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The Great Boomer Comeuppance
American Thinker ^ | October 05, 2008 | Richard Berry

Posted on 10/05/2008 6:21:45 AM PDT by vietvet67

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To: mewzilla
Note to boomers from the generation coming right after you: Payback’s a...well, you know.

Absolutely true...there will not be enough money now to sustain them in their old age unless they totally try to kill the American dream of individual home ownership for future generations and nationalize health care as an insurance ponzy scheme to put more money into the hands of the government.

I watched these boomers from not to far a distance as a kid. They were and still are the most selfish a$s spoiled humans to ever walk the planet and you can be absolutely sure that they will not care one iota what they will be doing to the few grandchildren that they did have. As long as the "me generation" lives they will just keep taking and taking and taking.

81 posted on 10/05/2008 2:20:48 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Socialism makes you feel better about oppressing people.....)
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To: CE2949BB

I am a boomer. I am not a trust fund baby. I went to work at 13 to help buy necessities for my household. I worked my way through college and helped my husband get his college degree.

I did not have health insurance during this time, and arranged payments whenever my family needed dental care or hospitalization.

I have never had a student loan, or been on welfare. I saved money to send my children to college, and for my retirement.

I also helped my parents pay their bills. I retired 5 years ago to take care of my elderly father who would otherwise have to be in a nursing home.

I do not appreciate comments which lump me in with trust fund babies.


82 posted on 10/05/2008 2:23:00 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Wallace T.; Comparative Advantage; vietvet67
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.

These people haven't a clue

LBJ: Great Society

LBJ: Federal aid to education

LBJ: War on poverty

In 1964, upon Johnson's request, Congress passed a tax-reduction law and the Economic Opportunity Act, which was in association with the war on poverty.

LBJ: Medicare and Medicaid

LBJ was born in 1908

I would guess LBJ was no baby boomer.

83 posted on 10/05/2008 2:30:22 PM PDT by dragnet2 (We witnessed the biggest expansion of government in American history)
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To: greeneyes
Hey Boomer...Do you realize that you started every sentence with..."I". LOL..just kidding.

Maybe you didn't follow with the "crowd" and I'm sure there were a few of you but your generation will not have a very good name when the history books are written...unless of course we become a full blown Communist nation.

84 posted on 10/05/2008 2:35:12 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Socialism makes you feel better about oppressing people.....)
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To: EDINVA

“You seem to have missed the main point. No one is talking about the entire generation, merely the ‘elite’ of the generation.”

Elitism doesn’t age-discriminate.


85 posted on 10/05/2008 2:35:24 PM PDT by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: Rudder
"intellectually lazy"

Exactly. I guarantee a much higher percentage of non-boomers will be voting for Obama than McCain. A much higher percentage of non-Boomers voted for Kerry over Bush four years ago. Typical boomer-bashing.

86 posted on 10/05/2008 2:38:01 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: blueheron2

“the boomers didn’t lose the Vietnam war (WW II veterans did).”

Dittos!


87 posted on 10/05/2008 2:43:53 PM PDT by Brucifer ("The dog ate my copy of the Constitution." G W Bush)
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To: driftless2
“Typical boomer-bashing.”
Tell me one thing that the boomers in the Dem party have done that doesn't lead to Communism and what their counterparts actually did to stop them

“He will refuse to believe [the Communist plan for America] until he gets a kick in his fat bottom....[There will be ] psychological shock at what the beautiful [social justice] society will mean...they will become dissidents...they will be shot like cockroaches...nobody is going to pay them for their beautiful noble ideas...”

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6KUDv1wzraWhwlBt1

88 posted on 10/05/2008 2:45:27 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Socialism makes you feel better about oppressing people.....)
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To: Justa
"the generation"

Then you can feel free to discuss politics with my dyed-in-the wool Dems-until-death elderly parents who grew up and lived through the Great Depression and will run (actually limp) to the polls as fast as they possibly can to pull the lever for Obama. My fellow boomer brother (Vietnam vet) bro are the only siblings to reject the socialist paradigm. Oh yes, my youngest sibling (non-boomer) is also a full-fledged Obamaniac. All the people who with Roosevelt created the welfare state and voted in LBJ's Great Society scam of the sixties were non-boomers. Try reading some history.

89 posted on 10/05/2008 2:46:32 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: Earthdweller

Your huge mistake is to believe that all Boomers are huge libs. Of course there are boomers libs. But there were huge numbers of non-Boomers libs who voted in the welfare state in the thirties and the Great Society in the sixties. Tell me how many Boomers voted for those things? The answer is zero. Was the worst president in American history, Jimmy Carter, a Boomer? You know the answer to that.


