correct those mistakes.
WHO FREAKIN CARES what this stupid, whinny idiot has to say? Even if I agreed with her 100% (as an aside, if I did, I’d check myself into a mental institution), I wouldn’t care what she had to say. She isn’t worth listening to.
And being a fellow boomer (1952 in Rochester, NY), I can equivocation-ally agree with you with the caveat that it isn't a 100% deal.
Just because they're the generation who got the bill for FDR's and the 1960s progressives' forced Ponzi schemes, along with all of the big GuvCo pain and none of its promises kept, and all of that will be screwing up the rest of their lives and their kids lives?
Why would they be hatin' on the boomahs?
What's the big deal if we spend their inheritance and a little bit more to live the lives we deserve? Why would they need 'death panels' to take care of us in our old age, after all we've done "for the children", after all we've given them?
Medical Savings Accounts (privatizing health care rather than socializing it)
Expanded Individual Retirement Accounts (allow citizens to invest whatever it is they've contributed to Socialist Security in exchange for dropping out as a recipient)
Repeal Davis-Bacon laws (allow local municipalities to pay going rates for non-union labor instead of artifically inflated rates)
Repeal Daylight Savings (I hate Daylight Savings)
And on a personal scale: Take your kids out of public education
Stand by for more ideas as the coffee kicks in (or beer as the case may be).
It’s not over for us yet.