Every generation has had people who created "muck". For example, during the 50's what genretation were all those commies in the state department from? And before that, how about all those Roosevelt New Dealers?
The Baby Boomers are the first generation to be raised almost entirely on television and its dangerous mixed-message Cronkite consequences. Further, the raise in tax rates forced many families into dual income necessities which increased pressures on women to be everything to everyone. Sure, few baby boomers went hungry as they were stuffed with twinkies and hoho's and now have obesity and heart attacks to contend with rather than rickets and malnutrition. And let's not forget being taught to duck and cover while being raised on 10-12 years of living color war scenes and an impeding draft. Sure this is baby boomer whining but boomers were raised listineing to great depression whiners and the "greatest generation" whiners. Baby boomer parents got to complete a war in only 4 years, were treated as the heroes when they returned and were given hefty vet benefits as their deserved award. Why not have a little consideration for the Boomers who had their own set of challenges, faced by no other generation? My point is that every generation has its challenges (and fools who claim to speak for them). To single out baby boomers as unique in some way, ignores history.
....boomers were raised listineing to great depression whiners and the "greatest generation" whiners.
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Speak for yourself. IMO, my parents' generation worked hard without whining and taught us a lot about what it means to be a good American. The only thing I can fault them on is segregation. Your comments are as obnoxious as those of the poster you are responding to.
And your statement "...raise in tax rates forced many families into dual income necessities which increased pressures on women to be everything to everyone..." is a crock of clinton.
Actually these "Reds" were not a generation, but a group from New York City that had conflicted loyalties and infiltrated the Democrat Party through FDR's New York political machine. Their offspring were the "Red Diaper Babies" of the "60's".