Posted on 02/07/2016 7:54:04 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
In fairness, I think Code Toad is one of us BBers who
was addressing Death Before Dishonor.
Later
Your post is amusing. The reason is that you are correct in passing the blame onto the generation prior to the boomers. But you are missing something: there is an entire generation born from 1924-1944 who did not (generally) participate in WWII. But they had to deal with the depression as very young children. This is called the Silent Generation.
They are the children of WWI vets. They were Korean War vets. They liked IKE and JFK. That is the group that was generally in charge of government and business from the mid sixties to the mid eighties. Their most well known people were MLK, Neil Armstrong, etc. many fought in Vietnam Nam. They are the ONLY generation in American History not to elect a President. That tells you how ineffective and weak they are.
These things go in four gen cycles. The Millenials are the start of another cycle. Those in the first cycle are the “heroes” who deal with economic hardship and major wars: the Revolution, The Civil War, WWII, etc. they are responsible for hardships and significant upheaval.
For everything there is a season.
It was the Boomers who went to Vietnam that were betrayed by those of “The Greatest Generation”. We would never know real victory again.
Oops you are right! I posted a lot of articles today and now I’ve gotten mixed up which ones I posted.
However, my point still stands. You could just politely notify the original poster that he/she left off the author and I bet they would get a moderator to add the information.
Generalize much? There are losers in every generation. And it sometimes seems like the percentage of losers goes up a little each generation....
Anything using generational terms to describe behavior is sociology. And that is a demographic term...not a social worker” or “socialist.” It is the study of interactive and environmental behavior between and amongst people of common cohorts.
I like boomers, but its simply a fact that all the entitlements they’ve voted for themselves are going to bankrupt me, and the country.
Actually, we have several defined benefit pensions from defense contractors, so that is not a generalization one can make. However, you other points are valid. What did America in is when the “Greatest Generation” let the leftists get away with taking God out of the Public Square. By not reversing the 1963 School Prayer decision with a Constitutional Amendment, the “Greatest Generation” started us Slouching Towards Gomorrah.
The name has been added. I was just using the oversight of the original poster to subtly address the very well known perception of younger Americans as “slackers,” as one of them gleefully points the finger of blame for all of the world’s ills at the members of my generation.
They were betrayed by the Silent Gen.
These were the younger members of the LBJ and Nixon administration. Think about the d-bags in the movie Animal House. Those guys were not boomers. They were the tail end of the Silents. They always new the Pax Americana world. They thought they could do anything and the prosperity would grow forever.
Writing “Boomers suck” is sociology? Well okay then. But you don’t really expect to be taken seriously, do you?
This is the problem with HUGE government run systems like Medicare, SS, Medicaid etc. Once they get started they are very hard to get rid of. Especially if you REQUIRE people to pay into them.
The best thing to do now is to slowly wind them down and then don’t start any more of them.
Most people who are in the system now did not start the system and, though they use it, they don’t understand the unsustainable nature of it. IOW they use it in good faith, not understanding that it is a bankrupt unsustainable system. They were lied to by the people who set it up.
In any case, it may fail on its own and then the problem will be solved ... unless we start more HUGE government programs of a similar nature.
Hussein has been leading from behind for nearly two terms. It’s like Rush says, Hussein cant be seen to be in charge of anything or else he’d have to be accountable. You drank the koolaid and now you want to blame someone other than the person who is responsible. Epic fail on your part.
You were robbed by the government. The government gave that money to your grandparents. Now you rob your children via the government because youre mad at your grandparents. The people that robbed you are dead and gone. Stop robbing your children.
Screw you and the article’s author
The wife and I are Boomers...and proud of it. While we’re not rich, we’re comfortable. We’ve worked hard and achieved quite a bit in life. The only debt we have is a mortgage...and, at 3.375%, we have no interest in paying it off...even though we could Monday morning. We have two hard-working, high-achieving kids. When the wife and I leave this world, we’ll leave a nice nest egg for the kids. I have every confidence they’ll handle it responsibly. We respected our parents and took care of them as they aged and passed on. I’m comfortable my kid’s will make the same effort.
Oh...to the original poster...if you’re going to start a thread, use the correct article title and publication date (Baby Boomers: Five Reasons They Are Our Worst Generation, DECEMBER 13, 2013.
I despise humans. No offense, nothing personal. Just despise all of humanity.
Which entitlements, exactly, did Boomers vote for themselves? Can you name them?
The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt on August 14, 1935
Medicare was signed into law in 1965 which means it was winding is way through Congress for several years before that ... by people who were voted into office much earlier than 1963 when the oldest boomer could vote.
The largest chunk of Boomers are not even retirement age yet. The media has successfully convinced people that Boomers are all older retired people. The vast majority of Boomers are still under age 65!
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