Posted on 03/05/2011 10:04:19 AM PST by Wanderer659
I have often said to my mother, who is a baby boomer and liberal, that my generation (Gen X), would have to clean up the mess that her generation left behind. As time wears on, that statement rings more and more true.
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Not to the extent that those born after them did. Compare voters born 1946-64 to those born 1965-90, and I am virtually certain that in the 2008 election the younger voters voted more for Obama than the boomers did.
Xers are usually 65-80.
If I thought the Xers had any clue at all on identifying the actual destructive force and it’s strategy, intention and agenda within the Boomer generation that actually brought the Nation down, I would have some hope.
Alas, Xers are just as or even more stupid and culturally cleansed as the Boomer useful idiots they are complaining about.
Do they study what exactly happened with the boomers? No. They sit in their cubbys on their computers and whine against moms and pops.
As a Boomer, any Gen X who figures out what is going on with the Marxist killing of this country and actually takes it on with an intellegent and committed plan, has my support.
That would be true.
Besides, taking a mere 16 years (1965-80) as a defineable "generation" is pretty silly anyway. I would think a person born in 1963 ("Boomer") would have more in common with someone born in 1967 ("Xer") than with someone born in 1948 ("Boomer"), who in turn would have more in common with someone born in 1943 (pre-boomer).
The whole notion of these artificially demarcated, brief "generations," that they each have their own distinctive, monolithic values, shared by all in that age cohort and different from those before or those after--I find the notion silly.
I don’t think anyone is saying all of the boomers, but there were enough bad ones in the bunch to make a ton of trouble. For example, the ones that called Vietnam vets “baby killers,” and did everything possible to smear those honorable men.
Agreed. A better way would do it demographically which would look at where the ‘boom’ and the birthrate dropped.
I’m a boomer but not a Liberal. I think a more correct statement would be “we have to clean up the mess that Liberals have created.”
If we were smart, Conservatives would offer scholarships to kids to become teachers, professors as the Liberals have taken over our schools, colleges...and thus branding our next generation with their ideology of anti-america, hate whitey, blame America, school of thought.
Never suggested that you, personally, had. Perhaps the flaw of the article is that it does overgeneralize. There are a number of great points in this discussion thread, so I would say it was very educational.
You are correct. However, later generations did expand, or refuse to reform failed programs to a sufficient degree.
I think the decline in America happened when no fault divorce was invented and then when mothers started working outside of the home. Working parents felt guilty about not being home, so they showered their kids with cars, electronic gadgets, technology, etc to alieve that guilt...
ok, we all screwed-up—now what?
No bs; we just don’t have the time to spare any longer...
1945-1960 is probably a better ‘boom’ and 1960-75 better for generation X if you are defining it by the change in birthrates.
Contrary to what many believe, the echo in 1990 was the highest it had been since 1972. Most of the birthrate since had dropped.
So that would make it 1945-60, 60-75 and 1975-90.
Even the trough of the great depression, more kids were born than in the ‘echo’.
Heck, I'm upset by those same policies, and I'm a boomer.
I don't blame boomers, I blame liberals.
Don't you mean that the Ponzi scheme (Social Security, entitlements, etc.) only works with perpertually increasing SUPPLY?
As more and more age to take their SS, the supply must keep up - and it hasn't. Because more and more people are taking at younger and younger ages (entitlements) and the rest are aborting the supply pool.
No, I meant Demand and I’ll tell you why.
Who’s going to buy the stuff that Americans produce? 90 percent of the economy is domestic.
Abort the kids, that means that the intrinsic demand for inelastic goods will drop by as much as a third. Notwithstanding the contribution of immigration.
The Ponzi Scheme works because young people (you know those folks who aborted), are working, and that there is sufficient demand for there services. With the decrease in the population due to abortion, there is less demand for the services of the same people, because there is less overall demand.
These folks can’t get jobs, how can we expect them to pay into Social Security to pay for the whole Ponzi scheme? You can’t so it collapses.
No bs; we just don’t have the time to spare any longer...
BINGO!
When everyone had to work to keep body and soul together, there wasn't time to sit around and ponder the golden path or whatever. My Grandmother used to say, "Idle hands are the devil's workshop." She was right, even writ large to the entire society.
We no long have time to blame each other, we are in it together, we need to work to fix it rather than wool-gathering by the stream.
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