Here is an interesting Gallup chart, regarding support for the Vietnam war, and age groups.
Posted on 08/22/2010 1:07:34 PM PDT by Publius804
The baby boomers. Born between 1945 and 1955, they are busy ignoring the biblical calculus that a man's span is three score years and 10. Having enjoyed a life of free love, free school meals, free universities, defined benefit pensions, mainly full employment and a 40-year-long housing boom, they are bequeathing their children sky-high house prices, debts and shrivelled pensions. A 60-year-old in 2010 is a very privileged and lucky human being – an object of resentment as much as admiration.
I'm at the heart of all of it – guilty as charged. Born 21 May 1950, I'm the quintessential baby boomer. And for the last three months, while most of the rest of the world has been getting on with their lives, I've been wrestling with the implications of my new seniority. Sixty may or may not be the new 50, but it is a significant milestone; I've been on the planet for an awfully long time. What sense can I make of the decades I have lived through? To what extent am I and my generation unfairly lucky? What is the best way to live my life from now on?
To a degree I have some sympathy with the resentment, marshalled in a cluster of recent anti-boomer books. Individually, we may not have been the authors of today's flux, uncertainty and lack of social and cultural anchors, but we were at the scene of the crime. The cultural, economic and institutional cornerstones of British life have been shattered – and the way our love of fun was channelled is undoubtedly part of the story. The upside is that some of the old stifling prohibitions and prejudices have gone, hopefully for ever.
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LOL Hit me with your best shot !!! A good debate is always fun. I look forward to spirited debates in the future.
The Boomer generation split into red and blue factions over the Vietnam War and many other things. Which is why the split continues. The blues dominate academia because they followed in the footsteps of the radicals who already controlled education when education began its vast post-war expansion.
That generation jones stuff was created in 1991, and would make the boomer generation an 8 year generation.
It is not in use as the formal description of the boomer generation.
The real problem is that people do not understand G-d's Tenth Commandment, as to why a simple thought could be a crime so significant as to be on His "Top Ten" list in the place of second highest emphasis. Covetous breeds the desire to erect collective institutions capable of securing private property, institutions capable of enslaving us all. His Law is the essence of Liberty. It's just too bad that organized religion has done such a pi$$ poor job of teaching it.
And (I might add) I wouldn't want it any other way.
Yep, and I hope that's a long time yet.
Oh I would chill if you had used a SARC tag. If that is what you meant, use one.
Why? Because later on in the threat, someone actually agreed with you and they did not seem to be kidding. No sarc tags either. Careful what you write, for there are those that have very extreme positions.
Nothing makes me madder than being stereotyped and blamed for crap that I did not create. I will chill in 2010 when order and justice is restored.
Here is an interesting Gallup chart, regarding support for the Vietnam war, and age groups.
The only up shot about the Gen Xers attitude toward the boomers is that they are going to be screwed even harder.
But remember this Gen X. We are fighting even now to save you from this burdensome debt.
Absolutely!
When the once-optional middle-class second income became commonplace, there was sufficient inflation to deepen the poverty of the indigent and push for the plethora of social programs we are stuck with now, and drive prices up for the remainder.
That was just the economic aspect, but that drove more families to either make concessions in their lifestyle or to have mom go to work.
Which left the kids to be raised by the State, school, etc., daycare (State approved), and lessened the quality time parents had for their children. That broke cultural continuity for a vast number of people.
Mom already had a job, one more important than any other.
The guy is an idiot, the boomer generation is those people born from 1946 to 1964.
All these "generations" are inventions of the human mind. There is no "correct" definition but some definitions make far more sense than others.
When you think about it, a "generation" should group together individuals with a similar experience based upon their era of birth.
A time span lasting from 1946 to 1964 is far too long for a single "generation". For example:
The year is 1967. What does 21 year old John, a combat infantryman in Vietnam, have in common with 3 year old Timmy, two years out of toilet traning?
In 2010, how will John and Timmy remember "The Sixties"?
Sometimes, the generation born between 1954 and 1965 is referred to as Generation Jones
Despite a decisive military victory for our side, the event was portrayed as evidence we were being defeated.
It would be like casting the 'Battle of the Bulge' as a defeat because the Axis had advanced the salient.
I was in the middle group. As I recall, a lot of older guys, including WWII veterans, opposed it because it dragged on. Get in or get out was a common phrase. Another Korean stalemate developing.
Hah hah not so fast - Rasmussen recognizes Jones as distinct and the voting block was largely responsible for electing Bush 2nd term.
Key characteristics: less optimistic, distrust of government, general cynicism.
Get ready to be on the receiving end of flames pointed toward your decisions made at an early age!
I’m in a similar situation and catch heat for my decisions made at 23 yo.
Enjoy your retirement.
Well, we didn’t have an Ernie Pyle in 1968. He was at Omaha Beach and threw up just like everyone else. But General Bradley “persuaded” him NOT to show the world that mess. He saw that the other beachheads had gone pretty well. So he went along. The Americans there happened to run into a German buzz saw called the 362. Good thing Rommel couldn’t get more such units there.
>> The baby boomers. Born between 1945 and 1955,
COOL! I’m off the hook.
>> The guy is an idiot, the boomer generation is those people born from 1946 to 1964.
RATS! I’m back on the hook. :-)
Read my Tagline. 100+ sweep of the Congress.
But, sadly that will NOT change things. It will not REPEAL ObamaCare. It will not END government bailouts. It will not declare WAR on Islam. It will tap the breaks of this runaway train with no deadman's switch, twice... maybe... and then OFF the cliff we go to our doom. But I will get some smug satisfaction watching the TV pundits try and explain away the results Nov 2.
If you want to start making up names and divisions then “boomer” needs to disappear from language altogether.
We also need to erase decades of data, and shaped public opinion that had all been based on the official definition of boomer.
When the GAO for instance does a study like this they use the official government definition for boomers.
“United States Government Accountability Office GAO Report to Congressional Committees”
July 2006 BABY BOOM GENERATION Retirement of Baby Boomers Is Unlikely to Precipitate Dramatic Decline in Market Returns, but Broader Risks Threaten Retirement Security Highlights of GAO-06-718, a report to congressional committees
“Why GAO Did This Study
The first wave of baby boomers(born between 1946 and 1964) will become eligible for Social Securityearly retirement benefits in 2008. Inaddition to concerns about how the boomers’ retirement will strain the nation’s retirement and healthsystems, concerns also have been raised about the possibility for boomers to sell off large amounts of financial assets in retirement,”
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06718.pdf
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