DON KOHLBAUER / Union-Tribune
At 82, Walter Spain still reports to work several times a week at Home Depot in Carmel Mountain Ranch.
Spain thinks employers tend to take a dim view of older workers, overlooking their value.
At 82, Walter Spain still reports to work several times a week at Home Depot in Carmel Mountain Ranch.
Spain thinks employers tend to take a dim view of older workers, overlooking their value.
"Baby boomer exodus - As millions retire, their skills and knowledge will be gone, too ,"
...and one can only their politics, their control of education, and their control of the MSM follows them to the grave.
Not enough jobs! No, wait, too many jobs and not enough people to fill them! The earth is getting colder. No, wait, it's getting hotter! We are running out of food. No, wait, we have too much food and now everybody's getting too fat! We are using too much fuel and we are polluting our environment! No, wait, we don't have enough oil and now the prices are going up! Drinking too much coffee is bad for you. No wait, drinking coffee is good for you! But wait, now it's bad for you again...
Sounds like Sandra Timmerman is a baby boomer.
It's not nice to curse an entire generation, but this one has had more than its share of dropouts, drug addicts, spaced-out idiots, aquarians, clintonoids, and perpetual adolescents. That's not directed toward the many folks of that generation who have lived good lives and carried their share of the load.
Woodstock, fairwell!
Government will merely seize the retirees in an eminent domain brainstorm and force them back to work!
Gee, I thought the new crop of gruaduates was brilliant!
What happened?
Why the concern of NO BRAINS after boomers retire?
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Yeah, the new ones are dumber than you know what!!!
I see this being a problem only if the Federal Reserve or some other government agency tries to interfere with the market. Seeing how they are doing studies, I'm pretty sure they will.
Since it all runs downhill, whatever happens to the "boomers", happens to us by default. We'll be lumped in with them from here on out.
An article that starts this stupidly can't possibly have anything of worth to it.
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Good, why doesn't this generation of communist pass away already. Most selfish, hateful, anti American generation of all time.
Of course there are some conservative heroes, but by in large...
It's going to be the largest transfer of wealth the nation has ever seen as many boomers take their retirement $$ out of the hands of their employers managers and handle it themselves.
Wall Street differs on how this will affect the market with most seeming to come down on the side the market will be affected relatively little since the retirements will be happening over a period of approx. 10+ years.
I don't mean to brag, but, I have forgotten more than most youngsters will ever know about car motors, tractors, lawn mowers,heat exchangers, tube radios, generators, guns, women, boats and booze. I have had a good life!
I love being a boomer!
Xer's and Gen Y and Gen Next can blame us for a lot. It's always a comfort to have people to blame when things go wrong but we lived in probably the most interesting times since the nation got through it's birth pangs. It wasn't always clear what the options and choices and demands we faced meant. We did a pretty good job, all considered. The economy is a great deal more powerful than it was in 1945. People have many more choices about many more things. That's both good and bad for some but I see it as an expansion of freedom. We've lost some freedoms too and that's a sore point with many of us. All in all, I've had a ball
82!? And they use him as a boomer?
I take pains to tell people I am not a boomer.
Actually, the problem is the reverse.
If you read the newspapers, they're throwing out waves of boomers and pre-boomers while there is no young voice. They have an unlimited supply of Helen Thomases, Dan Rathers, even Walter Cronkites, Jimmy Carters, Jesse Jacksons, Larry Kings, etc., while there are no young fresh voices. It's as though they're trying to preserve the consciousness of the '60s as the perpetual culture.
The whole bias is still towards seniority -- and the exploitation of the young. That's what this smokescreen is about. The entrenched status quo is using the dispossessed to remain at the top. They could care less about the people out of the loop.
This story is all ablut history.
Fpr every person who has retired, a less experienced person has taken his place. It isn't a "baby boomer" thing.
Doesn't matter...twenty-somethings know everything already anyway.
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