Posted on 04/21/2007 11:29:16 AM PDT by GOPBlonde
Born in 1967. Not a big fan of the hippie generation. Most admiration to those of you who do not fit the stereotype.
Sounds awsome, when does it come out?
I hate being lumped in that group. I was born in 1960 and don’t consider myself a “baby boomer”. After all, most of the damage that was done in the sixties and early seventies happened before I was in high school...
Hi ChiTownBearFan: I think it’s out already.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul, but then Peter gets wise. So the both of them decide to rob baby Phil by sticking him with a baloon payment on due Federal Debt. Let him worry about it.
Me: born 1970. I cannot stand what the boomers have done to entertainment, patriotism, family values, church worship, education, etc...
But will people have guts to stand up to their own parents???
I’m reminded to get this on my library list. Chris Buckley is a hoot.
Don’t plan to retire? That’s because you are shallow, have no life and need to pay off the $1,000,000 mortgages on your McMansions.
Why do I get the feeling the baby boomers in power are counting on illegal immigrants to fill the tax revenue gap the lower number of baby busters can not make up?
Awsome, Im definitly asking for this for graduation
You got that right, Jagman - I was born in 57; I will die at the workbench!
Bill & Hillary Clinton are the quintessential Baby Boomer, they and their type; and I regret to have to say that a lot of Gen. X’ers are of the same liberal hogwash ilk. However, there are those of us Boomers who have worked, not demonstrated, not become decadent liberals, and paid into the Social Security sytem that helped upkeep OUR parents for a very long time. A lot of us don’t ever expect, nor even really want, to retire. We have forged ahead creating our own jobs and niches, have been at the forefront of the “work from the office at home crowd” - on the cutting edge of it; and, frankly, most of the Gen. X’ers could not step in and do our particular indidividualized, specialized jobs formulated over a period of the last thirty or so years. So, we’ll live as long as God allows,thank you very much, make our own individual living without much help from Social Security or the Gen. X’ers, God willing, and the Gen. X’ers who think we need to die and get out of their way can just quit over-stereotyping.
SOYLENT GREEN IS MADE FROM PEOPLE! PEEEOPPLLEE!!
Born in 1970 to pre-Baby Boom parents. No one in my family can stand the hippies. But not all the Baby Boomers were irresponsible hippies, just most of them.
Oh, and you’ve found a better way? You don’t know me. I do have a life, which I enjoy, and working hard at something I love is a big part of that enjoyment. I own my own business, so I don’t see how I’m blocking any busters who want to climb the corporate ladder, and I don’t own a McMansion. Sheesh!
Born in 1961, I consider myself to be a member of the Blank Generation.
Too young to enjoy hippie free love - but old enough to be threatened by AIDS;
Drinking age changed from 18 to 21, when I was 17;
Too young to go see the Beatles, Hendrix or Duane Allman - but old enough to have all the Disco and Bee Gees you could want (Not);
To young for the fresh experience of sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll - but old enough to see that kills wonderful artists and people in that lifestyle;
Too young to buy a new pony car like a ‘67 GTO, ‘69 Camaro or the kind of Mustang Carol Shelby worked on - But old enough to buy a Mustang II or any other Detroit crap choked with emissions modifications mandated by Washington regulations;
Too young to know what a good economy was - but old enough to know national wage and price controls and stagflation;
Too young to really understand what the big deal was with Richard Nixon - but old enough to know why Jimmuh wore a sweater;
Too young to know really cheap gas - but old enough to sit in gas rationing lines;
We created Punk Rock;
Too young to own real property and participate in the 1980’ real estate boom;
Too young to have enough wealth to really benefit from the 5,000 Nasdaq - but old enough to have lost a bundle by the time it hit 1400;
So yes, I am a member of the Blank Generation - and I am just waiting for the next time those no good, liberal, politically correct, big government Baby Boomer bastards to try and screw me.
See post 18
So don’t retire. Work until you are 83 years old, and you have enough 401(k) funds rolled up so you can go on ocean cruises and climb mountains evry spare moment you have. Nobody expects you to be eating dog food (not that it is any longer a safe source of nutrition). But workaholic ethic aside, just what ARE you going to do? Venture capital funding, with its gamesmanship aspect, would be another possibility, though there is the risk of seriously deflating all your accumulated assets. Adopting some younger person, either as a mentor or as a project of improving somebody’s life, also is a meaningful course in the remaining decades of your life. A LOT of baby boomers will reach the century mark, and they could be an important link for the generations that follow.
Nobody can seriously expect to be living off their Social Security check by then. If you don’t have it put away for your own future, expect to be a charity case all the rest of your life.
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