Posted on 11/10/2005 1:22:46 PM PST by qam1
You've got that right - Thanks for the laugh.
"Per capita, the hardest working generation in America's history, based on average hours worked."
Well, they better start looking for third jobs because some retirees have boat payments to make.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statitistics, just 17.0% of all workers aged 45 to 54 years belonged to a union in 2004. That was down from 17.6% in 2003.
I was forced to join a union once. The experience left a bad taste in my mouth, and I resolved never again to work for a company that has a strong union.
I would say it's the fault of those who were old enough to vote before Jan 22, 1973 (The date Rowe v. Wade was decided).
In your dreams only.
OOOOOOOOOkkkkkkk. Can you name some of them?
In 2008 we would be better off just skipping the whole baby boom generation and pick a Matt Blunt / Paul Ryan ticket.
Compare Matt Blunt's Record with any other Baby Boomer Republicans in power
ROTFLMAO! You actually made me bust out laughing. Do you really think I will get back what I pay in? OMG, too funny.
I'm in your generation and you are lying to yourself if you think that more than 25% of boomers have your or my work ethic.
Most of them are lazy liberals, RINO's or apolitical. Only the rich lib's among that type (inheritied daddy's money, most likely) will be close to self sufficient in retirement.
Those of us who earned our money and will be self sufficient are very far and few between.
I know that I will never see a company pension or social security. My whole retirement is based on three things:
My 401k
My house paid for
Personnel Investments
& I plan to retire in comfort.
I love my children and they love me. I do not expect them to support us, although I am sure they would help us if something terrible happened, just like my sisters and I did when my parents both became ill at the same time.
I think there is some Soros money being spread around to foment this type of dissension...so that euthanasia and other social "rememdies" can be promoted.
Spoken like a true socialist.
Whereas we miserable slobs can fix our own computers.
And program our own DVD players.
That's your response? Don't you remember the huge protest about her death? It was the young that seemed, to me, to be indifferent to her plight.
When someone on this board asks for a citation for an asserted fact, the expected response is a link to a study or some other verifiable source for the assertion.
See post 167. :-)
I think it already broke out on this thread. Watch out, your in no man's land getting shot by both sides!
By your statement alone someone who is in the know could assume that you really don't have a need to know, nor do you understand what its all about. But if you really want to know, I'll gladly divulge how I am putting my money where my mouth if you'd like to PM me.
Secondly, if you think Defense Contractors just are war profiteers you don't have a clue about what is really going on. I know plenty of DefCons who are out dodging lead mosquitoes in the WoT. Unfortunately, in the world we live in Contractors, and Civilians have to step in to keep the warfighter fighting, like no other time in history. A Vietnam Legacy that's come home to roost.
Cheers,
CSG
Sure, that's my response. I found that among the many I spoke to regarding that situation, baby boomers were uniformly either supportive of or indifferent to Michael Schiavo, and non-boomers were universally aghast (except for one hardcore communist).
Are you the only one who didn't understand that the whole Schiavo controversy was about boomers wanting the power of euthenasia over their own parents?
Yes, but many of them died in obscurity protecting your a$$.
"What is the source of this inter-generational warfare"
What is really confusing is folks like me that depending on whose definition you use, could be either an X-er, or a boomer.
I mean, what am I to do? take myself out to save myself in taxes? Or should I just work extra hard because of the lavish retirement I'm living?
Somebody help me.
Did you actually observe this yourself, or are you relying on the reporting of the MSM?
It wasn't an argument, it was just a tongue-in-cheek response to CodeToad's post about adult childen picking their parents' nursing home.
God bless you, I have more in common with Gen-X than my own.
The boomer generation cut-off should be 1959, not 1965. Then the next Generation should start in 1985.
I know very few Boomers who plan to be self supporting in retirement. Most of them are on the government teat, in one form or another and scream like a liberal when I tell them Social Security should be scrapped.
By the way my wife and I do give our kids a two parent family, and we are VERY anti- baby murder.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.