Posted on 11/04/2008 7:30:41 AM PST by iThinkBig
The Baby Boom Generation will never be mistaken for the Greatest Generation that survived the Great Depression and defeated evil in a World War that killed 72 million people. I hate to tell you Boomers, but putting a yellow ribbon on the back of your $50,000 SUV is not sacrifice. Our claim to fame is living way beyond our means for the last three decades, to the point where we have virtually bankrupted our capitalist system. Baby Boomers have been occupying the White House for the last sixteen years. The majority of Congress is Baby Boomers. The CEOs and top executives of Wall Street firms are Baby Boomers. The media is dominated by Baby Boom executives and on-air stars. We have no one to blame but ourselves for the current predicament. Blaming Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson for our dire situation is a cop out. Baby Boomers had the time, power, and ability to change our course. We have chosen to leave the heavy lifting to future generations in order to live the good life today.
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This is very unfair to Boomers because it ignores their one cultural achievement: creation of the finest pornography industry on the face of the planet...
That would be true to categorize the whole generation as a failure. As in my comments just after posting have, mixed feelings about the article. Our society is split between traditional values of liberty first and equality as the first focus. I am in the liberty first camp. But the other half are in the great socialist experiment camp and is forcing my generation to pick up the tab for decades of promises that at some point cannot be kept, as certainly I will feel less need to work 16 hours a day to pay for an entire segments fat benefits. Self-preservation is human nature. The Boomer group just happens to be dominantly in power and sucking the last of the wealth from the system as they go. From the financial system to health care, the tab to pay is enourmous. I have no qualms about putting up my older, less responsible relatives in old age, but to have the government begin forcing me to pay is an entirely different matter.
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The counter culture movement was a brain child of the Soviet Union and China and was heavily subsidized by the Communist party. Boy did that nasty investment pay off in spades.
BIG THUMBS UP! We all should reap what we sow. Long live Liberty!
This article nails it - up to the point where he wishes President Obama will rise to the occasion. Of course, he could have been being facetious.
As one of that generation that has lived within my means I do believe I may live to see the ones who have not be forced to adapt or die.
That is a really good point. And I have come to conclusions that in a culture of absolute security, people get bored and self-destructive focusing on instant gratification. We do have an entire universe to explore and death to defeat.
HAHAH. I actually like disco. Perhaps at 10 years old at the time I didn’t hear it quite so much as you other kind folks here :)
It is true that values are handed down; but it is also true that it is a tradition that can be started at any time. If you feel you are on the wrong path it is never too late to start over. I am not trying to say you are on the wrong path- but am saying in general anyone that thinks they are can change, and if they have children they can pass that change down.
One can always start actively supporting the troops- they need it. Attending church and making other lifestyle changes is also always an option.
I do see people that are dysfunctional in my generation; but I also see many that are upholding the traditions and passing them down to a new generation.
That was a great reply, thank you! We have much burden to bear from the past’s failed leadership. But the good news is we may also be called a “Great Generation” once we have been refined by fire (hopefully NOT literally).
I did mention the ones in the military right now. There the ones coming back with the right ideas coming back from Iraq on how to make our generation better, wanting to become congressmen and make there country better. ( My friends who are married are all married to military men who are amazing. They are the most responsible people I have met my age).
However, living on a college campus and through friends through High school I see so much drug and alcohol usage it’s not even funny. I hear about people smoking $200 worth of weed for a party. I see people who are amazing bright people using Ritalin to stay up all night to study. And I go to a very conservative private college. I’ve been with friends to the public colleges to see parties going on every weekends with my best friend so drunk I really didn’t want to be near her.
I’ve also seen huge people coming together for a cause (not a socialist one). I see people doing amazing things for God. I see both sides of it, and I do know that some of is that we are young. But I see my parents, and my other friends parents, acting so irresponsibly in someway or another that really has effected their kids to the core. I know that parents aren’t perfect, and I don’t know if it’s large amount, but I see horrible effects due to it. As our generation though, I see two things. I see us falling into the same trap that our parents have, or actually rising above that to be responsible. Because that’s what I see missing with a lot adults that I know, and I sure don’t want to be that way.
I would have to agree. That and the counter-culture movement of the 1960’s. When a culture gets bored because the basics of life are easy to come by, social experimentation often follows.
Thank you for serving. I was just a child at the time but you vets sure seemed like you got the raw end of the stick from society as a whole. The left always seems to *hit on our military and it is disgraceful.
Bingo. And it seems we will have a time like the seventies with the left in charge, until the country has to relearn that liberalism (as Savage puts it) is indeed a mental disorder.
Generational labels are there either to make life easier for journalists (who love to label whole groups of people) or to enable advertisers to sell you something (by appealing to the cliches of your generation).
I can’t believe how stupid, we boomers, are...
Bingo comment. The entire article does not seem to have been read by many here commenting.
by Jim Quinn...
Jack Murtha, is that you?
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