You’re Messing With the Wrong Generation (Quintuple Barf Alert!)

Op Ed News ^ | 3/11/04 | Becky Burgwin

[GrandMoM]

....???????BUMP

[Amelia]

Stop complaining, and suck it up and help pay for the huge increases in social spending the over-50 set are voting in for themselves.

You'll notice that most of these benefits were voted in by "The Greatest Generation" for "The Greatest Generation"...that is, WWII vets.

Personally I'm on the younger end of the "Baby Boomer" generation, and I expect Social Security will be bankrupt before I get back much of what I've paid in. I'd much rather be able to invest that money in a 401K or similar plan.

Yes, it is a government-sponsored Ponzi plan. Of course, I don't think the people who invented it ever foresaw declining birth rates....

[Glenn]

who's going to be crushed under the burdens of a metastasizing government and a Ponzi scheme named Social Security? People who are entering the workforce now.

You are blaming the wrong people for your therapy-worthy angst over your tax status.

[Amelia]

Her self-righteousness pushed a few buttons. :)

She's definitely missing a few screws.

[dave k]

Should I feel bad? My purpose in life is not to validate another generation's misguided ideology.

[Glenn]

proceeded

preceded.

Reply in anger. Repair in retrospect.

[Glenn]

Should I feel bad? My purpose in life is not to validate another generation's misguided ideology.

This may come as a total shock to you, but YOUR generation gave us 8 freaking years of William J. Clinton.

Yes! You should feel bad for being the "MTV" generation of enabling.

[John W]

John Kerry Birthdate: 12/11/43

Technically,is he a boomer?

[Rutabega]

I'll tell you maybe what the idea behind being annoyed with boomers is (and it is, I am certain, a small, vocal minority of boomers). . .

The boomers (again, please see I am not discussing the majority, just the loud, obnoxious ones) handed feminism to us on a plate, and let me tell you, it's rotten. As a female Xer, our husbands were brought up to expect us to work away from home to provide, as well as do everything (or most of it) around the house (sort of stuck between generations). Most of us, once we hit thirty or have small kids, really want to stay at home, but we've been told that it's not really an option. I fault this directly to my mom's generation of women.

Also, protester Boomers have glorified their hippy days to such an extreme that they have made it seem like in order to be a feeling human being, you must protest wars. Yes, I know that buying into this is ignorant on the part of the younger generations, but it is something that no other generation had to experience, and it is hard for a youth to stand strong in the face of jeers and taunting from the rest of the pack (this gets much easier past twenty-one by the way!)

How about the advent of the fault divorce which left a lot of us X-er's in split up homes, as well as latch key kids?

Granted, a lot of good things came about because of the Boomers (let's look at lots of technology, Civil Rights, advances in medicine, and much more, I am sure!) and then let's look at the spread of liberalism, anything-goes atmosphere, and the over-emotioanlism of 'if it makes you feel good, do it!' that has permeated our society. From what I have read, my generation (referred to as whiners, slackers, etc, quite often from the Boomer side) is much more conservative than yours. Could it be that we were the victims of your generations social experiments, and we have learned a little more from it?

Like I have said, I certainly do NOT mean the entire Boomer generation, or even specifically my folks (who are still married, conservative, and generally awesome people). My husband is being re-programmed to understand that staying at home with small kids is a good thing for the family unit as a whole. Slowly, I hope we can get some of the stain of liberalism washed back out of the fabric of our society, and Boomers on Free Republic really are sort of exempt from this sort of rant.

Wow, I've never done this before! I hope that I haven't stepped on too many toes (I just spray painted a bike, so I guess I can claim paint fume for foggy my brain!)

[dave k]

Ah, yes...assigning blame, are we?

And, of course, your generation had absolutely NOTHING to do with getting Clinton elected, huh?

[pending]

"Perhaps your parents are also the hippie-type boomer?"

Those kids lived the effects of abandoning "traditional values".
Hopefully they wont repeat it. It looks like it could be trending that way.

I like the Xers, myself. I think there is great potential there, but lets face it, you got your share of Doh.

"generation X will be the greatest", repeats the worst aspect of the very unlikeable ego driven stereotypical "Me generation shallow hippie turned SUV lovin yuppie".

One difference is todays boomers who spent summers on acid dont have the tattoos and piercings to prove it.

You will be living those down to your kids... Ha ha.
Just teasing...

[Sloth]

Boomers suck.

[Glenn]

How about the advent of the fault divorce which left a lot of us X-er's in split up homes, as well as latch key kids?

Another "xvictim" heard from.

[socal_parrot]

Couple things,

I'm nowhere close to over 50 and....

My point was that his was the most whiny, wimpy, victicrat ping list explanation I've ever seen. You fit in just fine.

Blaming Boomers for all of the spending program increases when some members of the "y" generation have been voting since 1983 is a specious argument.

[normy]

My generation grew up on "kill a commie for mommie" and Red Dawn and the Miracle on Ice. We grew up on USA all the way and dominating the Olympics. We loved the A-Team and Rambo. We played with GI Joes and loved Back to the Future. We grew up in the eighties and it was like the fifties all over again. We love America and freedom with responsibility. We believe having at least one gun is the responsibility of every American as part of their cultural heritige. We like cowboys and soldiers and brave men. We think our Founding Fathers were men of integrity, not just rich,old white, slave owners who didn't want to pay taxes.

Our parents were not lazy suburban hippies, but worked hard and love their country as well. They went for Carter in the seventies and for Reagan in the eighties and never looked back. The hippies are yesterdays news, and even some old hippies know they were mistaken in the things they did and would advise their children to not behave the way they did. Only a tiny minority thinks what hippies did was cool or it matters now.

[nobody_knows]

"I am the generation that came after this twit. All my teachers were people like Becky Burgwin. I hate hippies."

Hey now....Not all us hippies are crack heads like Becky. Easy on the stereotype son.

[Howlin]

In 1994 made one of the biggest mistakes in my life. I worked for George Pataki for his campain against Mario Cuomo. While Pataki's first term was wonderful after that he turned out to be further to the left than Mario and has turned New York into a bigger socialist hell hole than Mario or even Hillary for that matter could ever dream of

From the "bio."

I think I am beginning to see the problem.......LOL.

[socal_parrot]

Oops...

Y=X


Darn

[Trampled by Lambs]

Speaking as a member of the last wave of boomers (born 1959), I have to confess, I used to think this way.


Then I grew up.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Burgwin is a lesbian. No more need be said.