Baby Boomers Owe Young People an Apology--Conceits of the Horrid Generation

Frontpagemagazine ^ | 12-17-07

[ichabod1]

Nah, it started in the 1800s with Marx and then the labor movement, and the Haymarket Riot, and the communists used the great depression as a HUGE opportunity to wage class warfare. I see the modern version of all this crap as really having started with the French Revolution, but then it could have started with the Lutheran Reformation, but then Luther didn’t spring fully formed out of nowhere.

I think it goes back to when satan tempted Eve in the garden.

[stentorian conservative]

Very good. I can now leave this thread with a smile on my face. Thank You!

[mylife]

I know guys in their late 40’s in Afghanistan now

[Polyxene]

“I have NOTHING TO APOLOGIZE FOR.”

Double-Dog Dittos to that!! I started working when I was 16 and have been working ever since. (And by the way, paying income taxes, FICA, Medicare and all the other taxes for over 40 years.) Never had time to protest or do any of that other hippie/RAT/liberal/socialist/commie crap. Sorry, but I am looking forward to retirement!

[Chickensoup]

bump

[driftless2]

"generation...horrid"

Yes those awful Boomers. Obviously they didn't teach you how to spell or use proper grammar.

[prairiebreeze]

Geeze Prager, get a grip.

[SJackson]

I am sick and tired of the Boomer bashing. MOST of us have worked hard our entire lives. MIllIONS of us volunteered to serve in the military in Vietnam AND after, who do you think it was who manned the defenses that brought down the Soviet Union during the Cold War? Who do you think fought Desert Storm? Who do you think LEADS the current military? WE didn’t put in place the “Great Society” or Medicaid. WE didn’t put the judges on the Supreme Court that decided “Rowe”. WE weren’t the ones in Power in DC that bungled bothe Korea and Vietnam. We weren’t the ones who broke the piggy bank that was the “Greatest Generation” (Welfare, Medicare and Social Security).

Yes, Dennis is painting a generation with was likely his perception of those around him at the time.

[SJackson]

The question is, why did the Greatest Generation spoil their kids so badly?

:>)

[zeugma]

We were kind, thoughtful, concerned, helpful and polite. I see none of these qualities in many of the self serving young people today.

They would sooner run you over than step around you, that is, if they see you at all.

 

The funniest thing about this comment, is that it could have been uttered by just about any generation in history.

There is nothing new under the sun.

 

[qam1]

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[Porterville]

Read my tagline.

Horrid Loser.

Horrid- 1. such as to cause horror; shockingly dreadful; abominable.

Again... proving my point go away and retire already... find a cave or a condo or a timeshare... or whatever it is that you folks do.

[the OlLine Rebel]

“we were aware of the threat of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union, few of us believed that we were threatened with death anywhere near the amount we have scared you about death from secondhand smoke, global warming and heterosexual AIDS, to mention just a few of the exaggerated death scares we have inflicted on you.”

Ironically, 1 of the great fears “you” propogated WAS the “nuclear holocaust” sure to happen. I personally was raised in an environment with no fear about such things, but my younger cousin was scared about it in the ‘80s, mostly due to the preaching in schools.

[AdamSelene235]

To all you whining freeper gen-xers... This 'boomer' owes you squat. I wish the opposite were true. Xers owe the boomers around 70 trillion.

[paltz]

Finally, if we are going to go leftist and label a whole "worst" generation, I think the woe is me whining of the vocal partisans of "Generation X" give that unhappy breed a leg up on being the worst.

I find that hard to believe considering its Gen-xers and younger who are overseas right now in Iraq & Afghanistan...making the biggest sacrifices of all.

[SJackson]

Ironically, 1 of the great fears “you” propogated WAS the “nuclear holocaust” sure to happen. I personally was raised in an environment with no fear about such things, but my younger cousin was scared about it in the ‘80s, mostly due to the preaching in schools.

"you" I presume you meant the author.

If you as in me :>), in the 50s I ducked under desks and walked to the basement shelters like all school kids did.

Just a observation, we're talking elementary school, I remember taking it seriously, but fear, not really. Just bad guys out there. Teachers would probably teach it very differently today.

[Pining_4_TX]

Not this crap again! Who does he think is paying all the taxes that support the goodies currently going to the old geezer set? There won’t be anything left when boomers retire.

This is such BS!

[Lijahsbubbe]

Sorry but I have NOTHING TO APPOLOGIZE FOR.

I agree. Dennis is so syrupy and emotionally mushy at times that I can barely stand to read or listen to him.

[Lijahsbubbe]

First and perhaps foremost, we apologize for robbing many of you of a childhood.

Huh? I'm a boomer and was in elementary school when I had to start "sexual education". We didn't start the fire.

[Walkingfeather]

oh yes you do... you are personally responsible for .... dang.. where is my list... I’ll get back to you.