Posted on 09/05/2008 11:19:50 PM PDT by neverdem
I’ve argued this before with you. You often latch onto the blame the boomer game.
You have a chip on your shoulders about folks your parents age.
I suppose it comes from a personal shortcoming. I hope you work it out.
Btw...I’m not your daddy, at least I don’t think I am.
Son?
Because I am one and I find my fellow boomers to be, for the most part, the most pathetic crowd of incompetent do nothings I could ever imagine.
I am not one of that kind, and if you have any pride in yourself you won't stand up for the most destructive generation either. Sure we are all individuals, and deserve to be judged individually, but as a group, we are despicable leeches. Our financial geniuses just lost $1T being so brilliant playing an old old con game but claiming it was something new. The list goes on and on, and the chickens are finally coming home to roost.
You're right in describing the left from the '60s. Most of us weren't involved in drugs, protests, or anything of that nature. Now, however, the left is entrenched in everything from universities to the media to wall street.
However, most of us are living our lives, trying to keep our businesses going, and taking care of our families.
"...I find my fellow boomers to be, for the most part, the most pathetic crowd of incompetent do nothings I could ever imagine."
I guess that is why our country is in the tank. /s
I'm sorry your are such a negative person.
BTW, don't ever say this again..."the chickens are finally coming home to roost"...lest someone confuse you with Rev. Wright.
I hear you bud. I’m with you believe me.
I will be votong for Palin— McCain just happens to be on the ticket. He did choose her after all, that’s one big thing he’s done right.
I’m actually voting for a chance to support her again in four years. I just pray the vortex of stupidity, otherwise known as DC, doesn’t get to her.
Good article!
While the entrenched 60's leftists and their running dogs run our principal institutions, which jobs they got by being the best group of sycophants and go along to get along kind of folks in the history of our fair republic.
While you think everything is rolling along just fine, I guess you didn't notice the news item today about the government taking over FNM and FMC. Guess who lead that mess and guess who just inflated the economy another few hundred billion to pay for it. Yet - you guess it - another bunch of ivy league boomers who were so smart they don't need to follow the same accounting rules about income exceeding expenses that you have to if you run a small business.
Your kind of accounting is for the little folk and has been out of fashion in circles of power for about 20 years.
I am actually a very positive person. I believe that if you take facts as they exist, apply reason, figure out what you need to do, and work hard to put the solutions into place you can accomplish great things.
For instance, I view Petraeus very positively. He is a breath of fresh air. I am also very aware that it was these same unaccomplished boomer elitists who created the misdirected mess in Iraq that Petraeus had to get us out of.
And I am awfully hard on idiots who bury their heads in the sand and don't look to see what is going on around them and then try to think hard about it.
In other words, God gave you eyes to see, ears to hear and a brain to think. Try using them for a change. I am a positive person, and I believe with a bit of self-motivation you can do these things too.
In brief, your Dr. Pangloss act is not an anti-dote to the NYT.
You’re pathetic. Your notion that you can blame all of culture’s ills on one group based on age is nonsensical and reeks of someone who has yet to fully mature.
Why don’t you fess up and tell us why you are so bitter?
I suspect something lacking at home.
BTW...pull yer britches up in public would ya?
It’s hard to explain to my two boys what’s wrong with boys like you when they see ya with yer pants around her knees and yer ass crack showing.
Why do you argue like the leftist boomers this article complains of? In order to beat up on me, you put words in my mouth that I didn't utter, because I didn't blame "all of culture's ills" on us boomers.
What I do blame us boomers for is the really pathetic lack of leadership in all of our principal institutions. Few are running well, and the the overwhelming fraction of leadership positions in each of these is held by boomers.
The one exception that I know of is some parts of the US military. The military organization in Iraq is running pretty well right now, but we had to weed out a lot of bad leadership and came pretty close to a disaster before Bush tossed out his good ol boys and brought in Petraeus. And all of those guys in state and defense and the IPA, etc. etc., who damned near brought us to ruin are boomers.
It is boomers who just ran FNM and FMC into the ground and ran Bear Stearns into the ground. I mean you want to claim boomers are so great and they/we can't even count to the nearest $100B or so.
We have better in our generation, but they are not among the self-elect that is running the whole place right now.
And the other thing I want to know is why a name-calling weasel like you is trying to duck accountability - just like the leftists this article complains of - for what is going on. A real man bellies up to his responsibilities, stands up and marches forward showing folks how to do the right thing. It is weasels like you who go around blaming everyone else.
Try reading the article, and then using your brains to evaluate the argument instead of bloviating out of all of your orifices at the same time.
Or maybe you view dumping a $1T on failed economic institutions, all run by boomers, by a Treasury department and the Federal Reserve, all run by boomers, to be a positive act?
My fellow boomers are still in denial.
I’m truly sorry for whatever parenting or lack of left you so angry. You write like a little feller who had no daddy to be honest and that is a pity.
You sound like the psuedoconservative version of the don’t trust anyone over 30 crowd from 35 years ago and they were just as nonsensical then as you are now.
You can ping your little club of GenY crybabies and ya’ll can comfort each other over your anguish of what those big bad boomers have done to you.
Poor thing.
Hi stoner. Try an argument rather than name-calling.
I just loooove to jibe my Father about being a Boomer and tell him everything that’s wrong is their fault. Such good fun at the old man’s expense.
“give me a break....we never even dreamed of half the shite Ge X and Echo Boomers think is cool”
You got that right! And don’t forget the generation slackers.
Thank you again for tearing into these whiny 20 and 30 somethings. Taking personal responsiblity has been eliminated from these young punks with their precious self esteem and political correctness.
These boomer bashing threads really made me mad.
Yea....it’s like arguing with my 18 year old daughter....lol....maybe I am actually.
nah....she has more huevos than these crybaby girl jean wearing metero cakers
btw, while they’re bashing anyone their elder you reckon they bash the nearly 60,000 mostly boomers who died saving their pitiful bacon in Indochina 35-45 years ago?
when I see kids like this I thank God for the ones I have...
Yea....it’s like arguing with my 18 year old daughter....lol....maybe I am actually.
nah....she has more huevos than these crybaby girl jean wearing metero cakers
btw, while they’re bashing anyone their elder you reckon they bash the nearly 60,000 mostly boomers who died saving their pitiful bacon in Indochina 35-45 years ago?
when I see kids like this I thank God for the ones I have...
I think you are having an argument:
an oral disagreement; verbal opposition; contention; altercation
BTW, you are overlooking all the things boomers have brought to our world.
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