[jwalsh07]

Baby Boomers: they grew up little Marxists in the 60’s thinking the world owes them everything because mommy and daddy handed them everything.

Tell that to the 58,000+ guys on the Vietnam War Memorial. They died fighting marxists.

[BeAllYouCanBe]

What hasn’t been mentioned so far is that I a baby-boomer born 1947 (currently 63 for those in Rio Linda) and spent 2 years in the 60’s in Vietnam part of the 5 million who served there had many expectations that didn’t happen.

We expected when we got jobs there would be a pension plan to supplement social security and expected to spend 35-40 years with the same company. That was how America worked back then. I didn’t have a 401k until 1995 and expected to have a retirement from my company that laid me off. After 15 years of contributing to a 401k post 1995 I am well under what I will need to retire at age 66 only two years from now and don’t have glorious expectations of retirement.

I also lost my home equity twice so I have some but I would say that if I could have paid my house off 20 years ago I wouldn’t be in this condition today.

My wife is 60 and has been chronically ill for 5 years now and I is incapable of working. The expectation is that you will maintain your health but the rule of life is someday that will go and you never know when.

[Tzimisce]

Tell that to the 58,000+ guys on the Vietnam War Memorial. They died fighting marxists.

...I fail to see what Nam has to do with the Marxist takeover in 2011.

But maybe you're right, maybe if they fought the Marxists at home first we wouldn't be where we are now.