Posted on 09/14/2004 10:06:03 AM PDT by qam1
Whoa! What's happening?
Why are people turning on us?
We're the Baby Boomers, you know.
The Mighty Boomers.
We invented everything from money to music to sex, did we not? Nothing good ever happened until we came along.
Now people are turning on us.
We Baby Boomers are being made to feel . . . guilty.
Ridiculous, isn't it?
People have tried to make us feel guilty before. They said we consumed too much. Or we were too shallow. Or we only thought about ourselves.
Excuuuuse me.
Who should we think about? Somebody else?
All that was just jealousy. Even Tom Brokaw came along and said the World War II generation was "the greatest." Jealousy. Pure jealousy.
Sure, they saved the world.
Did they ever throw a party like Woodstock?
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lol Hey, I never said the Xs and Ys were perfect. We've got plenty of our own problems that we need to clean up in our own time. I'm just sick of Boomers as a whole whining about the lack of respect they get shown. If the Boomers took a good, objective look at everything they've "accomplished" and the impact they've had on my generation as a whole, they wouldn't be so mystified--and maybe, just maybe they'd put some effort into cleaning up that mess and earn some of our collective respect back.
I'd settle for pulling down that damned Temple of the Deified Lyndon on the University of Texas campus. The LBJ Liberry ought to be located in an East Texas sump anyway. Sump politics was what he did, and a hog-wallow ought to be his monument.
I remember Landslide Lint'n's last day in office. I was a studious young geology student beavering away at a subsurface mapping project, for which purpose I'd been lent out to the Sun Oil Company's office in Lafayette, who kindly let me use their base maps and log files. While I was in a borrowed office, working away, people were gathering around the corner in a common area to watch a big console TV that was carrying Richard Nixon's inaugural ceremonies. Nixon and Johnson were riding up Pennsylvania Avenue together to the Capitol in the presidential limousine. Suddenly a deep Texas voice rang out from among the people watching the TV, in a Jim Davis drawl, resonant and manly, "Adios, m***********! You've done all the damage you're gonna do!!" Talk about a vignette!
And that's what Texans thought about him!
Along the same lines, don't dump on someone you don't know blaming them for all the ills of the world. I've never slaughtered an innocent, nor have I endorsed the slaughter. I've voted Republican my entire life, never ever used any sort of public assistance, and will not be held responsible for the national debt. Should I be able to retire? Sure. Should I expect YOUR GENERATION to pay for it? Sure. I paid for my parents.....
It is the responsibility of the CHILD to respect the PARENT (if nothing else, look up Exodus) AND their ELDERS. That's just basic good manners.
I swore I wouldn't get dragged into this massacre, this abomination of a subject, and here I am. I'm disgusted with myself. I going to go do something productive.
Dont worry Brads Gramma Ill give you a pass.
I can't help the sweeping generalizations others make, but I can resist thinking of myself as belonging to a particular group identified simply by my date of birth. Thats what I intend to do.
Slap me if you ever see me post to this subject again.
"I built a career, bought a house, all ready to go......and only gold-diggers showed up. Well. What's a boy to think?
I think I'll be comfortably retired, sitting on my porch 15 years from now, watching those former "Sisterhood is powerful" feminists who were too good for guys, pushing their grocery carts down the street."
All you have to do is look at the illegal invasion from mexico. I think it is hurting all generations but it is really hitting X,Y, and Z.
Where is the outcry? These people are about to get SS which XYZ will pay for but noone from ZYX is out on the streets marching and screaming bloody murder. They are just bitching about how the boomers are greedy and raped them.
Well, get up, get out and start fighting back. I bet 40%+ of the boomers will join you because we are not all only worried about ourselves. Most of us care about our children and their children.
The politicians are screwing everyone, just like they screwed the boomers and they screwed the gens before that.
Go to Cal and look at the props that the people voted on and then judicial activists overturned. Their was a recent one on involving illegals. I forget the details. Look at gay marriage which America is against but judicial activist are making it legal anyway.
Many boomers voted against things that they knew would hurt their country and their children but it did not do any good.
The politicians are your real enemy. They sell the future down the river for the short term to keep their greedy asses in power. All fed, state, county employees have a different retirement plan then SS. They protect themselves and liberals are mostly in power in gov. because of AA and the fact that many people go into gov.org because they get a cushy job in which they dont have to worry about competition. They dont work hard to climb up the ladder.
Hold on a minute! This isn't about choice. This is about what the government is going to take from my family (and your children's families). Gen Xers are mad because the government is going to burden us (with no benefit, I might add) and handicap our ability to care for our own families. Believe it or not, this is the same argument made time and time again on FreeRepublic. Let the people keep their money and decide what to do with it.
It astounds me that FReeper Boomers, as a group, are fiscal conservatives until the conversation turns to "their" social security. Then they're right there with the DUers with their hands out. This is an argument against redistribution of wealth, not young vs old.
Hubby and I will take care of our parents and our own retirement. Why should we be expected to foot the bill for anyone else?
Spooky.
When I read Death of the West a couple of years ago I was disturbed. Your post in light of that makes sense to me and that is frightening.
I certainly hope that America does not follow the path that the Europeans seem to be on and unable to get off. We need to remove the elected (professional carrer) politicians who prove that they are without real vision and good conscience.
Bing-go.
"I'm just sick of Boomers as a whole whining about the lack of respect they get shown."
EVERYONE should be treated with respect. It's called "manners".
Ditto.
Where is the outcry? These people are about to get SS which XYZ will pay for but noone from ZYX is out on the streets marching and screaming bloody murder. They are just bitching about how the boomers are greedy and raped them.
Well, get up, get out and start fighting back. I bet 40%+ of the boomers will join you because we are not all only worried about ourselves. Most of us care about our children and their children.
The politicians are screwing everyone, just like they screwed the boomers and they screwed the gens before that.
You are right. I think that most Gen Xers are just flabbergasted that so many Boomers have absolutely problem jumping into the Ponzi Pond even when they KNOW that it will do nothing good for their kids. Gen X has one HELL of a mess to clean up and EVERYBODY is going to feel the pinch.
(((:::CRISP SALUTE:::))) to those who gave all.
I honor my mother and father, as I've said before. But you can't tell a generation that has seen yours remove the Ten Commandments and prayer from every public institution that they should follow the Fifth.
Furthermore, you ignore the fact that parents are commanded to love their children, not to exploit them. There's a two-way street here.
So let me repeat (since you seem not to be hearing me): I will support MY parents. But under what perverse morality should I be indentured into supporing people who either aborted their own children or who abused them, whether physically, emotionally, or relationally?
I have never earned more than 60K in a year. I have however spent a good portion of the last 20 years raising 2 children as a single parent. Both of them will make a lot more than I ever have.
Some things are simply more important than money. Incidentally, I do not have a Masters Degree, but I do have what is likely more college credits than the average Bachelors degree holder.
You keep talking about student loans on equal footing of SS and government health care. How is paying back the full amount borrowed, plus interest the same as getting more than paid in?
We also gave you the Internet and the AFL NFL merger.
Your post was wonderfully passionate!
Bless you, Howlin. My mother is infirm and I am not close enough to care for her. She does, however, have a large network of my cousins and her brother and sister nearby.
When I was a child, my grandmother lived with us. My mother and her siblings at one time lived with their grandmother. It's a pity that more people either do not or cannot help care for their extended family.
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