Posted on 09/14/2004 10:06:03 AM PDT by qam1
If you check the demographics you will find that most people who vote for Democrats tend to be very young. The older and wiser you get, the more conservative you are.
No the boomers were just coming of age. Its the politicians who were in power at the time that made abortion legal. Boomers did take advantage of it and use it for birth control and that is truly a horrendous mistake. But America and its morals have been going downhill for some time. Like I said blame FDR and LBJ and the people who put them in power for most of the socialist crap.
Boomers did luck out in that they came in at the right time of history. People in america who came of age from the late 40's to the 90's lucked out in that America won WWII and was the only nation that did not have to be rebuilt.
Easy sex, I expect.
Check your history, bubba. Roe v. Wade was decided in 1969, IIRC. The oldest 'boomer' would have been about 23.
It's really easy to beat up on the boomers, but I take a little umbrage over it. I served in the Army for 8 years, of which 4 was during the Carter Administration.
Me, and millions of other boomers, have busted our tails to raise our families correctly. Is that not part of the reason youngsters are growing up more conservatively today?
I'd like to go further, but my lunch hour is winding down. Suffice it to say that generational conflict will never end.
Put a raw steak in the neighbors mailbox with a blood drip leading from yours, during the commotion get your check! :-)
Tried that once, d'mnd near broke my neck tripping over my oxygen cord in the excitement :O(
Forty million of my aborted brothers and sisters (i was born in 1973), doctors, lawyers, scientists, beg to disagree.
So what? Feel free to add that to the list of programs to cancel, but that falls WAY below the noise floor compared to retirement and healthcare in terms of the damage being caused to the country.
Nobody owes anyone a retirement or healthcare. People who haven't provided for themselves deserve what they get. And in 95% of the cases, people are responsible for where they end up. Prudent and judicious management of finances can allow just about everyone to have a reasonable retirement if they so choose, no matter what they did for a living.
I don't mind helping people who have suffered misfortune, and give to charities liberally. But I sure as hell feel no obligation to spend money to give people the lifestyle they think they deserve after a lifetime of foolishness, bad choices, and outright stupidity. There is no excuse for people like my parents saving little or no money. I had managed to save more money by my mid-20s, when I was still in pretty poor shape income-wise, than my parents had over their entire lives, counting on Social Security and me (mind you, they did close to the bare legal minimum required by parents when it came to raising us, and sometimes probably not that) to carry their water. And the thing is, I know a lot of people like my parents, thinking that the pittance they put into Social Security (and then spent on handouts) justifies sucking the economic life out of younger generations completely out of proportion to the money they put in.
I can empathize with people who want back what they put in, but that isn't what is happening. Instead we have people who want to squeeze an order of magnitude more out of the system than they ever put in. That's thievery on an epic scale any way you slice it, and profoundly immoral. That's all it really is to me, a purely moral issue. I neither expect to see any benefit regardless, and I have little financial exposure from this stupidity.
Man, if attitude like that is exemplary I don't think your generation is any better.
If you have any kind of useful degree, you can make a whole lot more than 60K a year right out of college or graduate school (especially grad school). Unless you have nothing more than a high school degree, you have to be a real screw-up to spend 20 years making it to 60K.
Ouch. Touche...
True though.
BTW, the other half of the Boomers are some of America's greatest.
Don't you get it? It WON'T go two ways for us. There will be nothing left for us. Our ability to save for our own retirement will be hampered by the Big Boomer Suck that will happening just when we most need to be putting aside for our futures. I have YET to hear from ANY Boomer that they're concerned about the future of their offspring.
So what are you going to do Boomers? Say, "Too bad. That's the way it is. I'm gettin' MINE, kid. Any fall-out will happen after I'm dead so it's really *your* problem, isn't it? Suck it up and quit whining" or "This is a horrible situation. If we don't make some sacrifices now, our children and grandchildren will suffer terribly."
Yeah, I thought so.
So you'll reap your revenge on your parents on their behalf?
Seems to me Xers have a problem acquiring the appropriate target. Why not start your generational war over at DU?
That's what we made Gen Xers for! They'll do anything for a buck. And they don't know about the vaudvillian routine of tapping a string to the bill and pulling it back!
:-)
I know they did. But where were the boomber men was this was going on?
Running and hiding when they got their girlfriends pregnant. They could have offered the alternative, but I guess it didn't feel good to the "if it feels good, do it" generation.
Not that it changes your point, but I think that Roe v Wade was decided in 1973, when I was 19.
Try sharing your superior "logic" with the 3 million souls a year whose parents DIDN'T "value life">
I watched the entire broadcast on C-span and I have to say you guys were fantastic.
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