Posted on 10/05/2008 6:21:45 AM PDT by vietvet67
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
“the boomers didn’t lose the Vietnam war (WW II veterans did).”
Dittos!
“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...”
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.
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.
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.
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.
Generation Gap bookmark
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.
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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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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