5 Reasons why the Baby Boomers are the worst generation ever.

Philly Mag ^ | 1/15/15 | Gene Marks

[Aleya2Fairlie]

“In fairness, I think Code Toad is one of us BBers who
was addressing Death Before Dishonor.”

And you are so right! I intend to apologize right now. That’s what flying off the handle gets me. Thanks for the heads up!

[PGR88]

Which entitlements, exactly, did Boomers vote for themselves? Can you name them?

Off the top of my head: Obamacare, SSI, start of EBT, expansion of SNAP in 2009, S-CHIP, WIC-FMNP. I'll researcher if there are others.

In 2010, entitlement spending had grown to be almost 100 times higher than it was in 1960; it has increased by an explosive 9.5 percent per year for 50 straight years. Entitlement transfer payments to individuals (such as for income, healthcare, age, and unemployment) have been growing twice as fast as per capita income for 20 years, totaling $2.2 trillion in 2010 alone—which was greater than the entire gross domestic product of Italy and roughly the same as the GDP of Great Britain.

In 1960, entitlement spending accounted for less than a third of all federal spending; in 2010, it was just about two thirds of government outlays,

In 2010, America spent well over three times as much on transfer payments to individuals than it did on its entire national security budget - including on both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[MarMema]

Amen

[MarMema]

Thank you!

[4yearlurker]

Lets see...back in the 1950s into the 1960s we were recycling more than now. Diapers,milk,soda pop,butter,pie plates,beer,etc. I'm pushing 60 and had no control when and were I was born and I was volunteered into the Social Security System. Started my first job when I was 12 years old.Young folks today are total spoiled idiots. They wear shorts and a T-shirt outside in the middle of January and walk off cliffs and into traffic staring at those stupid phones. I see many slaves to technology out there. They just cannot think for themselves and look ridiculous holding on to those phones everywhere they go.

[Aleya2Fairlie]

I’m so sorry! I mistakenly addressed my post to you when it should have been addressed to DeathBeforeDishonor. Please excuse me. I was so incensed by this article that I didn’t pay enough attention. Please accept my apologies.

[greene66]

You have that exactly right.

I spent a LOT of my formative years with my grandparents and their friends/peers, and got pretty well-versed in their histories and worldviews. A world in which penny-postcards, dime-novels and toothpick-holders were cherished like jewels. Folks who often had to hunt and garden or go to bed hungry.

Hence, I have so little empathy for the baby-boomers/gen-Xers/millineals, etc., and their various levels of self-absorption and sense of cultural worth.

[CodeToad]

I figured that’s what you did. No worries.

[Renegade]

Thanks for workin’ Dweep as u pay for my Florida vacation for the third time this year!

[Renegade]

Condom failure !!!LOL

[Koracan]

..Baby Boomers are the worst generation ever.

You are just jealous.

me, 66

you, 25

[kaila]

I want my $500,000 back, and your generation should experience the robbery, too. You will change your tune when you get to my age, and huge sums were taken from your paycheck with no payback.

[Chode]

you shoulda done yerself a favor and read the first 50 or so reply's before making that statement...

[Pelham]

So nice to see another dispatch from Generation Whiner.

[AFreeBird]

And therein lies the problem with SS. It’s a PNOZI SCHEME! If it had been properly set up, like an IRA, that money paid in by that person, FOR that person, where government can’t touch it, then it would work, and we wouldn’t have this problem.

But the democrats, FDR, designed the system. Any real legitimate attempts to reform it has the dems robo calling their constituents - the elderly - and telling them those mean old republicans want to take away their SS. Which couldn’t be further from the truth.

We just want to make it work for the individual, and only for the individual. Not the collective.

[kaila]

Yes, the generation before me had it harder. However, when I was growing up we ate hamburger and tuna helper. Powdered Milk. Canned vegetables- because fresh was too expensive. I shopped with my mother who collected coupons , and we would shop at 5 different grocery stores to get all the deals. One tv set in the house. Cheap furniture. A stereo that none of the kids were allowed to touch. We had to work after school to buy a $200 used car. My husband spent half of his childhood in the projects.
I went with my niece ( a millennial) and her mother to buy items for her dorm room. I suggested going to Goodwill for dishes. Nope, she wanted brand new dishes and a $200 bedspread for her dorm room. Computer and television in the room. She was raised spoiled, and that is what I see with this generation.

[AFreeBird]

66!? You have not aged well.

[Pelham]

"Life has been good for you. You're a baby boomer. You were born between 1946 and the early 1960s. You had

polio as a worry. A host of childhood diseases without vaccines. The Cold War. Vietnam and the Draft. Race riots. The drug culture. Wage and price controls. Inflation. Gas lines. Jimmy Carter and more inflation. Globalization with jobs being shipped out of the country. But at least our music was a hell of a lot better.

[Vermont Lt]

Clearly, you are a Boomer. Petulant, arrogant, and right about everything.

[Night Hides Not]

At the ripe old age of 26, I persuaded my German neighbors that Ronald Reagan was the right man to be President in1980. Their media had them convinced that he would start WWIII. Over 2-3 months, I made the case for him, in their language.

For my efforts, I was asked to sit at the stammtisch, a table reserved for family and close friends of the family. Talk to anyone who lived in Germany, and I'll bet you hear that's exceedingly rare.

I've paid into Social Security for over 40 years, buckaroo. Damn right I should receive it.

Up until a few years ago, the power in Congress was wielded primarily by those from the "Greatest Generation."

Your knowledge of contemporary American history is below the Mendoza line.