Ping!
I thought the baby boom was 46 to 64. Matter of definition, obviously.
What total, self-serving, unmitigated, whiney, HORSESHIT!
>The upside is that some of the old stifling prohibitions and prejudices have gone, hopefully for ever.
Those unnamed prejudices stifled what exactly?
Fantasy.
The guy is an idiot, the boomer generation is those people born from 1946 to 1964.
We make up a good percentage of tea partiers too.
Ya know? Boomers have paid more into the system and have received less than any generation.
I dont understand why everyone hates my generation.
You gotta see this one,
But I think western society went through a long rough patch in the 20th century. WWI was really devastating, and although the 1920's were a bit of fun, the Depression in the 1930's, and WWII were horrific times. Afterwords, the older people were very happy to settle down into dullness and some meager level of material enjoyment. And who could blame them?
But too many of the young people understood nothing of what had gone before. They wanted freedom. They wanted to escape any sense of responsibility. Let's live it up! That world the older folks think is just fine is really all wrong -- let's start making changes!
It's not like dark days will ever come back again, eh? I said -- it's not like the dark days will come back; right?
Right?
♫J..jj..Just because we are around♪♪
Having enjoyed a life of free love,
Hmmm, it was my "Greatest Generation" (as definied by an avowed socialist) parents who bought into Kinsey and got divorced by 1960...
free school meals, free universities,
Seems to me I had to borrow and pay. Did they? Not a dime. Hell, they even got to deduct their credit card interest!
defined benefit pensions,
Wanna bet? My "Greatest Generation" parents got those. Not me. But my wife and I sure as hell paid $20K a year in Social Security and MediCare benefits to my "Greatest Generation" parents.
mainly full employment
Not hardly. Remember the Carter bust right after they graduated? How about Bush I's wondrous recession?
and a 40-year-long housing boom,
Of which the "Greatest Generation" were more beneficiaries than we. Oh, and who was it who was screaming about killing Social Security when Bush II tried to privatize it? It sure as hell wasn't boomers.
they are bequeathing their children sky-high house prices,
Seems to me those prices crashed fairly recently and are pretty low right now, just when we were ready to pay it off and after paying at historically high interest rates for decades until recently. I remember paying 13% for my construction loan, plus six points. Did the "Greatest Generation" have to do that?
debts and shrivelled pensions.
Yeah, look whose pension is shriveled now. We probably have a better chance of having our 401-k confiscated than realizing a benefit.
The "Greatest Generation" had their chance to fix this mess during the Eisenhower administration and jail those Roosevelt commies for good. They didn't do it. Instead they allowed the Cultural Marxists to educate their children and we've all paid the price.
Hey, I was born in 1945 and I missed all that. Went to war during the "free love" phase, don't believe in free lunches, missed out on the free universities, worked all my life (mostly self-employed) and got no pension to show for it. Will work until I die.
A major problem with article is that it neglect to take into acount that much of the damage was done by Hoover, FDR, and Carter. Not many of the Baby Boomers were old enough to have done anything about that.
Most of todays problems with economy stem from Carter years when the home financing problem actually began. And don’t forget that Obama himself was involved in pressing the banks to make risky loans to low income people.
I’m 53 and life is good. Retired from the federal government earlier this year, got a new private-sector career. I don’t know if Social Security or Medicare will be around in their current forms when I reach eligibility age, but I won’t need them — already executed plans for alternatives.
No, no, no, no, and only if I made it happen.
There has been no 40 year housing boom for me, and as for the rest, I noticed the real climb in prices started in the Carter years, for everything from autos to oil to cigarettes and even beer. I remember nickel hershey bars and dime cokes in glass bottles, three-for-a-penny candy, $2000.00 new cars, and nice $20,000.00 houses.
Kindly tell me who were the idiots who paid more? Every new generation has been accompanied by a jump in the price of all of that, but that's because the money has become more worthless.
Everyone born before Obama’s path to POTUS are evil, selfish, bigoted scoundrels. Ask him or any of his friends.