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I'm quite certain that all the hackles that get raised on ‘Baby Boomer B*st*rds’ threads are justified if we talk about the lives of the individuals here on FR that are PO’d. However, the cohort criticisms about our g-g-generation are largely valid. If you don't think so, whaddya think you're getting socialized medicine for - WWII’rs? Nope, it's our g-g-generation that hasn't prepared for itself (writ large here) even though you and I might have set aside something or planned a little ahead of our grasshopper cohort.

In fact, while you and I may have been going to school (in a real track with purpose) and working, saving and building a future for your marriage and family, millions more of our g-g-generation were following the rainbow and finding themselves (their impulses mainly). Now that our g-g-generation has found itself in a jam, we're going to be on the hook along with everyone else that earns a dime or isn't on the dole.

I won't even go into the culture wars but as far as guilt for everything that has changed, there's certainly plenty to go around. But facts is facts and our g-g-generation has porked it up in the pipeline at every step of the way pleasuring themselves while trashing Judeo-Christian values and our nation values, laws and traditions. No, you're likely not included if you're here FR, can think rationally, read beyond grade school level and have enough money to pay your net/electric bills, but you know plenty of people who aren't and can't - and they sure as heck outnumber you and your family and friends. In fact, they're friends of our duly elected national leader . . .

Let us hope and pray that we don't run over the edge (and work like demons to that end) but if we do, the soundtrack will be strictly from our g-g-generation.

Nope, it's our g-g-generation that hasn't prepared for itself (writ large here) even though you and I might have set aside something or planned a little ahead of our grasshopper cohort.

I will agree with some of what you write but you must remember the "Greatest Generation" planned their retirements on our, and our grandchidren's, backs. Social Security is just one of their schemes. The rest are the now underfunded gold plated retirement packages they negociated through their unions that we are now bailing out through all the "stimulus" packages being rammed through Congress.

It was not hard to have such a great economy after you just finished blowing up all the other industrialized nations on the planet (WWII).

Their hubris was thinking that they could do what they did and think it would last forever, based on an ever increasing population and not taking to account certain nations would rebuild themselves and become players in the world industrial market.

We were complicit in that we allowed the uneducated leftists to not only set the Nation's political agenda but allowed those same uneducated idiots to takeover our entire education structure from Kindergarten through college, thus creating untold millions of airheads who think Government payouts are not only the norm but the proper way to do business and save for retirement.