[LouAvul]

As a "boomer" I can only say my generation helped destroy America. Self-centeredness and crass materialism are our contributions. Is it too late to undo the harm we've done?

[Mulch]

Its a shame that the greatest generation raised the worst generation.

[Diddle E. Squat]

The boomers are actually split into 2 groups, those who were and stayed liberal, and those who rejected such(either initially or over time.) Most of the latter will probably fare well in their final days with good family relations. Many of the former can look forward to enjoying the fruits of their actions while abandoned in a nursing home.

Way oversimplified, but makes the point.

[alicewonders]

I'm a boomer too. I started out liberal in the early 70's & considered myself a feminist, at one time I wanted to join a commune. I've been a vegetarian, a pothead & pretty much a hippie in my youth.

Now I'm older & wiser, I've come full circle & in many ways, am even more conservative than my parents. I'm embarassed to say that I think in great numbers - baby boomers are the worst parents I've ever seen.

I hate those commercials on TV that hearken back to our pasts, with vintage rock music from the days, telling us to get our retirement in good shape. It reminds me of how selfish & self-centered we still continue to be.
It will take a few generations to correct some of the damage we've done. I just hope the younger generations "revolt" & go back to the right way.

Having said that, I still think the 50's & 60's were the golden years for childhood - THEY WERE GREAT! We've been the luckiest generation ever.

[kenth]

boomer ping

[Prov3456]

Listen to Dr. Terry Grossman, 58, author of "The Baby Boomers' Guide to Living Forever" and operator of a Denver anti-aging clinic: "As an official member of the boomer generation, I do not believe it was intended for us to die. We were special right from the get-go--dying wasn't part of our script."

Wow!

I agree with you, LouAvul. I am also a boomer. The arrogance and self-centeredness of Dr Grossman is almost beyond comprehension. He should have thought through this "not going to die" stuff before he and his peers legalized abortion and slowly-but-surely, drip-by-drip, ushered in euthanization of the elderly and "inconvenient." Depending on how he raised his own children, in the not-too-distant future, he may find himself on the receiving end of everything he worked so hard for.

How arrogant and ironic!

[wtc911]

As a "boomer" I can only say my generation helped destroy America. Self-centeredness and crass materialism are our contributions. Is it too late to undo the harm we've done?

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Speak for yourself...I'm a first round 'boomer' and I'll stack my contributions to this country (and those of all my brothers and sisters) up against those of any previous group. If you think you've done harm then get busy and redeem yourself...just leave those of us who got it right out of your "I'm a boomer and we suck" party.

[RadioAstronomer]

As a "boomer" I can only say my generation helped destroy America. Self-centeredness and crass materialism are our contributions. Is it too late to undo the harm we've done?

You maybe. Don't lump alll of us together.

[Jimmy Valentine]

I have to say that I am not happy with our overall performance.

It is more than a little unfortunate that Bill and Hillary Clinton have managed to become the symbols of our generation.

[EternalVigilance]

America is you and me

If our land is no longer beautiful
Or the home of the brave
If we're no longer free
If the wicked are reigning
As they shouldn't be
In the end, my friend
Remember this
America is you and me

EV

[ExtremeUnction]

Self-centeredness and crass materialism are our contributions. Is it too late to undo the harm we've done?

I can't answer right now. I'm heading out the door to buy my 60" plasma HDTV!!!

[beef]

"The boomers have set up institutions that will continue to benefit them, at the expense of other groups, as they grow old and live longer than any other generation,"

Every generation lives longer than the previous one. This is progress, not some kind of boomer conspiracy. As far as "institutions" like social security are concerned, those were established in the 30's, and underfunded in the 40's, 50's 60's and 70's by the current crop of beneficiaries and their predecessors. Boomers have been financing their retirement since then and are now facing diminished or nonexistent benefits themselves. The Greatest Generation were certainly good soldiers, but I think overall they were lousy commanders (not counting RR, of course!). By the end of the 70's the GG had run a lot of our business and political institutions right into the toilet. Since then, things have been turned around largely by the efforts of boomers.


"As a "boomer" I can only say my generation helped destroy America. Self-centeredness and crass materialism are our contributions. Is it too late to undo the harm we've done?"

