[illinoissmith]

"BTW, did you notice all the young kids following those old democrat goats leaving the hearing room during the Alito Confirmation shows on C-span?"

What do you expect? That's the side that shares the ideology of the schools, K-Ph.D.

FYI, I'm generation Y, and nothing but total brainwashing could keep someone from my generation from noticing how the boomers are going to be eating us alive in a decade or two, between social security and government health care for oldsters. So those kids you see following the democrats around, they're as brainwashed as any cult member who mind is warped such that they don't notice they are being used by the human parasites they worship.

From my vantage point, boomers have caused my generation to grow up in more selfishly-broken homes than any other generation in American history, and are setting up a situation in which they'll be taking a huge chunk of our paychecks so that they can live despite having spent their working years building up massive credit card debt and otherwise living extravagantly beyond their means.

Disgusting, selfish generation, summed up best by the bumper sticker "I'm spending my grandchildren's inheritance". Yeah, in more ways than one.

On the plus side, the draft is mostly gone (and its loss is a great boon to a free, technological society - to the extent that the state plays dice with people's lives, people will be less likely to invest in the sorts of high investment life tracks which ultimately make or break the society... why should one embark on a chemistry degree if the state could order one, halfway through one's work, to take a suicide mission? ... you can't expect people to act like free people if they're not really free. anyway, why is it good to have on the battle field people who were forced there against their will?), and racism is down, although a tragic net of leftist insanity (getting stuck on victimhood, failing to form functioning families) now seems to be keeping down many black people instead.

Alito's opening comments about being a working class kid going to Princeton... it's people like him, if anyone, who are going to prevent his generation from putting the US on the path of death Europe has chosen. Thank goodness for the meritocracy and free market that enables hardworking sane folks to upset the political power of the hedonistic or power-only-driven spoiled brats of the world...

Still, something MUST be done about social security, and the taxpayer-funded drugs for old people is NOT a step in the right direction...

[Radix]

Boomers did not set up the social security scam, and our generation and the next will put more into that Ponzi scheme than any other.

I see the Xers, the Ysers and whoever follows as being the harbingers of euthanasia as a government institution.

[DustyMoment]

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.