Boomers know how to adjust [might run out of food and water]

Capital Times ^ | 12-8-08 | Barbara Quirk

[SJackson]

Lifespan management, for instance, examines the critical question of how long boomers will remain healthy and productive. Then there is the personal wealth issue with the latest financial crisis, many boomers having seen declines in their net worth.

It is predicted that boomers may face the real possibility of a collapse of living systems in their lifetimes. Food, energy, and materials may well undergo disruptions as climate changes and water crises become realities.

We won't run out of food and water, The One will save us.

And yeah, many in our parents generation didn't have to worry about the dissipation of wealth, nor about long lifespans.

It's tough to be a boomer.

[SkyDancer]

Liberals can’t cope, Conservatives know how.
There was a great movie on YouTube about these two people who were on an escalator that stopped. They stood there hollering for help just like typical Lib’s .... they couldn’t figure out that all they had to do is just walk up the stopped escalator - they wanted someone to walk down to get them ....

[Doogle]

yeah ,but look how much you save on toilet tissue....save trees, blah,blah,blah

[purplelobster]

“forming economic, health, and social collectives and families “

oh boy, I’m going to be in a rest home run by an incontinent che guavera demanding that I share my wheat germ stockpile with the collective.

[Doogle]

authors name...quirk, just a coincidence

[OpusatFR]

Oh please. There are any number of fat, juicy morsels running around the malls.

I figure a couple of hundred a year before anyone notices.

*And as a bonus, the food on the hoof is all liberal! Less democrat voters.

[metmom]

There was a great movie on YouTube about these two people who were on an escalator that stopped. They stood there hollering for help just like typical Lib’s .... they couldn’t figure out that all they had to do is just walk up the stopped escalator - they wanted someone to walk down to get them ....

That sounds like a commercial that was on during the Olympics.

The thing is, many *boomers* remember having to do without, unlike today's pampered kids.

We'll get by because of the skills we learned from our parents.

[penelopesire]

LOL!!

[BobL]

The best analogy that I've seen for the Boomer Generation is like that of a bad meal...you just have to get it through your system to recover.

They have been a wrecking ball throughout our society. From the first days of drugs and sex at colleges, to domination and destruction of education, to our huge national debt, our housing crash, and soon on to permanently wreck Social Security.

Thanks Boomers, you were wonderful to this country.

(yea, yea, some Boomers are good conservatives, but as a generation, they have left nothing in their wake)

[Clintonfatigued]

“authors name”

Look on the bright side. At least it isn’t Marx.

[kms61]

I’ve always taken issue with the 1946-1964 Boomer definition. I was born in ‘61, and have very little in common with those born in the forties and fifties. I was watching Captain Kangaroo during the Summer of Love.

[OCC]

It is predicted that boomers may face the real possibility of a collapse of living systems in their lifetimes. Food, energy, and materials may well undergo disruptions as climate changes and water crises become realities.

Living systems? Perhaps their greed and short sightedness will force them back to the communes they once idolized?

[SJackson]

I’ve always taken issue with the 1946-1964 Boomer definition. I was born in ‘61, and have very little in common with those born in the forties and fifties. I was watching Captain Kangaroo during the Summer of Love.

Yeah, but you probably loved the Captain.

[knarf]

"These risks are not isolated but are interrelated, forming part of an 'ecology of risk.' Fortunately, boomers have amassed personal, social, experiential, economic and even spiritual assets that they can call on as they age. They will use these assets to craft distinctive ecologies of resources to respond to highly individual ecologies of risk."

Damn!, I like that.

[SJackson]

They have been a wrecking ball throughout our society. From the first days of drugs and sex at colleges, to domination and destruction of education, to our huge national debt, our housing crash, and soon on to permanently wreck Social Security.

It's all Dr. Spocks fault, he's from the greatest generation.

[absalom01]

Learned a new term the other day: Generation Jones. 1954-1964, distinguishing us from the true boomers of a decade earlier.

[expatpat]

they have left nothing in their wake

Oh, you can't say that. There's AIDS and herpes, gay exhibitionism, feminaziism, just for starters.

[SJackson]

distinctive ecologies of resources to respond to highly individual ecologies of risk...Damn!, I like that.

I do too. Substitute economies for ecologies, that's how the economy got where it is.

[Radix]

"...and soon on to permanently wreck Social Security."

Boomers should not be blamed for the failure and abuse of the ill conceived Social Security program.

Mom & Dad (if anyone alive does) deserve the future ire for that looming catastrophe.

[Star Traveler]

You said — “Thanks Boomers, you were wonderful to this country.”

Ummmm..., well you forgot that we’re the ones that gave rise to the subsequent generations, too..., you young whipper-snapper. Give some respect to your elders... LOL...