[Comparative Advantage]

Spot on! Well said.

[Dems_R_Losers]

My 15-year-old son came home from school the other day and said “thanks, mom, your generation has screwed up this country so bad that mine is going to have to spend decades fixing it.” I had to tell him he was right. I also told him it was no accident that our two candidates for president are a pre-Boomer and a post-Boomer. We had Boomer presidents for the last 16 years and they messed up everything that Reagan and Bush had fixed. My son said he wants McCain to be elected because the generation before the Baby Boom knew what it was doing. I guess his school has done a lousy job of indoctrinating him!

[decimon]

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

Boomer = Jew = Black = Irish = Italian...

[Rudder]

All boomers think alike. That’s the intellectually lazy position of this would-be pundit.

[blueheron2]

First of all the moron is painting a generation with to wide a brush. Secondly , who taught the so called elite their values? Exactly. Just like the boomers didn't lose the Vietnam war (WW II veterans did) it sounds like someone in search of a coherent thought just went off the rails.

[rbg81]

Bookmark. Of course, this is not true of all Boomers (as I am one), but it true of the ones that control the machinery of state and finance. We are the generation that had all the advantages and should have known better.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

bookmark

[mewzilla]

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

[ken21]

spot on!

i noticed that the boomers sucked when i was in college.

my friends and roommates grew up on green leafy streets with doting moms.

their parents’ money paid for their educations and constant travel.

i grew up with nothing.

i noticed they hated working people. visiting our family farm they laughed at the manure and the hard work. they were above that.

[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."

[Mediocrates]

Excellent post.

[Tribune7]

Sums it up well. Bump

[listenhillary]

Good thing I’m an X’er

[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?

[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.

[Safetgiver]

We are seeing in the Wall Street implosion the inevitable result of the Boomer Elite outlook and the behavior it spawned. ......We are seeing in the Wall Street implosion the inevitable result of Socialism and the behavior it spawned.There. Fixed it.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Talkin’ ‘bout my g-g-generation! Right on, brother!

BTW, for all the Boomers here that feel slighted, get a life. This article isn’t about you personally; it’s about the pervasive, self-absorbed character of our cohort (meaning our collective selves). Now go have a good cry and buck-up.

[Will88]

As a Boomer, I’d agree that enough bad things can’t be said about the leftist wing of the Boomer generation. But they were never anymore than half, and likely significantly less than half of the generation.

Before I’ve made the statement that, during the ‘60s, it was the Greatest Generation ‘journalists’ holding a microphone in front of a zonked out hippie, or some raging anti-war nutcase, and pretending those maladjusted characters had some great wisdom to impart to the world. The GG put the hippies and anti-war protesters and underminers on the evening news and treated them like great pillars of knowledge and wisdom.

And, many of the changes in laws, and in education and school curriculums, and the tearing down of traditional values, all this started when the GG held most all the power and influence in American society. The Boomers never really came to power until 1992 with the election of Slick Willie. Of course, they’d been steadily entering more positions of power and influence before then, but the GG held the reigns of power well into the 1980s, and vast changes in traditional values and institutions had taken place by that time.

So, this deconstruction of America didn’t start with the Boomers and it won’t end with them. Lots of shortsighted, wishful thinking going on if anyone believes the end of Boomer dominance in society will really change much. It’s also Boomers who fought and held back many of these trends. The Boomers were something near a 50/50 generation when it came to supporting or going against the trends discussed in the article, just as the entire country seems to be on most issues today.

[qam1]

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