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Baby Boomers: they grew up little Marxists in the 60’s thinking the world owes them everything because mommy and daddy handed them everything.
So now they’re going to tax their kids to make up the shortfall of their Socialist theories.

Don’t worry: most will vote Obama the next election.

You are right about most baby boomers, as well as for the vast majority of baby boomer opinion leaders. Some Freepers who responded to you seem to be engaging in selective amnesia. For example, it is the baby boomer teachers and professors who have been successfully stuffing a socialist mindset done the throats of the young for a generation now. For all our sakes, I wish that they could afford "30 and out".

"baby boomer teachers and professors who have been successfully stuffing a socialist mindset done the throats of the young for a generation now"

Just to set the record straight there were socialists teaching in universities when I was in college and that would make them WWII "the greatest generation" age in the early 1970's. My father-in-law was an infantry man in WWII and is a pretty far out liberal and got his indoctrination in the late 1940's going to school on the GI Bill. He served for FDR and Truman but hated Eisenhower. I believe that the assault on higher education has been going on since the 1930's.

Just read that Lincoln read Marx and thought it was a good plan. So socialism isn't new to baby boomers.

http://www.marxists.org/history/international/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm

http://turtledove.wikia.com/wiki/Karl_Marx

Karl Marx was greatly admired by former United States President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln did not agree with Marx's belief in violent revolution, however, and steered the Socialist Party of the United States towards change through the ballot, rather than the bullet.

In the Confederate States, however, the Negro revolutionaries embraced a purer form of communism, staging a revolt during the early years of the Great War. While various socialist republics were created, the uprising was crushed by the C.S. in short order.

You are right about most baby boomers, as well as for the vast majority of baby boomer opinion leaders. Some Freepers who responded to you seem to be engaging in selective amnesia. For example, it is the baby boomer teachers and professors who have been successfully stuffing a socialist mindset done the throats of the young for a generation now. For all our sakes, I wish that they could afford "30 and out".

I'm tired of RINOs.

I'm tired of the "lets all get along" crowd.

The Teacher strike in Wisconsin? That didn't pop up in the past week - it's been going on for decades.

Voter apathy. Let's just along politics. Going along with the left - after years of this philosophy, it's KILLING us. Someone is going to have to pick up the tab for all of this. And it's going to be the younger generation.

Something in this system is going to give. It's not a game anymore - it's too serious. Someone, somewhere is going to have to pick up the tab for the all spending shoved down their throat and even though they're paying for it, they will get nothing for all the money they're putting in.

It's sad and scary.

And the sense I get is: too many people don't care. As long as they get theirs, they just ...don't care.

And you see it reflected all over the place: the Teacher Union in Wisconsin. The Obamas on vacation after telling the rest of us to give ours up. The talking heads at the New York Times. Code Pink globe trotting when the rest of us are worried about food. Even jobs - the attitude is reflected if you're lucky enough to be out job hunting.

In the 70's Boomers were called "The Me Generation" - and that is a very fitting title. One that I don't think they ever (as a generation) shed.

And now you see it reflected in 2011 politics.

This whole situation just sucks.

Once again, blaming it all on the Boomers is quite wrong. Obama did get support from some boomers, but more kids and a goodly number of seniors.

It wasn't just the baby boomer teachers, but almost all teachers. One recent report had a 900-1 left-right ratio at a CA university.

Cloward and Piven were born in 1926 and 1932, they are not boomers. John Dewey was born in 1859. The marxist 5th column started a long time ago, has grown over the years, and blaming it on boomers misses the source altogether.

Picking the wrong target means failure.