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Yes, the Model T of computers. The Apple II. 1977.

Hardly, It was more like the Duryea. The Model "T" of computers was the Commadore 64. And we actually went on to do something with them while you boomers just used them to play Pong.

"Given the number of airplane companies that went out of business early on, I guess by your logic the Wright Brothers were failures."

They did something that was actually new. Also, when they went out of business, the NASDAQ didn't drop 3000 points and plunge the country into a recession.

Ummm, did you ever hear of the Great Depression

"Again 100 years from now, What do you think future generations are going to think the Baby Boomers legacy is?"

Well it's hard to say, since we're not even close to done yet.

Yes I know, Which is scary. I really look forward to all the new wonderful social programs and health/saftely laws still to come from you guys. I personally can't wait until the "Should Viagra be added to the prescription drug benefit" debates.

As boomers have taken control of our institutions, we have managed (among other things) to avoid inflation

umm. Late 1970's

and gas lines,

For now, How many new gas refineraries and nuclear power plants have been opened since you've taken power?

successfully deregulate numerous industries,

Yeah name one, "Capitalism" is not the 1st word anybody thinks of when they think of boomers

keep unemployment low,

By increasing the size of government at all levels

outlast the Soviet Union (a big plus for the GenXers),

HUH? We outlasted the Soviets too, As well as the WWII and Silent and Ys?

It was because of Reagan not because the Baby Boomers who if many had their way we would have unilaterally disarmed.

establish record rates of home ownership,

Wow! The largest generation had the largest homeownership!! Who would have thunk it.

Then you turned around and increased property taxes to fund your Boomer programs and now you are pushing age restricted housing.

and invent the World Wide Web.

Again if it wasn't for us, You would be just talking to some kid on his 6th floor dorm.

Sorry but in the future, When people think of the baby boomers they will think of the following, Your generational legacy before they think of any of the above

Activist Judges, Junk Science, Tune in, Turn on and drop out, Health/Safety Nazis, RINOS, Destruction of the Nuclear Family, Destruction of the Black Extended family, Frivolous lawsuits, The Constitution as a living document, The Welfare State, The Nanny State, If it feels good do it, Smoking bans in bars and restaurants, The Liberal Media elite, The founding fathers were nothing more than evil slave owners, Sound bites over substance or facts, It’s for the Children, Abortion on demand, NIMBY, The Clintons, Seatbelt laws, Feminism, Tree Huggers, Criminals that have more rights than the victim, Taking time off to find your self, Meathead, Blame America First, Latch key kids, Kids being raised by their grandparents and/or strangers, Disco, Helmet laws for Motorcycles, Helmet laws for freaking Bicycles, Cradle to grave entitlements, War on Fat, Me, Me, ME, 21 year old drinking age, Yuppies, Careers over your children, Limousine Liberals, Keeping up with the Joneses, Hatred of the Military, Time Out discipline, Reporters who think they are not only part of but bigger than the story they are covering, Focus groups, Weekend dads, Single moms, Prisoner rights groups, Prozac, Ritilin, Viagra, ½ our income going for taxes, America owes me, Living past failed dreams through your children, Even though the WWII generation saved the world from fascism and tyranny they are still uneducated simpletons, Cocktail Parties with the likes of Mike Bloomberg, Turning an educational system that once was the best in the world to S!@, The 2nd Amendment doesn't mean the Right to bear arms, Do as I say not as I do, Peacekeepers instead of soldiers, Vietnam syndrome, The weakening of the CIA, Power Couples, Soccer Moms, NPR, Eradication of Dodge Ball, Prescription drug benefit, It's all society's fault type excuses and made up syndromes instead of personal responsibility, and so many more but I will close with.

An Obscene and still growing national debt that WE the future generations will have to pay off.

"Hardly, It was more like the Duryea. The Model "T" of computers was the Commadore 64. And we actually went on to do something with them while you boomers just used them to play Pong."

The Mark-8 would have been the Duryea. Apple IIs were useful and you could fix one yourself, an important characteristic of a model T. In any event, your 64 was designed by boomers, too. While you were "doing something" with it, we were developing the next generation of computers, polishing internet protocols, and building the communication infrastructure to make the Web possible.

"Ummm, did you ever hear of the Great Depression"

Was that our fault, too?

"As boomers have taken control of our institutions, we have managed (among other things) to avoid inflation

umm. Late 1970's "

Get your facts straight. Mortgage rate were 14% in 1982. I was there, OK?

Look, you are all over the place on the rest of it. I will admit I never knew that stay at home soccer moms were evil. What do you want them to do, get jobs and put their careers before their children? No, wait, that makes latch-key kids!
I do want to say that when the web was born, the GenXers were at best midwives in training who happened to catch the baby when it popped out and, strangely enough, now seem to think that they made it.

As you grow up, you will realize, like we did, that you are not quite as smart as you thought you were.

Q, your style or tactic is straight from the democrat play book. I started to read through the litany of social ills for which you blame the "boomers".....

Junk Science....like what, alchemy or maybe diagnosing people with the vapors?

Tune in, Turn on and drop out....Timothy Leary, greatest generation.

Health/Safety Nazis.....Nazis? (a useful dem word) Oh, I get it, those guys who gas whole families and incinerate the remains if they don't wear a seatbelt...those Nazis

Destruction of the Nuclear Family....courtesy of feminism, pioneered by the likes of Germaine Greer, Phyllis Chessler and a half dozen other non-boomer women and a result of reliable reproduction controls aka "the pill", an invention of the GG

Destruction of the Black Extended family....this is likely your most bald-faced lie. The welfare state that created the conditions that led to this problem was, as you well know, installed by Washington in the years before any boomers were old enough to vote.

That's as far as I got. You have more lies in the first three lines of your rant than Michael Moore has in the first halfhour of F911. Your methods and his are the same. You both villify, name call and you both are dishonest.