Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?
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I'd like to give this guy two words with one finger...
When I saw the headline, I thought more onanistic drivel from Richard Cohen.
Good-NESS! It's tripe like this that is what makes the X-ers hate the Boomers so much! This really shows them for the selfish, greedy group that they are. Holding up half the sky? This generation did more damage to society than the three or four generations before them, and if Gen X is having problems fixing some of their messes it's because we were raised by these idiots. I know that the writer doesn't speak for every Boomer, but this is the face that the world sees, and it's what the world will remember.
It's spelled "fluoride." Not only does the Sydney Morning Herald have writers who can't write, they can't spell either. No proofreaders/editors either, apparently.
Fixed it for her.
Qwinn
B.S. How about the flappers in the 1920s. How about all the people then who defied prohibition to get a drink.
And that bit about individuals with a right to be listened to? Does the phrase, "Founding fathers" ring a bell. Well, the author is Australian, so maybe not.
But of all the laughable bits, is the suggestion that Boomers invented tantric sex. Honey, tantric sex was invented by Buddhists in India, no later than the 16th century.
Of course the Boomers seem to think they invented Sex...
"Imagine if we had not rebelled. Elvis would have been sent back to his mum to have his mouth washed out. He would still be singing gospel in some clapboard church in Memphis, telling his grandkids how a rush of blood to his head a long time ago made him do some foolish things with his hips."
Maybe Elvis would be alive enjoying his family, instead he died, overdosed siting on a toilet. Thanks.
Maybe instead of all the Rebelling, your generation should have gone to work and help build our future. Now your kind will just bankrupt the county.
Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?
They can kiss my Xer butt. We've now gotta fix all the crap that they screwed up.
Boomers game us free love, abortion and high divorce rates. Thanks for all you've done.
Gee thanks. By the way you boomers also gave me Jane Fonda and Bill Clinton (and forgettable John Fruitcake Kerry). So please take half of my salary and go to Vegas, Miami or where ever with it. I've already been bent over by you guys, I'm now used to it. When my generation cleans up your messes (if it is possible) you all will have been worm food. /rant off
On the other hand I do thank all of the Boomers who served our country, (Both as soldiers and civilians), and ended communism, I thank you for my freedom, and my ability to rant in the world's only superpower.
Cheers,
CSG
Jan; dues to society is a socialism, communism tentent of behavior..
A free person owes NO dues to society.. only a slave of socialism which is Slavery by Government needs to consider any DUES ro society.. Jan you must be for democracy which is itself MOB RULE.. and pre-cursor to socialism.. Democracy CAUSES socialism.. A free REPUBLIC based on law with a constitution is NOT a democracy, although democratic.. The difference between the words democratic and "A democracy" are strange to the inherent ignorance of people in a democracy..
Look them up Jan.. democratic means one thing "A DEMOCRACY" means entirly another thing.. "A" Democracy is a form of government and IS NO republic which is inherently democratic.. in its essence.. A democracy is the WORSE form of government ever invented thats why the United States is specifically NOT A DEMOCRACY... and thank GOD and our founders for that..
Boomers didn't bring us the Kalashnikov. That was brought to us by the WWII generation.
The 'All About Me Generation' speaks!
Loved the angry replies from all the clueless dolts who just didn't get it.
Maybe if the Boomer generation hadn't condemned 40 million Gen X and Gen Y to death before they were even born, I might have more sympathy and a greater willingness to support them in their old age. As it is, the burden falls on it and it's largely their fault.
Fortunately for Gen X, the Baby Boomers are also the one's pushing for Euthanaisa, Dutch style and maybe they won't be a burden for as long as people think.
That generation gave us:
1. Disrespect as a poor example of behavior.
2. AIDS.
3. Massive drug use.
4. Massive welfare.
5. Mini-Vans.
6. Ecoterrorism.
7. Spoiled brats.
8. Narcissism.
9. Mediocrity.
10. Destruction of higher education, once known as universities, now known as adult day care centers.
Dear Boomers,
What dues are those?
The one where you sat by while officials spent the SS funds which were collected, instead of saving them as any sane society would?
Maybe you paid your dues by standing idly by while radical leftists took over the courts and universities?
Or maybe the dues you Boomers paid were those which led to your apathy when any hints of religion and moral teaching were expunged from public life and education, and the churches were taken over by deviants hucksters, and power hungry social engineers?
Oh wait, maybe you mean it was the due you paid by sending school buses to ship me, my brothers, sisters, and cousins from our poor neighborhood to another, so we could be alternately abused, mocked and ignored by enlightened progressive San Francisco teachers because of the color of our skin?
No, no, it must be the huge mountain of socialist entitlements you've set up, to be paid for by others, so that you don't have to pay for them yourselves or be bothered serve the less fortunate with your own time. That's it, right?
Or maybe the real due you paid was to just ignore that all of the above what happening, without any concern for the future you left to your children.
Yes, thanks so much.