This while the Greatest Generation scrimped and saved. |
Not for long....all the police in the world won't be able to compel Muslims and Jamaicans in London to prop up the pensions of self righteous Boomers. There will be no taxes flowing from subsistence level workers....just anger.
And the same is true here: if they really think that Mestizo gardeners and janitors are going to "save Social Security", that's just beneath laughable.
This while the Greatest Generation scrimped and saved. |
From what I saw.. Baby Boomers spoiled their own kids 10 times what they were spoiled themselves.. Especially in the 80’s
I'm ashamed to admit that I'm a boomer.I'm also ashamed to admit that my generation is,all things considered,a disgrace to this country and to themselves (although many don't care).I,for example,consider myself to be one of the better boomers (above the median) but I'm not half the person that either of my parents or any of my aunts and uncles were.
The population explosion at the end of WWII and the welcome sense of *peace at last* - pushed demand and supply consumerism with dynamic rebuilding, innovation and a giddy sense of optimism.
At around the mid-fifties - the huge boomer bulge of adolescence became a marketing dream for entertainment and other consumer enterprises.
By the end of the 50’s, television had seduced an affluent generation away from parents, churches, libraries and other family activities. Adolescents were exposed to James Dean and Brando and rebelled with gusto.
This self-indulgent trend has gotten progressively worse, more coarse and hedonistic, as has happened throughout history - until catastrophic deprivation returns in the form of famine, drought, pandemics, civil unrest or until an invading army changes the status quo.
In the 21st century there are many catastrophic natural disasters that we can avoid or overcome - but we cannot overcome surrender to tyranny.
I'm 62, and I agree with you--because I was too much a part of all that was wrong with my generation. We hate to admit what we did, but subsequent generations are going to have to pay the price for it. In fact, that has already started, as every child of a boomer-divorce or "failed relationship" can tell you.
Of course you are. Which means you didn't live in the bb times and consequently have no clue about those times. By the way, my wife is a boomer who grew up in England. Try telling her about her luxurious childhood (which she didn't have). Her father had the only car in her neighborhood. It was such a luxurious car, as a child my wife had the honor of holding the bucket the rain fell through to keep the car from being flooded. Her dad made her toys since they were too poor to buy her. The writer of this article is full of bovine manure as are the writers who write about how they think average American bommers grew up. Find a subject you know something about.
You don't know your American history, the worst of the left's gains, slowed or were stopped by the boomers when they arrived to power in the late 80s and early to mid 90s, and you can thank the boomers for your gun rights.
By the way, look at the worst actions and gains by the left in American history and then realize that they took place from the 1930s to the 1970s and look at gun legislation during that same period. Then recognize that the 1984 election was the first time that the entire boomer generation got to vote in a presidential election. That is also the time when they first started gradually moving into the congress and judge ships and management and positions of power.
As bad as things are, look at America in the 1930s to the late 1970s before boomers had any power or influence. For most of us when we look at the deepest most earth shattering destructive changes that happened to America, like the legislation and court decisions of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, we realize that those are the decades which doomed us.
I am a Gen Xer too but the article blames the wrong people. The decline of England began right at the end of World War II when the people elected socialists who nationalized much of the country and started to change their values.
One thing that worries me about conservatives is that too many want to return to the pre 1960’s era without realizing that the cancer was already present and growing then. Within thirty years if we reset the clock to 1957 we would have all the problems again.
Yep, it was Boomers on the Supreme Court in 1973, when they were 19 years old, who decided Roe v Wade. It was teenaged Boomers in the state legislatures who passed no-fault divorce laws. It was Boomers not even in the womb yet who passed the Ponzi scheme we call Social Security. They followed that up with AFDC and Medicare while still in grammar school.