Virtue and vice are properties of individuals, not of groups of people according to birth date. The concept of group guilt was one practiced by the early Bolsheviks with their emphasis on proletarian birth. The mindset rightfully belongs to Bolsheviks, not conservatives.
and which generation worked and gave the greatest generation their golden yrs?
Most of the baby boom post WWII generation are hard working, entrepreneurial, patriotic and family oriented. We are the generation that was betrayed by the leftists and the political class. The people responsible for the financial meltdown are the politicians, the MSM and the arrogant government bureaucrats who are destroying the greatest economy in the history of the world.
A sniveling liberal attempt to force all people born during this time into the same cheap mold. Not all baby boomers are sniveling, lazy liberals.
Pointing a finger at an entire generation and shouting “Guilty” is similar in tactics used by the communists when they blamed the kulaks for the problems in 1917 Russia. Baby boomers didn’t achieve group voting power until 1980, and they voted overwhelmingly for Reagan.
These two so-called filmakers need to go back to the cutting room and snip this propaganda to pieces.
Oh, please! Don’t paint my whole Baby Boomer generation with a broad brush! That would be like racism! Waaaaaaaaaa! The author is biased and is stereotyping us! Waaaaaaaaaa!
The author’s right. And where there’s much pride, dishonesty and mouthiness, there is weakness. May the young folks now get as tough as nails and get back to the better ways of our ancestors.
And just who is trying to save this nation from wholesale destruction? The Xers?
This “baby boomer” owes no money, has a credit card but keeps it paid off monthly and does not borrow money. There is no mortgage on the home I own.
Haven’t seen this documentary, but it is very common for the Boomer generation to be blamed for many changes that were actually brought about by the Greatest Generation and the Tweener, Korean era generation. Boomers were not in positions to change much of anything, or enact a single law in Congress or state legislature, or Boards of Education until around the mid-1980s.
A boomerbashing thread. I always love these. People can blame a whole age group for all the world’s ills. Maybe we ought to blame the boomer’s parents?
There was something else going on which started in the FDR years. Socialism and New liberalism emerged. There were good thing introduced in my time like the beginning of the end of racial discrimination. There were also damaging things like over indulgence and a sense of entitlement.
You can make a pretty fair case that Barry 0 is not a baby boomer either.
Folks, saying this gives people an excuse for delaying action, that the problems are 10, 20 or more years away. People, it ain't gonna take that long. We're facing these problems right now. Also, if the debt can't be paid back, it won't be paid back. Not gonna happen.
We have Obama's Deficit Commission being set up to recommend a VAT tax. Right now, the tax and spending burdens are such that we have 10-20% unemployment, depending how you want to define it. Increasing costs by the Federal Government on economic activity will just cause this unemployement rate to increase. Will States and Cities remain solvent on this basis?
The fit can hit the shan this year or next year. It ain't gonna take that long.
Pfft. Every fellow Boomer I know is monetarily contributing to this country and has been for decades. When younger they may have smoked pot a few times, but that’s as far as it went. They wised up in a hurry when reality hit.
It’s natural for one generation to fault the previous. I would love to be around to hear what disasters Gen 0 will be blamed for causing, though.
Left winged members of the baby BOOM generation primary accomplishments are:
1) Destruction of US education
2) A sexual revolution that devastated the family structure
3) An Over glorified concert in Woodstock that was rescued by the NY Nat’l Guard
4) A Ramped up drug culture
5) A Vietnam anti-war crowd with the blood of thousands of Vietnamese allies on their anti-war hands.
6) Jimmy Carter and Bill Ayers
7) Crappy bands in the 80’s—who do you think produced that garbage
8) The take over of the Democrat party between 1968-1972 and morphing it into the Marxist party of today.
9) The take over of news organizations and moving them full left of center.
10) The nurturing and development of Barrack Obama
I have the utmost respect for the Conservative members of the baby boom generation who had to endure the living hell of co-existing with these insane fellow boomers.
I was not alone! All of my close friends and a significant %age of peers were Conservatives. Sadly, many were just clueless. The problems were the few damned socialist teachers in social studies, history and civics who were college grads of the late '30s Communist era in universities.
Bottom line..... Anyone who blames the 'boomers' for everything has their head up their butt. I can also tell you that there were a goodly number of the "greatest generation" who were quite anxious to eventually get their full S.S. benefits when due and were utterly clueless about the Ponzi aspect so long as they collected fully. Most of them were clueless Democrats who thought FDR was a demi-god. I got into many heated discussions with them about that robber baron idol of theirs, FDR. Please remember that we 'boomers' couldn't vote until we were 21.
Nam Vet