[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.

[Wanderer659]

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.

[tanknetter]

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

You actually illustrate, quite well, the crux of the issue here. The veterans, and particularly the combat veterans, of the "Boomer" generation (with exceptions, John Kerry, for instance) are NOT the ones that are driving the bus.

Instead we have those who's memories of the 60s and 70s (where they survive) are of the counterculture and free-love, not rice paddies and firebases. THOSE are the ones who turned into Yuppies of the 1980s and are the ones now helping to push the US over the cliff.

No generation is an absolute. You have to look at the preponderance and understand that there will be wide swaths of execeptions. There's no fault in pointing out the overall destructiveness of the Boomers so long as one understands the sacrifice of the Vietnam Veterans and the significant numbers of Boomers who are common sense and Conservative (like Freepers).

[gogogodzilla]

I think the first Gulf war, 9/11, the war on Terror, Afghanistan, and Iraq have *MORE* than met your call.

[chaka123]

Huh. I get it “wet behind the ears.” Us youngsters can’t help but note the irony (because irony is our weapon of choice),that it was the boomers that sent their kids to war. Yes, the same boomers who protested the Vietnam War. Yep you got it, have sent their sons and daughters to participate in an unsanctioned war in Iraq, and a quagmire in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the economy is collapsing, the housing market has burst, Social Security will be expended by 2038, if not sooner, and the jobless rate continues to plummet. Yep. You boomers really did change the world! Lets’s celebrate with drugs and some “indiscriminate fucking.”