Ping!
As the new senior citizens, the boomers will be the biggest voting block.
Cut the funding for ALL illegals and you will most likely have plenty of money. We owe the illegals nothing. If we keep supporting them, we may as well support all of Mexico. Is this what we want?
Of course many people do not fit the stereotype, but the Boomer stereotype is a very self-centered person who only cares about instant gratification. The USA went down a bad road when that approach to life became acceptable.
Maybe I'll go squander most of it at the local Injun casino....
One more stupid essay lumping every Boomer into the same box as if we all shared the same beliefs and are all responsible for the fools in our generation.
About the only things we did share were the music we heard and the world events we saw occur as we grew up. Which is pretty much the same for any age cohort.
The biggest problem, as far as I am concerned, is the whole values divide. He says it’s left and right, but I don’t see it that way. I see it as the secular or the left. I think the secular views of many (including the right) are just as rotten. I see it right here on FR all the time. So many people are consumed with their own needs, wants, and are obsessed with their “rights,” yet there is no wisdom or common sense. Sure, you have the freedom to watch porn, but at what cost to society as a whole? Sure, you have the right to be a greedy trader on Wall Street, but again, at what cost? The Left has infiltrated academia.
In the old days, there were common standards of decency, obligation, and responsibility. Men didn’t leave pregnant women in large numbers as they would have been viewed in a harsh light - not so today. I just heard that PA is going to revamp their laws about reporting child abuse to make them stricter (all of this in light of the Sandusky/Penn State scandal). More and more laws to control every ounce of a person’s life all because nobody wants to follow the old tried and true BIG TEN or to admit that the seven deadly sins really ARE deadly.
Just had to rant. Meanwhile, as a Boomer who has been swimming against the tide of secular humanism and leftist claptrap, I can’t WAIT to see what this Day fellow and HIS generation come up with...(hmmm: euthanasia, etc.)
Neither Paterno or Sandusky was a Boomer.
I know, a generation is made up of individuals, but quite frankly someone has to say “Enough!”
Looks like it will be mine. Tax me, work me to death if you must, but if you try to pass this on to my children, God help you. I will not sacrifice my children's future for you.
The Boomer generation is a faithless one, they embraced the rejection of Christ and filled this society with the false hope of the government will fix all. They embraced socialism and made it their God. They embraced the killing of babies, free love, drugs and drunkenness, and all manner of greed. They hated the innocence of the fifties, and mock it to this day. They rejected any moral compass, but their own.
The rejection of Christianity will not be easy to recover from.
I hope I die exhausted from the work and the fun while trying to catch my breath.
It was mostly the young people of this nation who elected Obama and the Democratic Congress. You fell for the “Hope and Change” which in reality was nothing but “Hype and Lies.” You have tasted socialism and seen evil face to face, and have found you don’t like it after all. You make a lot of noise, but most are all too interested in their careers or “Climbing the Social Ladder” to be involved in such mundane things as patriotism and voting. Many of those who fell for the “Great Lie” in 2008 are now having buyer’s remorse. With all the education we gave you, you didn’t have sense enough to see through the lies and instead drank the ‘Cool-Aid.’ Now you’re paying the price and complaining about it. No jobs, lost mortgages, higher taxes, and less freedom. This is what you voted for and this is what you got. We entrusted you with the Torch of Liberty and you traded it for a paycheck and a fancy house.
Any generation that can produce a triple knit lime green leisure suit (with bell bottom pants for bell bottoms) has to be respected, even more so if the white patent leather shoes are worn with it.
So watch your comments folks or we check the back of your closet for bump toe shoes!
It wasn't the boomers that gave us FDR, LBJ. Most boomers did not vote for George McGovern. Most boomers did not vote in 1972. Anyone born in 1955 or later did not vote. The youngest boomers could not even vote for Reagan the first time he ran.
The boomers parents bought new homes for about 4k -- That was the total price for the home!! Nowadays boomers are nearly paying that much every month or two just for a mortgage payment..
That new home the boomers parents bought for about 4k? It was purchased on **ONE** income...
The boomers parents pulled into the gas station and said, "Gimme a bucks worth of regular"....lol
The boomers parents were able to have mom stay home and raise the kids...
The boomers parents have steady secure jobs, which lasted 20 or 30 years...At the SAME job.
The boomers parents for the most part had affordable healthcare and it wasn't even an issue.
Meanwhile, our grandchildren are at risk of falling for the same swindles as our grandparents might have.
Thanks for posting. Mead nails all the trash of my generation quite accurately.