Posted on 09/04/2016 9:59:28 PM PDT by WayneLusvardi
I have seen the best minds of my generation, to steal a phrase from the late Allen Ginsberg, driven to heights of self-absorption, advocating policies that assure the failure of the next. Nothing so suggests the failure of my generation — the boomers — than its two representatives running for president.
What Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump reflect are two sides of the same nasty boomer coin.
On one side, there are aging boomers embracing Trump, an icon of materialistic obsession and a lack of concern for “losers.” On the other is a control-freak determination to tell everyone how to live, with instructions coming from entitled boomer politicians and bureaucrats.
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The median home price in Villa Park, California (Pop. 5,964) already is $1.4 M, and 98% of the houses are owner occupied. So, contrary to Kotkin, resisting school bonds would be an unselfish act if home values would go up, not a selfish act.
The average cost of utilities, insurance and upkeep of a Villa Park home is $833 per month (not including mortgage costs) compared to $493 per month average for California (Source: US Census Bureau). The median household income is $53,482 per year and thus housing costs (excluding a mortgage) reflects 18.7% of their gross income and about 28% of their net income.
Who in their right mind would want to add a "hundred dollars per month or more" for school bonds onto their housing costs in a community that has about 70% higher housing upkeeep and utility expenses than the rest of California?
There are only 1,192 school age children in Villa Park or about 100 children for each school grade (K-12).
Contra Mr. Kotkin, it would be economically irrational for those in Villa Park to want pristine school buildings that might drive them out of their homes especially if California Prop. 13 is ever eliminated.
Yes. The one huge flaw of the so called greatest generation.
Next question.
We took our retirements up front.
We didn’t believe in anything except “if it feels good, do it.”
We convinced ourselves that we were the victims of malevolent circumstance, when in fact we were the most pampered generation in history.
Now we’re trying to burn our playpen because the TV is telling us to.
>>Yes. The one huge flaw of the so called greatest generation.<<
Dr. Spock (not to be confused with Mr.)
On one side, there are aging boomers embracing Trump, an icon of materialistic obsession and a lack of concern for “losers.”...
I’m 48. That doesn’t qualify for baby boomer, I dont think, and I love Trump. What an incredible overgeneralization.
we’re Gen X, the gen after boomers.
Millennials are the worst IMO.
Self indulgent, egotistical, petulant crybabies who think the world owes them a living is what I have seen from the current crop of Boomers. Not including myself, of course. sarc/ off
Boomers per wikipedia:
...post–World War II baby boom approximately between the years 1946 and 1964. This includes people who are between 52 and 70 years old in 2016, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
If millennials are the 20 and 30 somethings, then yes, they are BY FAR, the worst, but to be fair, they were BY FAR the most indoctrinated.
We Xers haven’t done badly for ourselves :)
“On one side, there are aging boomers embracing Trump, an icon of materialistic obsession and a lack of concern for “losers.””
Wait. What? I thought Trump voters WERE losers, you know, uneducated, spam-sucking trailer trash. NOW they’re trying to tell me that Trump voters are non-losers concerned with their materialistic wealth.
I’m getting more whiplash trying to keep up with the conflicting nefariousnesses of the various putative Trump voter-groups than I’d get watching Speedy Gonzales playing a tennis match against himself after snorting crack cocaine.
ONLY MISSED IT BY FOUR YEARS?!?!
I’M OLD AND AND ALONE IN NY!!
Unless you count the wife and the cat.
If the Donald can pull this off and save America, it will be a big redemption for the boomers. Agree the “greatest” generation are the worst parents teaching their children, and they were the stupidest “useful idiots”.
You are a Generation X.
Sounds young.
Donald, as mighty as he is, can’t do it alone. He’s going to need a lot of help of a lot of people, great and small.
Other than your execrable "grunge music" that had me wearing ear plugs at the gym until I fashioned a jammer to kill the radio station they were playing.
Had a couple of X'ers working for me, and we had more than a few differences, but they were not the slacker stereotypes once I got to mentoring them. They would periodically be astounded that I "knew stuff" without looking it up.
So Hillary is NOT materialistic and IS concerned with “losers”?
I stopped reading there. This moron is just going to rehash clichés.
As a fellow GEN X’er, yes.
I despise the millennials.
Bar none, the absolute worst group of people I ever had to work with.
Millennials are soccer mom spawn. Soccer moms are Hillary bots.
Hillary bots are insanity dunked in sludge. What do you think their kids are going to be like?
The Millenials are unreal though. So fragile and yet so self righteous.
One more reason to vote Trump. He’s a baby boomer. It’s going to take a baby boomer to get us out of this mess that our fellow boomers got us into and it will save our rep to have the best president since Reagan
Johnson and Roosevelt helped get us here. Politically speaking - well socially as well. Democrats from all generations
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