Can we take up a collection and get this guy a hair shirt?

Ok, flame on!

[Clemenza]

They partied and protested, then grew up to dominate America with their chutzpah and sheer numbers. Yet now, as the oldest of the baby boomers prepare to turn 60, there are glimmers of doubt within this "have it all" generation about how they will be judged by those who come next.

They also fought in the rice paddies of Vietnam, created the Leveraged Buy-Out (allowing corporations with poor credit to gain more capital) and voted in the first all-Republican government in generations.

The boomers were, in many ways, superior to the WWII generation. I say this as a child of a boomers.

[DustyMoment]

This boomer doesn't know WTH some of you apologists are talking about. While you were partying naked at Woodstock, I was serving my country in 'Nam. While you turning on and tuning out, I was getting my college education at night, working during the day, paying my taxes and being responsible.

I also look at the many contributions made by boomers. In case some of you were too stoned to recognize it, boomers did much to put people into space, move the computer revolution forward and added to our knowledge of science, the universe and the environment. We didn't do it by ingesting chemicals that helped us tune out, we did it by hard work and taking responsibility.

To tar us all with the same brush is as disingenuous as claiming that all liberals are anti-American. They aren't. And all boomers aren't selfish.

[Criminal Number 18F]

This is an example of restriction of range. Everyone remembers the boomers who "turned on, tuned in, and dropped out." Anyone remember the three million or so that went to Vietnam?

The ones on the dope and dropout track run today's papers and the only VN vets they like are the ones who are phonies like Joe Ellis (who fabricates atrocity stories from his desk at Mt Holyoke College) and Ward Churchill (a phony combat vet AND a phony Indian), turncoats like John Kerry (who met with the NVA in Paris and came back to the USA to do their bidding), and surrender monkeys like John Murtha (whose policy was to cut and run in Vietnam in 1975, Beirut in 1982, Somalia in 1993 and Iraq in 2005 -- he's nothing if not consistent).

Remember, there are more boomers than the far-left, navel-gazing boomers of the media. But it's going to be delightful to watch what goes around come around to them. Whose gonna visit Dan Rather in the nursing home in a few years? Who's gonna miss Maureen Dowd? Her cat, maybe? Cause that's the relationship choice she's got left, thanks to 50+ years of left-boomer self-centredness: regular or Siamese....

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Chaguito]

Yes. </pessimism> (Rats! Tag won't work)

[gridlock]

BFL

[operation clinton cleanup]

"There's a fear that there's going to be nothing left -- that they're going to be picking up the pieces for this six-decade party we had, cleaning up the mess," said DeCurtis, 54. "There's some truth to that, I guess."

Being born in 1965, I guess I am a post boomer. Don't forget that the "Greatest Generation" also set the stage (unintentionally) for most of the economic problems that are coming home to roost. I think most of the WOT veterans will return home and take more of an interest in their future and be more politically active than they otherwise would have been without 9/11.

[GOPJ]

boomer bump

[mr_hammer]

Damn it, I am not a "Boomer". I am a "Jonser"

Just drop it already, my view were shaped by Ronnie Reagan the Great, not Veitnam or Watergate!

I am repulsed at the idea of being associated with "The Boomer" generation.

I am 44, born in 61

[WilliamofCarmichael]

If anyone thinks that the "boomers" were mostly McGovern-Fonda, pro-Ho, good-time, drugs, sex, and rock-and-roll liberals or were simply apolitical and greedy consider the instant popularity of conservative talk radio today.

Consider the demise of the FCC "Fairness Doctrine" that released station owners to fearlessly permit real discussion of political and ideological issues; i.e., modern talk radio, a product of everyday Americans

No more, "fairness is one hour a week of William F. Buckley on PBS."

And most of all consider this, for the first few years of modern talk radio it was impossible to count the number of callers who exclaimed, "I didn't know others believed as I believe! I didn't know that others knew that, it's never on TV news! You (the host) are saying what I've always said . . ."

We were the silenced majority.

Consider this also, it was some among the boomers who fought the Viet Nam war and took the crap dished out by the MSM, universities, politicians, et al. Thank goodness that idiot John Kerry decided to run as a "war hero" and gave the Viet Nam vets a chance to speak out after all these years.