Posted on 01/15/2006 10:06:43 AM PST by Chi-townChief
Okay, you really want to place morality and the 1960s together? But if you're going to do that, I guess it makes sense to compare it to a communist revolution.
We're healthier and more physically fit than The Greatest Generation --we work out to tick you off!
And walking 6 miles to school each way, both of them uphill...
It wasn't until the hippie bastards in the 60's made them popular that we had a problem involving kids.
Jesus Christ, one of these days we REALLY WILL be required to use HTML markers for sarcasm! Geeeez!
Oh to be a twenty or thirty something again and still know it all!!
A few points for you to ponder. Gen Xers have the highest rate of bankruptcy of any generation. Gen Yers are the slowest ones (to date) out of the box. More Gen Yers are still living at home well into their 20s, trying to figure out what they want to be when they grow up.
Between Gen X/Yers, the illiteracy/functional illiteracy rates have skyrocketed and, so far, the greatest contribution of Gen Xers has been 8 years of Clinton.
With respect to SS/Medicare, you're right, we're going to suck it dry - but we have also spent the past 50+ years paying into these systems. However, before you burn up the last of your remaining brain cells fretting over this, I fully expect Congress to face a fiscal reality in the next decade or so and reduce the government bennies for the boomers.
Hard to figure how the Boomer scumbag generation gets credit for civil rights. Boomers were born in 1946-1964. Jackie Robinson played for the Dodgers when the oldest Boomer was only three. Brown v. Board of Education was 1954, when the oldest boomers were 8, and the youngest were a decade away from being born.
Those who fought in WWII were the ones who were adults during the achievement of Civil Right; the Boomers just turned the Civil Rights movement in an excuse to burn buildings, smoke dope, and then blame the man for the burnt-out cities and lack of jobs.
The great catalysts for the civil rights of blacks were several:
The experience of serving side-by-side with blacks in WWII;
MLK's appeal to Christianity, the religion rejected en masse by boomers, hippies, and liberals;
The national need for an end to economically counter-productive segregationist policies;
and probably several I'll be ashamed I ommitted...
None of them were the flower-powered, drug-addled, disease-infested, self-loathing scumbags who are the media-selected representatives of the Boomer generation.
My point exactly although you articulate it much better.
>>There are approximately 76 million Baby Boomers and they represent the single largest demographic group in existence today.
That is exactly the problem. They didn't have enough of us, their children. Instead, too many of them were so self-absorbed they wanted the ability to abort any inconvenient children. (Present company excepted, of course)
"It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish” – Mother Teresa
>>we are here and we are not going away, so deal with it Greatest Generation and x-ers.
Statistically, you will be leaving first. When enough of the BBr’s have left, the rest will wish they had. This is not a threat, just a prediction. I was born in 65, I expect to pay for programs that will be defunct long before I can use them, then be blamed for all the BBr’s did, the worst of both worlds, thanks for the legacy BBr’s.
>>When we are gone, so are all of your excuses for your failures.
Since when did death stop people blaming the deceased? Blaming the dead is easy (they are unable to defend them selves).
Sorry, but this logic seemed to scream at me…
I would really rather forget most of what we were and most of what we did. But our scumbag peers who are proud of all of that won't let us.
Boomers are more likely to know the difference between "your" and "you're", and when to use each one. ;-D
Boomers are pretty much into or past menopause at this point. If abortion is still happening, it's the next generation that's having them.
It is the political pressure exerted by the boomer's which is causing the carnage to continue. Just look at the Atilo hearings, the boomer's #1 concern is continuation of abortion, they know in their hearts it is wrong, and they are desperately trying to save their legacy from being the generation/party which killed 100 million babies.
My opinion is to use boomer--they already identify and embrace the term. By 2029 every last boomer will be over 65.
25 cent coffee for boomers at McD's starting in 2010. What do you think?
I think it's a real leap to insist that all boomers want to preserve Roe; and as I said, if younger women are not having abortions, the problem is solved.
I also think it's quite a stretch to call the Court nominee "Atilo", after all the press he's gotten in the past week.
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