90 posted on 10/05/2008 2:50:49 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: driftless2
Did you watch the video? Your generation fell for the propaganda hook line and sinker. The previous generations wanted a little and yours wanted it all...and now we will all pay out the nose.

Oh sure..the young people are being taught to vote for the likes of Obama but it was your generation that started massive programs to infiltrate the schools and create little commie robots that are now numb to what is about to happen to them.

I'm glad that you are not like the rest but there are too few of you.

91 posted on 10/05/2008 2:57:55 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Socialism makes you feel better about oppressing people.....)
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To: vietvet67
I liked the article, but get a little weary with the boomer-bashing. It wasn't the boomers who ushered in the welfare state.

We boomers have enjoyed the expansion of affluence and ease, and the arrogance that accompanies them. What I think this writer--and he's a good one--ought to realize is that human frailty is universal, not a generational attribute.

92 posted on 10/05/2008 3:11:17 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: CE2949BB

Generation Gap bookmark


93 posted on 10/05/2008 3:13:16 PM PDT by Canedawg (If the law supposes that, said Mr. Bumble, the law is a ass, a idiot.)
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To: vietvet67

I am hopeful that there were enough baby boomers that didn’t smoke pot and wear love beads who can salvage something to pass on to the next generation.


94 posted on 10/05/2008 3:15:51 PM PDT by BeckB
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To: greeneyes
I am a boomer.

-snip-

I do not appreciate comments which lump me in with trust fund babies.

You, my dear, are a minority. :)

Looking back on what I said, I realize that it may seem I was talking about the entire generation. That wasn't was meant; merely most of it.

How does it make you feel to see most of your generation act like spoiled brats?

95 posted on 10/05/2008 3:22:40 PM PDT by CE2949BB (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: vietvet67

And if you think Gen X and Y (the Parentless generations) are mad at Boomers now, just wait till we go into nursing homes.

I think the average life expectancy is going to go down.


96 posted on 10/05/2008 3:35:35 PM PDT by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993905/posts)
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To: vietvet67
The most powerful voting block in the United States is the retired, not the boomers. They are reason our children will be enslaved by Social Security and Medicare.

This is another ‘corporate greed’ hit piece at it's core. Congress has destroyed our industrial base with it's social engineering policies, minimum wage, high corporate taxes, etc. The American ingenuity has been directed towards new methods of success in the financial fields since manufacturing is no longer a viable field of endeavor for the truly visionary.

The current meltdown is the result of congress establishing and protecting Fannie and Freddie which have no penalty for failure since they are government secured entities. They were able to assume huge risk and forced the markets take that risk with them or abandon the playing field. Many smart ones like Wells Fargo did just that. If any private corporations had locked up 50% of the mortgages in the country congress would have screamed to high heaven.

To blame this on one generation is short sighted, lazy and arrogant. My father was in the Navy in WWII. My oldest brother graduated from high school in 1974. I graduated in 1987. We are not boomers, I am not generation X, my brother is a pastor with a doctorate, not a 70’ hippie or radical. Blame the ideology of the culprits, not their age.

97 posted on 10/05/2008 3:38:56 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (All gray areas are fabrications.)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan

Too late to learn from “The Greatest Generation”, as most of the ones still alive have lost their marbles.

I speak from the experience of a Boomer who took care of her Greatest Generation parents.


98 posted on 10/05/2008 3:40:00 PM PDT by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993905/posts)
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To: EDINVA
...the second sentence that sets this out rather clearly, not nuanced in the least.

To set something clearly out does not necessarily make it a meaningful distinction.

Baby Boomers vs Elite baby Boomers are different because...you fill in the blank.

99 posted on 10/05/2008 4:56:30 PM PDT by Rudder
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To: blueheron2
First of all the moron is painting a generation with to wide a brush

No, he is placing the blame on a certain segment of the BB generation, the elitist, liberal types. The same ones who love blaming every little problem this country has had on previous generations, and the ones most responsible for pitting one generation against another. And now that these idiots are in charge of things, they are getting a taste of their own medicine. This financial bailout mess can be laid squarely at the feet of the elitist boomers, whether it is those on Wall Street or in DC. You can't keep blaming previous generations for everything as most of them are dead, old, or retired.

100 posted on 10/05/2008 5:34:34 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (A happy member of the New Media.)
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