Posted on 08/02/2021 8:23:37 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
After defeating the Axis nations, Brokaw’s “greatest generation” returned home and gave birth to one of the sorriest generations ever produced, the so-called baby boomers. I am a baby boomer, and I take no pleasure in admitting that we are one decadent, whining, and spoiled group of malcontents.
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The ones born in the 1910's and 1920's.
The generation that came next didn't swallow as much socialism :)
Oh. Gotcha.
“So why are baby boomers so full of ourselves?”
I think it’s an entitlement mentality. It afflicts a lot of children who were raised by hard working, successful parents. The children were spoiled. Sort of like Ronald Reagan’s wayward children, Patti Davis and Ronald Reagan Jr.
“So why are baby boomers so full of ourselves?”
T-E-L-E-V-I-S-I-O-N!
*I worked sixty years as did my father before I retired. KMA loser.*
*”I worked sixty years”* I don’t believe you.
I am one of those millennials and I strongly disagree. I’ve known a lot of very elderly people due to volunteering and having hobbies that skew old (classical music, opera, classic cinema, etc.). Far more of their generation have their heads on right than the millennial generation. Marxist millennials are the biggest problem this country faces.
I don’t see why that’s so unbelievable?. My grandfather started working when he was 12 or 13 and didn’t retire until his 70s. That’s 60+ years.
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*I don’t see why that’s so unbelievable?. My grandfather started working when he was 12 or 13 and didn’t retire until his 70s. That’s 60+ years.*
Grandfathers yes. Great Depression. Had to work to survive. A baby boomer working 60 years? One of us isn’t listening. Could be me I digress.
.....After defeating the Axis nations, Brokaw’s “greatest generation” returned home and gave birth to one of the sorriest generations ever produced, the so-called Baby Boomers.....
The Millennials and the generation after them out-decadent the Baby Boomers—every single time!!!!
While the George Washington was a great generation in giving us our independence from Britain, it was not until the WW2 generation that America truly became great. America made the difference in WW2, saving the world from Hitler and Mussolini’s form of socialism, and in the Pacific from Hirohito’s pagan totalitarian system.
As to the libertarians who say otherwise on this thread, as anti-war hippie draft dodgers its typical of them. How would you like to be in a fox hole in the Battle of the Bulge, or Iwo Jima with one of these libertarians?
I don't know. I feel the same way about us Get-Xers.
AMEN .... So many went into military at 17-18, spent 2-3 years. After getting out the anti-war commie lovers denied all but most menial jobs to vets. Yet, so many vets clawed their way out of the socialist hole that was dug for them and now morons like biden, pelosi are busy digging the hole again.
That's why the term 'fragging' was developed.
My parents’ and grandparents’ generations were both the greatest
I could not do what my grandparents did. They came all the way across the planet to a place they didn’t know, broke and unable to speak English. The worked like crazy people and with help from no one ... and they survived a depression at the same time.
My father and his brothers left school to work and help the family. When WWII arrived, they all stepped up and fought with absolutely no guarantee that they would come home.
I was all done with no whining, self pity and without childish demands for help from the government
They were better than me because they did what I couldn’t do.
Moms and dads came out of the war into the richest country ever. They wanted to give their kids everything they themselves never had. Toys. Clothes. Cars. College education.
Also, those moms and dads grew up on farms. They worked hard all their lives. Their kids grew up in something new: "subdivisions." Tract houses on 1/8 to 1/4 acre lots. The kids had no work to do except Junior cutting the grass once a week and little Susie helping mom with the dishes occasionally.
All the above combined to make those brats lazy, spoiled and pathologically self-centered.
Toss into the mix the growing convenience and decadence of Hollywood and the cultural revolution and we were destined to fall as a nation. I'm surprised our implosion didn't come much earlier.
at what point were boomers in charge?
I was 15 and LBJ was in charge... and medicare was signed.
Boomers went to Vietnam...who created that?
Bill Clinton was the first Boomer president...the foundation of where we are was already set before he got elected.
Blameless ? Heck no...contributary? absolutely. First Cause? nice try.
BTW..Brokow was the silent generation...(look up who they were and what they did)
Yes,I’m a Boomer and must admit that many,many of us...but certainly not *all*...turned out to be worthless punks.
As warriors and defenders of freedom, yes. As parents, not so much.
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