Posted on 06/04/2004 5:14:01 PM PDT by qam1
Douglas Adams was a Brit, you know. British Baby Boomers are obviously worse even than the American ones, just look at their sad nation. God help Tony Blair.
"As for you, you can spend your time hating folks who don't care enough about it to return the emotion. . . "
I don't hate anyone, and I accept that my benevolent emotions and actions will never be returned by the Baby Boomers.
"Like I pointed out before they (GG)were simply in many cases just naive"
Which is it, were they naive of founts of great wisdom...it can't be both.
"They (GG) never deliberately set out to undermine America and all the values that makes it great".
Roe v. Wade, the welfare state, the immigration disaster, the destruction of industry, the downward drive in mass media/culture etc...all GG gifts to sustaining the character of America. You have no way of divining intention on anyone elses's part.
"I have great parents even though they are boomers but I am the exception to the rule."
"I am the exception"? A bit narcissisistic and, I will state wrong. Your parents raised a whiner who casts himself as victim.
And, btw, what are you doing personally in our current war? Waiting to be drafted?
But there are many times more baby boomers who are living on the "fringe" as you put it stuck back in the 60's than Xers behaving as Snoop Dog.
"Like I pointed out before they (GG)were simply in many cases just naive"
Which is it, were they naive of founts of great wisdom...it can't be both.
This article and myself praise the courage and valor of the GG more than their wisdom, But who says you can't be both. They had to wisdom to rise up to meet the threat of fascism but socially and politically they were naive.
"They (GG) never deliberately set out to undermine America and all the values that makes it great".
Roe v. Wade, the welfare state, the immigration disaster, the destruction of industry, the downward drive in mass media/culture etc...all GG gifts to sustaining the character of America. You have no way of divining intention on anyone elses's part.
OK, We are in agreement about the GG.
However the baby boomers are not only not trying to fix/reverse those things but instead they took them to even further extremes.
Roe v. Wade: The actual decision really has little to do with the obscene number of abortions in the country as abortion was legal in many(most?) places before. It was the baby boomers who made a baby a "Choice" and brought forth the abortion on demand culture.
The welfare state: umm, Who just voted themselves a prescription drug benefit?
Immigration: The baby boomers took that disaster and gave us multiculturism
Destruction of industry: LOL! "Friends of corporate America" is not the phrase anybody thinks of when they think of the Baby Boomers.
That's why the Baby Boomers are the worst generation, They took the worst traits of the GG and took them to even worse extremes while rejecting their best traits like patriotism, sacrifice and family values.
"I have great parents even though they are boomers but I am the exception to the rule."
"I am the exception"? A bit narcissisistic and, I will state wrong.
And many Xs and Ys that suffered through your divorces and/or were latched keyed and came through your educational system will disagree with you.
Your parents raised a whiner who casts himself as victim.
Typical baby boomer self absorption. I'm suppose work to pay off probably a 45 trillion dollar debt by the time you are all gone and pay for you baby boomer's viagra, All the while baby boomer elitist take more and more of my freedoms away and work to undermine my country and all the values that make it great and I'm supposed to be quite and happily go along with it because you baby boomers are just so wonderful and so much smarter than all of us and done so much for this country or else it's called whining?
Sorry but I don't think so.
And, btw, what are you doing personally in our current war? Waiting to be drafted?
Well for one I am not spitting on troops or calling them baby killers.
Secondly I'm 34 years old so they wouldn't take me even if I tried to sign up, But if my country needed me I would go in a heartbeat.
"Any wonder why they call them the “greatest generation?”"
I know: because Tom Brokaw coined the phrase.
Thanks a lot for your positive remarks. I just felt I could use my knowledge of how dire WWII was for this country for most of our involvement in it and place that into a perspective vis a vis the Iraqi situation. I am sick of hearing how this is an endless quagmire in which we can never succeed. This could be another self inflicted defeat like Vietnam. (I am a vet of the SE Asia war games by the way)
Thanks for your gracious comment. I just felt I could use my knowledge of how dire WWII was for this country for most of our involvement in it and place that into a perspective vis a vis the Iraqi situation. I am sick of hearing how this is an endless quagmire in which we can never succeed. This could be another self inflicted defeat like Vietnam. (I am a vet of the SE Asia war games by the way)
Thanks for your gracious comment. I just felt I could use my knowledge of how dire WWII was for this country for most of our involvement in it and place that into a perspective vis a vis the Iraqi situation. I am sick of hearing how this is an endless quagmire in which we can never succeed. This could be another self inflicted defeat like Vietnam. (I am a vet of the SE Asia war games by the way)
Great comments. I just felt I could use my knowledge of how dire WWII was for this country for most of our involvement in it and place that into a perspective vis a vis the Iraqi situation. I am sick of hearing how this is an endless quagmire in which we can never succeed. This could be another self inflicted defeat like Vietnam. (I am a vet of the SE Asia war games by the way)
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