Posted on 02/01/2013 5:18:02 AM PST by xzins
The US Census Bureau, in "The Older Population" indicates that Baby Boomers are defined as follows:
6 The Baby Boom includes people born from mid-1946 to 1964. The Baby Boom is distinguished by a dramatic increase in birth rates following World War II, and is one of the largest generations in U.S. history. For more information, see: Hogan, Perez, and Bell, 2008, Who (Really) Are the First Baby Boomers? In Joint Statistical Meetings Proceedings, Social Statistics Section, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, pp. 1009–1016.
You are now from about 50 to 67 years old, and you are the glad result of WWII and Korean Era parents celebrating an advancing America. You saw the origin of television, the advent of the space program, the determination of the cold war, the fear of nuclear holocaust, the change from slide rules to calculators, the dawn of the computer age, and the wonder of worldwide, at-your-fingertips communication.
You've also seen the nation spiral from a moral beacon of personal and political freedom to the chaos of dependency, distraction, and self-indulgence that defines our entitlement society.
What is your prescription for this America?
What will this nation look like in the year 2030?
Why are you a member/user of Free Republic? How does your being here advance your concerns for your nation?
I probably should have been more clear—the GG were not the generation right before Boomers, that was the part I was quibbling about in the original post.
Apologies TexasFreeper2009, I thought you were saying that the Greatest Gen was the gen right before Boomers, but that wasn’t the case.
Still at it, I see. Curiosly, it doesn't end up being tool abuse.
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