The following is aimed mainly at Democrat boomers:
How many times have we heard boomers saying they didn't want to have children? How many times have they told the children they had, "You'll never have to take care of me in your old age." How many times have we seen the boomers legislating their own safety nets? How many times have we seen the boomers mismanaging the economy "for someone else's children?" How many parents and grandparents of boomers have been abandoned while the boomers had "fun."
They asked for freedom from responsibility. I say "deal with the consequences."
As for the Greatest Generation? They deserve everything we can give them. And as for the boomer's children and their children? Let's do our best to restore the ideals of family intradependence and independence from social handouts from governments.
Socialism is about to end in America. Can the boomers deal with it? They've asked us to deal with so much for them -- just for them -- already...
How is socialism going to end when both parties keep pushing it?
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I wish but I think we are stuck with more and more "Feel Good" and "give me" baby boomer socialist programs from both parties until Gen-x and Y takes over power from them which I don't think will happen until 2016 or 2020.
As a member of the "greatest" I have to disagree. If you removed "boomers" and insert "greatest" in your list I think it applies even more.
Boomers didn't start the long walk to socialism and the nanny state, it has it's deepest roots in the 40s-60s and boomers weren't old enough to vote them. Social security to The Great Social were all greatest generation programs, boomers had nothing to do with them other than being raised by the greatest.
Every generation has it's own sack of rocks, boomers amoung them, but let's not muddy the waters of who started what, the rock got pushed down the hill a long time before boomers arrived, they just added a little mo to what their mommy and daddy started.
Post WW2 the Greatest Generation gave us Abortion, Viet Nam (and the ensuing systemic problems in the military), changed immigration laws (habla espanol?), The Great Society (welfare in case it needs translating) the dissolution of mores in entertainment (remember Norman Lear?), school busing and so much more.
The first national election that any boomer could vote in was 1968, and even then only boomers born in 1945-1947 were old enough. By 1972 only the first wave of those described as boomers could vote.