Boomers Aren't Going Anywhere

San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | November 13, 2005 | Ruben Navarrette Jr.

[Larry Lucido]

So they stay productive and that's bad....how?

[EagleUSA]

"OLD POWER" --- YEAAAAHHH!!!

[Mr. Mojo]

Hippies who turned into yuppies are about to turn into golden oldies. Just what I wanted to hear: more about the baby boomers.

And one of the reasons while seemingly every other television commercial these days is for a drug product -- impotence, high cholesterol, heart disease, depression, you name it. .....and the last 30 seconds of these commericals is dedicated to listing all the (usually very nasty) possible side effects at lightning speed...

[BunnySlippers]

My local DVD rental place has a sign advertising senior rates ... so I asked about them. Senior begins at 85 years.

[Graybeard58]

I was born in June '45. I just missed being a boomer. Maybe I am a pre boomer.

Nah, I'm just an old fart.

[Graybeard58]

If I had a resturant I would have senior discounts but you would have to be 100 years old and prove it. Just like they let kids under 2 eat free I would let 100 year olds eat free. After all they probably eat about as much as a 2 year old.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Boomers who retire may be going somewhere. According to this article, 650,000 boomers are predicted to leave Massachusetts when they retire:

http://wbz1030.com/massnews/MA--BoomerRetirement-gn/resources_news_html

[goodnesswins]

It's either Boomers or ship em in from Mexico or India.....and furthermore....the older you are, the more conservative you USUALLY are....

[fizziwig]

Don't forget that the boomers have been the prime promoters of euthansia. And they want it for themselves. This was first announced by the Who, in the song "my generation", with the lyrics "I hope I die before I get old."

Maybe we need to call on doctor kevorkian to help the boomers fulfill their wish....eh?

[Appalled but Not Surprised]

This is, after all, the generation that helped deliver on the promise of civil rights for blacks and Hispanics and equal rights for women, that fought and helped end the war in Vietnam, and that helped drive a corrupt president from office.>>>

Wow! FIVE lies before you hit a period! This is the generation that watched the civil rights struggle on television, cared nothing at all about hispanics, butchered its own offspring (while wondering where the workers are to keep SS going), refused to preserve the people of Southeast Asia from genocide, and that hounded a just man from office and replaced him with a mushy wimp who almost surrendered to Soviet aggression.

I would disenfranchise every single Boomer in the country who didn't have combat experience in Nam or later.

[Clemenza]

Better the boomers who voted for REPUBLICANS and made our economy more DYNAMIC than the generation who came before them. However, the boomers better look out as us GenXers aint going to let them leach off of us.

[TheGeezer]

When will my generation pass like a bolus from the final orifice and leave the nation better of? A more selfish, greedy generation as a whole has never existed.

Sheesh.

[sheik yerbouty]

Shi'ite! I thought this was about nuclear submarines!

[LdSentinal]

The phenomenon began when the nation's first boomer president, Bill Clinton, was accused by some of dodging the draft to avoid going to Vietnam.

No, it began when DEMOCRATS back in 1988 accused Dan Quayle of dodging the draft.

[Gay State Conservative]

So basically the boomers will have their health, plenty of cash, and lots of political clout to get their way.

The retirement years of Boomers isn't likely to be nearly as rosey as that,particularly the cash part.

[stylin19a]

The Newsweek article mentions a retirement survey conducted by Merrill Lynch that found that 81 percent of boomers plan to work past the age of 65.

well duh ! some have to work past 65 year old....full SS doesn't kick in til 66 for those born 1943-1954. Born 1960 or later ? Full SS doesn't kick in until 67.

[Vision]

People are busy talking about what this country is going to look like in a few years when a cohort of 78 million Americans acquire a title they never wanted: senior citizen.

They'll be in a world of hurt. The Boomers' have destroyed American for too long and a anti-socialist payback's a bitch

[LdSentinal]

The Reagan Generation are coming to power, at least politically.

[Frank T]

"Thanks to lifestyle habits and medical advances, they probably will be the healthiest group of elderly in history. Thanks to extended employment spans, they will be the wealthiest. Thanks to their huge voting bloc, they will be the most powerful."

When the exodus of younger voters does happen, of the people who will be paying for these entitlements, I wonder where most will wind up going? I'm hoping Australia.