[what's up]

The problem isn't the baby boomers, it's the programs themselves

Unfortunately, when the baby boomers hit voting age around LBJ's time, they started to expand and vote in more programs time and time again.

Their parents started it, however, and raised the boomers with the socialist ideas.

Hopefully the boomers will figure a way out. For the children...seriously.

[riverdawg]

"... when the baby boomers hit voting age around LBJ's time ..."

The leading edge of the baby boomers were 18 when LBJ was elected in 1964. You had to be 21 to vote then. Most of the "Great Society" programs which expanded the scope of government intervention and brought us Medicare, Medicaid, etc. were enacted in 1965. All of the baby boomers (born from 1946 to 1964) were too young to vote at that time.

[winodog]

So the boomers are responsible for all the ills of the world from 1960 to 2030?

[kenavi]

Unfortunately, when the baby boomers hit voting age around LBJ's time, they started to expand and vote in more programs time and time again.

LBJ left office in 1968, the last Congressional races during his Administration were in 1966. The voting age was 21, so the youngest voters then had been born in 1945. It was not boomers who voted for the Great Society, it was the Greatest Generation, who over-extended the New Deal legacy.