To Shark and Breckenridge — Step back and take some deep breaths! Of course the baby boomers appear to be taking up all the jobs. Bad thing is it is because of the condition of our economy that most of us olders are scared sh*tless and scrambling for ways to provide for our families. And as a boomer myself, I feel it is my demographic group that should shoulder most of the responsibility for our nation’s condition. The reason Congress decided to begin robbing the SS fund those many years ago is because there was so much darn money just sitting there! There were so many boomer workers filling up those coffers. Now, not so many (comparatively). Secondly, the nature of jobs has changed how many times in the past 40 years? Industrial, technological, financial.... you need to understand that it WILL be up to the YOUNGER generations to define how America will again gain her strength. The established system right now is corrupt. Lets stop trying to prop her back up. Lets begin to think about how to keep what we want from before and build it from there but with honesty and integrity. Believe me, the older generation will support EVERY SINGLE younger who has the heart to be the caretaker of this great nation. All of the comments here on this thread have the same message. Fear. Lets begin to think in a different frame of mind. Like one of invention and passion. The entire world is in a metamorphosis stage and will instantly begin to mold itself around positive energy. Perhaps your destiny lies in being one to cause great things to happen.
“Believe me, the older generation will support EVERY SINGLE younger who has the heart to be the caretaker of this great nation.”
Which is why you’re nominating Romney in opposition to Obama? I see just the opposite. Boomers are doing everything they can to destroy america while they can, and leaving us to foot the bill. Kick the can down the road. Oh, sure, they say they’ll support the younguns who believe in fiscal conservativism and social conservativism, but that’s not true for what they do.
I’ve been fighting for years, and you want to know the people that give me the most trouble? It’s not my peers. My peers are more amenable to the message. It’s the boomers.
You guys had a chance to nominate one of your own who does support us younguns. That was Rick Santorum. And rather then support him, you tossed him aside for Romney. And I’m supposed to believe that you are trying to help us?! I don’t see it.
What I see is a national debt that is run up higher, month after month, and that is going to cripple the nation. And what are boomers doing about it? Are they doing what they can do? No. Not at all, they are increasing spending even more.