Posted on 09/08/2004 10:30:29 PM PDT by kattracks
"...Many of the children are grown up now, their lives irrevocably scarred by their parents' selfish decisions..."
Once again unintended consequences.
The Sexual Revolution was supposed to 'liberate' women, but instead, single women are expected to move in without being married, because marriage was deemed to be an institution designed to oppress women.
Utopians hoped to transform society in its image, arrogantly asserting that the Laws of Nature can be skirted in favor of a man-made ideal.
So women are expected provide sexual services -- thus risking disease and pregnancy -- without any commensurate obligation from the men. Dr. Laura calls this 'auditioning' for marriage in a man's bed.
How liberating.
I agree, the so called "greatest generation" fought in WWII and were the managers of the Vietnam War. When they got their health care nailed down, they retired to their Leisuretowns and Sun Cities, leaving the culture in the hands of their children.
Wow what a wonderful and insightful story of your life! Like I haven't heard it all before a million times, do you think I (or anyone) cares to hear another lame story 'bout the 60's?
Today, I am married and run two successful corporations. I am and have been a conservative since I voted against peanuts for brains Jimmy Carter in 1976. I have paid more in taxes and Social Security than you will probably pay in your lifetime.
Vintage arrogant baby boomer BS, how do you know what I've paid or will pay? Perhaps I've owned a business or two myself...and had to make matching payments for all my employees...eh...:) You just don't know do you, but in your all too typical baby boomer bravado you make stupid ignorant assumptions, making my point that yours is truly a generation of swine.
As it looks now, I'm not gonna need the pittance that is coming from Social Security but, what I do with it is none of you f**king business!
Vintage ignorant baby boomer BS, I have to pay your gd bills.
I suggest you go out and get a job and stop your pathetic whining.
Trust me I'm not interested in your suggestions, I've been listening to them for all too long. It would be nice if baby boomers would humble themselves for just a minute or too to listen to suggestion or too for a change. Here's one for you: shut-up, the rest of the country does not want to hear your generations 'suggestions' anymore.
Most of the " Hippies " I know from the 60's are respected and reputable people who contribute daily to the betterment of their communities.
Ok fine. But the general overall effect of your generation to this country has been negative, very negative. In any case, it's not up to your generation to judge.
Agreed. here's why: the original poster said something like: " ...wonder how many generations it will take to clean up our generations mess.."
Well shouldn't they clean it up themselves!!?? At least try, jeez! Leaving it to the future generations is completely typical in its self-centeredness...and completely unacceptable. If that's what their attitude is going to be then they may face a destitute and bitter old-age.
They need to endeavor to rectify all the problems you listed that they are responsible for. The rest of the country needs to hold their feet to the fire! Make them truly responsible for once in their life.
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Torture! I hate 1960s music. It is so self-important and pretentious. Everytime I hear 1960s music, it conjures up horrifying images of aging hippies hanging out at Starbucks, sockless, in their stupid Birckenstocks, as they fiddle with their Mac laptops and sip their $4 cafe lattes.
Whenever I hear Procol Harem's "Whiter Shade Of Pale," I think of that unctious movie "The Big Chill" where all these aging baby boomers trade stale quips and get each other pregnant. I hate that song. I also hate the Rolling Stones of the 1960s. The Rolling Stones of the 1970s were much better. Led Zeppelin was a 1970s band too. If Led Zeppelin were around in the 1960s, they'd probably have some horrible "Sgt Pepper" knockoff that would have Hindenburged their careers right then and there.
Whenever I hear Mungo Jerry's idiotic "In The Summertime" song, I think of Ben and Jerry's ice cream and then I want to throw up.
1960s music was terrible. The much maligned 1970s had far better music. I even like hearing pop songs of the 1970s more than what passed for 1960s pop (think 1910 Fruitgum Company).
No, See Rush
"College freshmen who call themselves liberals outnumbered conservatives by about three to one in 1971;
Compared to today
"now the figures are roughly even. 'Young voters are also more supportive of President Bush than the public at large,'.
I fault the greatest generation with ceding the entire 60's to their children.
Agreed, If they would have only cut off the checks after high school
Today's Civil War STARTED in the sixties, there are red and blue states today and there were red and blue 'boomers' then!
Finally, my side of the generation is being heard - via the Swift Boat veterans and via the internet - including FR.
I also know that clogged arteries are part of the cycle, as we remember, we suffer the pangs of all the time passed; tough nuts!
Don't include me with Bill Clinton or John Kerry.
I belonged to the half that didn't get headlines and didn't get the bennies; the half that got to this point silently and in time to educate callow youth in what really took place.
Fair enough.
I belonged to the half that didn't get headlines and didn't get the bennies;
Your 'half' may have to again bear the majority of the burden of your generation.
the half that got to this point silently and in time to educate callow youth in what really took place.
Ok, but I must say that I get a little nervous when baby boomers tell me they're trying to educate me. No offense but I'll educate myself thank you!
The babyboomers include those born between the years 1945 to 1965. Many of us were to young to have gone to Viet Nam or participated in the protests and other 60's events. For me it's as though it's an entirely different generation from my own and we had little in common.
To the 60s left that will NEVER grow up : God is tired of you, and so am I.
I have been trying to temper my scorn for the 60s for the radical Left that took over like a virus, remembering that amongst that generation were very brave people who fought in Vietnam and came back to be spit upon by their peers. But you see in my mind, when those soldiers came back they were no longer 60s CHILDREN, they were MEN, and deserved respect. So the distinction was such that to pour derision upon the 60s is NOT to include the men of Vietnam. In my particular view, it is to stand up for them and return the scorn upon the Leftist Hippies who were so horrible to the vets and did such harm to the rest of us. This is how it works out in my mind.
But then, there is George W Bush who has been tempered himself and proves that not all Boomers are the filth-encrusted maggot-infested dope-smoking FM types that still go around trolling for attention and adulation.
As a Generation Reaganite though, I do get sick of some Boomers complaining that we don't appreciate them and don't follow in their footsteps. We've watched, we've paid attention, and we teach our own children what we've observed.
That kind of retort is something I would love to fling in the faces of Bill and Hildebeast Clinton. It won't make a dent in their fossilized skins, and it won't change them, but it will be a warning to them that they have bid too much on their own sense of invulnerability.
Die, hippie scum.
The problem was he was jogging from one McDonalds to the other.
Sorry, but I don't know. The only person I know of the institutionalized the "Reagan Revolution" was the former President Reagan.
As surely as I sit here none of the Presidents since then has.
Speak for yourself. Not everyone was a social dropout. "The 60s" were some of the best formative years of my life including a 15 month tour in Viet Nam.
Your complaints about how much you've paid ring hollow to boomer conservatives, who've not only funded the boom of the welfare state, but have spent the past 30 or 40 years having leftist pop culture shoved down out throats - by the GG, fellow boomers, and Xers - with very little ability to respond.
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