The Great Boomer Comeuppance

American Thinker ^ | October 05, 2008 | Richard Berry

[Wallace T.]

This is collective guilt nonsense, about on a level with blaming all our problems on “da Joos” or whatever other conspiracy theory you fancy. The problems of moral, cultural, and financial decline and expansion of government powers well predate the rise of the Baby Boomers to prominence. (I hardly think FDR, who died in 1945, or LBJ, who died in 1973, qualify as Baby Boomers.) They will remain even after newer generations rise to political power. Obama is a very late Baby Boomer, and spent most of his childhood well removed from the American mainstream.

[Grampa Dave]

Excellent! This is the concern of many of us who have watched these liberal boomer bastards from hell work daily to destroy our country and our core beliefs:

"We must shudder to think how little of our civilization may remain standing when the Boomer Elite finally, mercifully, passes from the scene."

[winodog]

Most of us boomers are just hard working JSpacks.
And we can take care of ourselves.
Not to mention this country has been going into the toilet before the boomers were born.

So all the crybaby gen xers can kiss my skinny, hard working, boomer arse.

[blueheron2]

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[mewzilla]

All I’m saying is that folks tend to reap what they sow. And considering that in this country the youngers support the elders through a transfer of wealth, the folks sticking us with all this debt just might want to keep that in mind.

[Mediocrates]

Excellent post.

[eyedigress]

People didn’t loathe the Brady Bunch without reason. My family (siblings) were all raised in the 50’s thru the 70’s. We were supportive of each other and disciplined. This attack on my generation is BS. Gen x I would doubt ever bailed hay for a living at 14 years old.

[mewzilla]

Most of us boomers are just hard working JSpacks.

Ah, but how are they voting? For self-sufficiency or the nanny state?

And we can take care of ourselves.

Not gonna accept any Social Security, huh? Providing it's there, of course :)

[mewzilla]

See my reply 28 :)

If the boomer generation were made up of FReepers, we wouldn't have this problem :)

[decimon]

This generational crap is just another bigotry; another way to avoid addressing reality said the Boomer.

I'm 63 and was born in 1945 so I'm not actually a Boomer. I grew up with the Greatest Generation. The thieves, drunks, spousal abusers, gamblers, hustlers and big-government devotees, liberal and conservative. And a whole bunch of good, nice people.

[Tribune7]

Sums it up well. Bump

[listenhillary]

Good thing I’m an X’er

[decimon]

All I’m saying is that folks tend to reap what they sow.

The Great Depression?

[DooDahhhh]

I was born in 1945 (good vintage year). I do not think that it was our generation that did the economy in. Somewhere along the way, we raised a bunch of greedy folks and those who take no responsibility for trashing institutions.
the democrats come to my mind!

[equaviator]

This is a mischaracterization of BB’s who were too young to have served in the Vietnam war. If you were too young to serve or unless you had a family member or friend over there you were probably too young to have an authentic dog in the anti-war protest/hippie fight to end the war. If you were 12 or 13 years old in 1971...what the hell did you know about any of it except for the music, after-dinner wine bottle discussions between moms and dads and what evening news reports you could re-enact on the playgrounds of your schools or in the back yard at home? Heck if you were 14 or 15 back in ‘71, you didn’t even have a driver’s license. Sure, you can call yourself a Baby Boomer and maybe you thought you were a Yuppie but when you get further along the Baby Boomers’ year-of-birth timeline, the more of a wannabe you probably were. If you were one of those wannabes, what was it about the first phase of Baby Boomers that so turned you on except for the music? Even the nostalgia-kick of the ‘70’s was being aped by the little brothers and sisters. There you were, all “nostalgic” for the music and dress of the 50’s and early ‘60’s when you were barely into puberty! Today, there are subsequent generations who seem to be “nostalgic” for just about every decade’s pop culture between 9/11/01 and M*A*S*H...Get an identity, for crying out loud! By the end of 1990, I finally said to myself, “Self, everybody knows this is nowhere...” and that was the end of MY nostalgia trip. The end of my little rebellion. But if anyone thinks they can take away my music, they’ve got another thing coming...and BTW, I’m not nostalgic for the meaning of the songs...just for the music. For the most part, anyway. I mean, ho can you argue with “Because” by The Beatles or “Pure And Easy” by The Who?

[GraniteStateConservative]

all cop-out scapegoats, is his point.

[mewzilla]

Well, what we’ve got now is the world’s biggest Ponzi scheme. And it won’t be pretty when it collapses.

[eyedigress]

OK, I didn’t vote for SS. Roosevelts clan did. The Boomers shouldn’t get blamed for the New Deal. Now Social Security is just a fart in the wind. The way this Country raises heck about a billion here and there then passes nearly a trillion dollar influx has still got my head spinning. The children will have alot to pay for.

[Comparative Advantage]

The author’s focus was on the elite of the boomer generation. While some might think that still paints too broad a picture it seems that some here are confusing it with all members of the boomer generation.

[anniegetyourgun]

Good to see the unity and singleness of purpose on this thread. With this kind of in-fighting, all efforts to take back our country from the Left will be near to impossible.