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While I will acknowledge that there are many fine and up standing baby boomers, I am sorry overall as a generation the baby boomers are simply the worst that ever walked the United States and to put it bluntly the world will just be a better place once you are all gone from power.

And don't just blame a few liberal elitist boomers, It wasn't just liberal elitist boomers who had all those abortions, all those divorces, grabbed all those guns, Passed all those health/safety initiatives, Put their careers over their children and latch keyed them and ruined education. With a little exception it was the whole bunch of you.

But, while we made mistakes, we also pushed the envelope with successes in science, exploration, the environment, education, engineering, health, etc., etc

No you didn't, Like everything else the baby boomers have corrupted science for their own purposes. Instead of in the past where they came up with antibiotics and cures for things like Polio today we get useless junk like Global warming, How food from McDonalds is addicting, How smokers are more likely to allow their children to stand up in shopping carts, etc, etc. Not a day goes by that we aren't bombarded with more of these silly studies on how something innocent will harm/kill you and/or make you do bad things. In the past scientist worked on things for the future betterment of mankind, Today Baby Boomer scientist work on things for the future betterment of lawsuits and more regulations. If you baby boomers spent just 1/10 the resources you spent on your junk science on something meaningful we would probably already have a cure for cancer and cold fusion and much more by now.

As for the environment, Don't make me laugh. Baby Boomers are only for saving the Environment when it hurt a corporation or America. Which is why there hasn't been a new nuclear power plant build in the past 25 years and why there is all this protest against GMOs. As for those gadgets, Well it might have been the baby boomers, But not the ones in America but the ones in Japan and Korea(if they have such a designation) that came up with them. When's the last time a TV has been made in the USA.

The internet, Well sorry that's ours. Computers and the internet have existed since the 60's but it wasn't until the new entrapanuer ial spirt of the Gen-Xers got a hold of them that they became what they are today. And it is this way by bringing computers and the internet into mainstream that Gen-X has already surpassed the Boomers (who have overall been a net drain on the country) in making positive contributions to United States and the world.

"The internet, Well sorry that's ours. Computers and the internet have existed since the 60's but it wasn't until the new entrepreneurial spirt of the Gen-Xers got a hold of them that they became what they are today."

Oh, PLEASE!!! Give me a break. First of all, computers have existed since the late 40s. But, if you really trace the computer back through history, crude computers have existed since about the 12th or 13th century. Secondly, Americans have exhibited entrepreneurialism since the long before the Revolutionary War. Are you going to take credit for everything that has been done since then? You are starting to sound like Al Gore. Finally, I worked in the industry that made the Internet happen. We developed the technology and the hardware that made it what it is. The Internet has been around since the 70s, it was just called the Darpanet, then. However, if you want to take the credit for it, thanks for the dot-com bust that put so many people out of work and caused the collapse of so many businesses. Good work!! Is THIS the legacy that you Gen X-ers want to have? You're not off to a very good start.

Tell ya what. Print out a copy of the post I am replying to and put it in a safe place. A VERY safe place. 30 years from now, when the next generation is blaming you for everything that is wrong with the America that THEY inherited from YOU, re-read what you wrote. If you have an ounce of honor in you, you will feel very embarrassed. But, I doubt it. Your post reflects a lot of anger; much like Howard Dean.