1960. I guess you really didn't have the opportunity to be 'lumped in' with those nasty selfish Boomers, did you?
What do people born after 1960 have in common with “Baby Boomers”? I resent being lumped together with them.
Was your dad a WWII vet?
Yeah, if not, it doesn;t make sense.........
The ping list will be along shortly to tell you what a blood sucking parasite you are and why you shouldn't even exist.
Since I was born in June '45, I'm not a "boomer" but I still think it's ok that you were born. Isn't that generous of me?
So do I (I always have.) And I was born in 1956.
This system should go belly up before I hit 55.
It means your dad was born after Shemp replaced Curly, but before Mickey Mantle's rookie card. /sarc
Well, I was born IN 1960 and dad was a WWII vet. Am just trying to figure out how to prepare as I’m on the tail end of the whole thing. By the time I was ready to buy a house the prices had gone up quite a bit due to the boomer presence. I imagine health care and old-age issues will be wise investments now - but then to pay for them for myself in 30 years.
I don’t plan on seeing any of my SS though. Between paying for my grandmother’s SS (who never paid a nickle into it) and funding the boomers I knew it was a losing proposition ever since I started earning a paycheck.
I agree. I was a 61 and I married a 69. I've always felt more comfortable with the X'ers.
I was born in 1961. My dad was 8 when WW2 started. I’m wondering why I am a boomer also.
United States
There is some disagreement as to the exact beginning and end dates of the baby boom, but the range most commonly accepted is as starting in 1946 and ending in 1964.[2][3][4] The problem with this definition is that this period may be too long for a cultural generation, even though it covers a time of increased births. If the gross number of births were the indicator, births began to decline from the peak in 1957 (4,300,000), but fluctuated or did not decline by much more than 40,000 (1959-1960) to 60,000 (1962-1963) until a sharp decline from 1960 (4,027,490) to 1965 (3,760,358). This makes 1964 a good year to mark the end of the baby boom in the U.S.[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomer
Maybe you are a SHADOW BOOMER?
In his book Boomer Nation, Steve Gillon states that the baby boom began in 1946 and ends in 1960, but he breaks Baby Boomers into two groups: Boomers, born between 1945 and 1957; and Shadow Boomers born between 1958 and 1964.[6]
"I resent being lumped together with them."
yes, you're such a much better person than any of those 80 million people because you were born whenever you were born rather than when someone else was born. It has nothing to do with your actions or character or acts of charity or how you raised your kids. It's totally about when you're born. Except on the "I hate *insert state name here* threads". Then it's about where you live. That's the over-riding decision maker on what a great person you are on those threads. In fact, I've discovered over the years that if you were born in 1972 and live in Independence Missouri, you're practically of royal lineage. We should all simply toss our old California born butts into the ocean so there is pleeenty of yummy food and drink and cushy cushions for you because you are a better person since you weren't born at the time I was or live in a state with a coastline! That way the retirement plan some other generation waaaayyyyyy before ours came up with that is failing will be obeekee kadobeekee until you are ready to draw from it. Who cares if those 80 million people were REQUIRED to pay into it! Who CARES if they had little or even NO warning that there was a problem! Why didn't that 58 year old preschool teacher slash maintenance man know better?? They deserve to work. Better yet! All people who were born whenever or wherever you care to place the marker get to work an extra 25 years or until they die because all they have contributed to society has been, oh, the internet, a man on the moon, medical advances, little crap. So much less than the brilliant 18 year olds we have today. Specially that gem I saw this morning outside the donut shop pickin' his nose and smokin' a Winston wearing a bandana. Yeppers. Makes TONS of sense....../sarc
Note to self: add boomer threads to the deadly (stupid) thread list you want to avoid at all cost.
Here's a thought. 70 BILLION dollars every year is spent on illegal aliens. Rather than kicking working Americans around because of when they were born, how about we kick out CRIMINALS who weren't born here AT ALL???? That'll certainly solve the problem, huh?
AMEN!
I remember when I was a child we weren't lumped in with them. Then, somewhere along the line those of us born in the early sixties became part of the Baby Boom. The Baby Boom is made up of people whose parents were in WWII. My parents were children during WWII. Some folks born in the early sixties had parents who were BORN during WWII. Guess the Boomers needed to add a few more to their ranks to make them seem even more important.
I AM NOT A BOOMER NOR WILL I EVER BE!!!! While those morons were wallowing in sex, drugs and protest I was playing with dolls. I came of political age during the Reagan years, not during Vietnam. I refuse to be categorized as one of them.
1960. I guess you really didn't have the opportunity to be 'lumped in' with those nasty selfish Boomers, did you?
I feel the same way as you - I was born in 1957.
The early boomers were 11 years old when I was born, they were 22 when I was 11, and so on.
Ha, I'm a 70's kid - yet we're all lumped together as part of the "Baby Boom generation".
And according to the new Soc. Sec. rules, I must work until I'm 66 2/3 years old to draw full benefits - if they leave any for us!
I don’t blame you...my generation has nothing to be particularly proud of, unfortunately. I think in our old age we’ll probably be known as “The Insufferable Generation.”
Hey, I’m a 1959 baby and I don’t want to be a boomer either!
Nothing.
The whole point of “BABY BOOM” was supposed to be that men coming back from “the war” (WWII) were massively impregnating their (wives) at a high rate, hence the “boom” in a short couple years after.
How it makes sense that a person spawned 18 years after the war is part of this “boom” I don’t know.