[Wanderer659]

The boomers do seem to have done more than their fair share of damage to our Republic.

[ExtremeUnction]

The boomers do seem to have done more than their fair share of damage to our Republic.

Most Freepers are Boomers..

[GenXteacher]

I’m not sure there are enough of us to clean up the mess. X is the smallest generation, after all. What I think is likely is that the Boomers will pass, but X will be eclipsed quickly in influence by the much more numerous Millenials.

[dainbramaged]

Don’t blame all of us, please.

[Rufii]

The boomers do seem to have done more than their fair share of damage to our Republic.

Indeed--by forming groups such as Young Americans for Freedom, Youth for Goldwater, Youth for Reagan, and Young America's Foundation.

[grapeape]

But the question really is, “How did the greatest generation produce the worst generation.” While generation X grew up alone so we have an excuse. We don't have the same training that other generations had. We have an excuse. The Boomers had all the best that America can offer and they still managed to destroy America.

Did they do it because America wasn't perfect enough for them? Are they that pompous? Did they do just because they are jerks? What's the REAL reason?

[SnuffaBolshevik]

"The boomers do seem to have done more than their fair share of damage to our Republic."

Tell it to these boomers, youngun - as soon as your ears get dry.

[Bryanw92]

The Boomers were only the “First Worst” generation. Every generation after them has been bad too. They were the first generation of spoiled brats, but not the last. Just look at the current young adults: they whine about having to “fix the mess” while campaigning for a Marxist who hates America and the free market and actually promised to make energy costs skyrocket. How do they plan to fix the mess when they vote for people that want to destroy the mechanism that would actually have a chance at fixing things? Hopey Changitude?

Here’s a news flash for them: our economy runs on energy. When you restrict energy, you stop the machine. When you restrict energy to fight a boogeyman like Global Cooling/Warming/Climate Change, you are destroying the ability to “fix the mess” for the sake of a lie.

All “their guy” promises is more of the same empty thoughts that characterize the young adult boomers of the late 1960s. In fact, the people they vote for take their marching orders from elderly boomers. The generation that votes for Obama is just the boomers redux...minus the work ethic and morals that people born in the 1950s once had.

[Ballygrl]

I have to agree, the off-spring of the greatest generation has done a lot of damage.

[qam1]

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[mjp]

Then, they created failed program after failed program, all paid for with trillions of borrowed dollars. And when the programs were clearly failures, and, in fact, made things worse, they plodded on. The kept following the leftist narrative

It's the lousy libtard ideas that are causing all the trouble, and any generation that has accepted those ideas is responsible for the consequences.

[jwalsh07]

Evidently Gen X and Gen Y put Obama in office.

How much damage do you think that has done to the Republic?

[Prospero]

Spare me the collectivist nonsense. Whatever unfairness one might perceive in self-identifying as a Generation-X'er or advantage misapplied to a "boomer," all such distinctions are interesting but essentially without much use or meaning.

None of us asked to be born in the first place, nor had we any say in where or when, and we're all in the deep end of the same gene pool.

It's weak argument, borderline bigotry and a dead end path with bedlam as the last house on the block.

If that's not persuasive enough, consider the command of God, which came with a promise: "Honor thy father and mother, that it may go well for you in the land."

[Richard Kimball]

Lemme throw out something as a boomer. The Great Society was a Lyndon Johnson scheme. Social Security was an FDR scheme. Medicare was a Lyndon Johnson scheme. Title VII (EEOC) was passed in 1965, long before boomers had any influence in politics. Title IX was 1972. As a mid-boomer, I was in high school when this was passed.

The key schemes of socialism were passed by FDR and LBJ when most Boomers either hadn't been born or were in elementary or high school. Educational "reforms" were passed and we were the first victims of it. The Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade was in 1973 and all the participants except for Norma McCorvey, who later changed her position and became pro life, were not boomers (Sarah Weddington was born in 1945, prior to the end of the war, so she might be considered one, although baby boomers are normally considered to be those born after the war ended.)

[rabscuttle385]

The boomers do seem to have done more than their fair share of damage to our Republic.

Who said they were the only ones?

The "Greatest Generation" "saved" the U.S. from fascism and national socialism, only to vote it in here at home while leaving it to flourish in Eastern and Central Europe.

Epic fail.

[bwc2221]

I’m a “Boomer” and readily admit that we have pretty much screwed things up. Our parents, who were Depression Babies or the World’s Greatest generation wanted to give us all the things they didn’t have.

In our generation, divorces skyrocketed and births dropped (because of the “pill” and abortion). We have unrealistic demands and we didn’t produce enough offspring to cover the cost of it.

[Route797]

I've always wondered about the differences between people who were born on December 31 of the last year of one “generation” and those born on January 1 of the first year of the next “generation”. Hypothetically, there could be twins, one born at 11:57, an evil “Boomer”, the other born at 12:02, a noble “Gen-Xer”. Do they live their lives in perpetual hate and contempt for each other? Do the iron bonds of generational solidarity override their sibling love?

We're supposed to be divided; by economic status, by political beliefs, by conditions of employment, by region, by race, by our interests and hobbies, by whether we work for government or the private sector, even by what style clothes we wear and what sort of music we listen to. We're supposed to take these trivialities and use them to look at others by the standard of “us vs them”. We're supposed to magnify our differences and overlook our similarities. We're supposed to look for reasons to dislike others, rather than reasons to like others. I thought we were to view people as individuals and leave the group classifications to the Marxists.

Why should we really care about when a person is born? What matters is the individual qualities of that person, not his birthday.

[steve86]

Not clear on what the charges are against me. What did I do wrong?

[Charles Henrickson]

My parent’s generation spent the wealth that was so painfully earned by their parents. Then, they created failed program after failed program, all paid for with trillions of borrowed dollars. And when the programs were clearly failures, and, in fact, made things worse, they plodded on.

That would describe the PRE-Boomers, and even the generation before them. The basics of Big Government, i.e., FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society, were NOT the product of Boomers (those born 1946-64).

[Charles Henrickson]

my generation (Gen X), would have to clean up the mess. . . .

The "Gen X-ers" and whatever the term is for those after them, i.e., those 45 and younger, tend to be MORE liberal on social issues than are Boomers. Take attitudes toward homosexuality and cohabitation, for example. Young adults now seem to be very liberal on those issues.

[kittymyrib]

The worst generation ever. They were too long on self esteem with that “Age of Aquarius” nonsense and far too short on common sense. Many of their children have had to be the adults in their families, so perhaps their is some hope for the future.