So I wasn’t far off.
Look I know life sucked for the Boomers. You guys had the longest boom and you still have the nerve to whine about us.
Look, Obama’s one of you guys. So was Bush, so was Clinton.
How about you quite riding us, and take a look in the mirror?
You are quite wrong when you say Obama like the rest of us. We are trying to articulate the differences in upbringing to you. Obama himself was an overly indulged academic. He has never had a “real” job. He has never had to struggle with a few jobs to make ends meet. WISDOM comes from overcoming obstacles and hard times. This is why Obama is such a dreadful example of the times we have before us. He has never had to experience what most of us have. I feel most fortunate to have had my life experiences because I know I can support myself in the toughest of times. I wouldn’t have had it any other way.
(Thanks, Mom! for not allowing any excuses and making me self-sufficient.)
How about you kiss my ass and get a real job, like the military or the oil/gas patch. I worked 99 hours last week on the deck of a swabbing rig, sun-up to sun-down....I'll be 50 this year. Your incessant boo-hooing is getting very old....
You better read it again...I'm the boomer and my step-dad made the $3600...minimum wage in 1960 was $1 and there weren't too many kids making more than the minimum in HS.
I worked in the fields in the summers and made more than minimum...'course, the harder you worked the more you made....funny how that worked.
Look I know life sucked for the Boomers. You guys had the longest boom and you still have the nerve to whine about us.
Life didn't suck; circumstances might have been a little sucky, times but it was a pretty good time.
Look, Obama’s one of you guys. So was Bush, so was Clinton.
Lessee, Obamarama was born in 1960, so he couldn't be one of us guys, except in the broadest sense of "boomer" and there is a world of difference between someone born in the 60's and someone born in the 40's and I doubt even he made 5K in 1960, despite his press.
The other two guys, yep...one flew twitchy a$$ jets in the Air Guard subject to deployment and the other one went to Qxford...me, I went to Viet Nam, Infantry and got the scars to prove it.
So, is there a point somewhere in there?
How about you quite riding us, and take a look in the mirror?
I just checked the mirror...I see a guy who worked in the fields beginning at age 12, and when I was older worked baling hay at a penny a bale...on a good day I could make 10 or 12 dollars.
My kids worked in the fields too for two reasons, one to give them incentive to study harder to overcome that life and to give them an appreciation for the value of honest labor and that no honest labor is demeaning.
I like what I see.
Do you like what you see in yours?
I'm not riding you; I don't even know you.
However, what job/work are you willing to do to feed, clothe and house yourself...no need to answer, it's a rhetorical.