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Boomers Aren't Going Anywhere
San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | November 13, 2005 | Ruben Navarrette Jr.

Posted on 11/13/2005 5:45:33 PM PST by RWR8189

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To: laney
boomers will expect an unprecedented array of food choices, ranging from organic arugula and endive to ethnic dishes.

BLECH!!!!

Me? I want nothing but the fattiest, BAD for you, but tastes good food!

101 posted on 11/13/2005 8:04:50 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (FR1....Varoooooom, Varooooooom!!!)
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To: Aracelis
I'll give you a clue - politicians born before the Boomer generation.

True enough... but notice who didn't rein this crap in when they took political power.

That's pretty weird.

Yep. I can't figure it out. They are SO conservative in every other way.

I read your posts. YOU are obviously not the "typical" boomer (if there is such a thing). I will consider it a priviledge to care for my parents when the need arises.

I've seen Logan's Run. Several times. One of my all-time favorite movies. Not very realistic, though. No WAY this society will ever sanction mandatory check-out times.

102 posted on 11/13/2005 8:05:03 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Vision; clee1

YOU paint EVERY boomer as the same......that's the same as saying EVERY Republican is a neocon.....sheesh. You must be young...

WE boomers would like to NOT have had to pay into social security, NOT be part of the JOHNSON "Great Society" etc.....we are not a MONOLITH, just like you are not


103 posted on 11/13/2005 8:06:02 PM PST by goodnesswins (DEMS....40 yrs and $$$dollars for the War on Poverty, but NOT a $$ or minute for the WAR on Terror!)
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To: RightField
The older you get . . . the older "old" is

I have a brother who is 8 years older than I am. When he was 30 and I was 22, I thought he was ancient. He's 68 now and that doesn't seem so old anymore.

104 posted on 11/13/2005 8:06:25 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Brad's Gramma

HAHA.Yeah I know what ya mean!
Real Cheeseburgers Pleese and Cherry Cokes!
No TOFU Burgers...


105 posted on 11/13/2005 8:09:05 PM PST by laney (little bit country,little bit Rock and Roll!)
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To: fizziwig

If it becomes an industry I'm going into business.


106 posted on 11/13/2005 8:09:31 PM PST by thoughtomator (Bring Back HCUA!)
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To: Larry Lucido
BS.....these boomers are also the ones that after their booming youth years of drugs and mutliple sex partners went into civil service of some kind and now are going to be sitting pretty collecting their unearned money....

I have people like that in my family....down on everything America stands for except their fat little pensions or paychecks....

107 posted on 11/13/2005 8:09:37 PM PST by cherry
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To: laney

Tofu? Wash your MOUTH out with lye! :)


108 posted on 11/13/2005 8:09:51 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (FR1....Varoooooom, Varooooooom!!!)
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To: Graybeard58

Gen Xers turned 40 this year so they are proably entering that Mid-Life Crisis now...


109 posted on 11/13/2005 8:10:37 PM PST by laney (little bit country,little bit Rock and Roll!)
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To: cherry

Oh my GOSH! You're kidding, right? You're lumping all of us in with some loser family members you have?

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


110 posted on 11/13/2005 8:11:03 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (FR1....Varoooooom, Varooooooom!!!)
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To: laney

Hot flashes? Stuff like that? Gray HAIR?

*gasp*


111 posted on 11/13/2005 8:11:36 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (FR1....Varoooooom, Varooooooom!!!)
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To: TheGeezer
"A more selfish, greedy generation as a whole has never existed."

oh I agree...and I'm a boomer as well....

112 posted on 11/13/2005 8:12:20 PM PST by cherry
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To: laney
Gen Xers turned 40 this year so they are proably entering that Mid-Life Crisis now...

Just because I stopped by the Porsche dealership on the way home from work last week doesn't mean I'm in some sort of crisis!!

:-)

113 posted on 11/13/2005 8:13:13 PM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Brad's Gramma

I agree! like eating cardboard!


114 posted on 11/13/2005 8:13:26 PM PST by laney (little bit country,little bit Rock and Roll!)
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To: Incorrigible

HAHA..Long as it's not RED!


115 posted on 11/13/2005 8:14:32 PM PST by laney (little bit country,little bit Rock and Roll!)
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To: clee1
No WAY this society will ever sanction mandatory check-out times.

Terri Schiavo leaps to mind. I caution everyone to remember what Thomas Jefferson said:

"The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance."

Euthanasia is coming to America, and it will become the preferred way of dealing with individuals society does not want. The word for this is, "Fascism", and it rears it's ugly head ever-so-slowly so as not to disturb public sensibilities and sensitivity. And then, my friend, the Constitution will have no meaning and no value. And neither will you...

116 posted on 11/13/2005 8:14:51 PM PST by Aracelis
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To: laney

Worse.

FAR worse.

When my very elderly (ha!) husband had open heart surgery years ago...the dietician talked me into trying that junk to get some good food into him.

Ha.
Ha.
Ha.

It's nasty nasty stuff.


117 posted on 11/13/2005 8:15:12 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (FR1....Varoooooom, Varooooooom!!!)
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To: Aracelis; clee1
Euthanasia is coming to America

Of COURSE it is! If we can continue to kill babies in the womb as easily as we do....this is the next logical step.

118 posted on 11/13/2005 8:16:35 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (FR1....Varoooooom, Varooooooom!!!)
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To: clee1
but notice who didn't rein this crap in when they took political power.

Sorry, but I wasn't even alive when FDR signed the "New Deal" into law.

119 posted on 11/13/2005 8:16:39 PM PST by Aracelis
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To: Brad's Gramma
If we can continue to kill babies in the womb as easily as we do....this is the next logical step.

And of course no one notices that if Roe v. Wade hadn't become law, we wouldn't even be having this discussion...for the tax base would be large enough to handle retiring Boomers.

120 posted on 11/13/2005 8:18:23 PM PST by Aracelis
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