Posted on 06/04/2013 6:09:19 AM PDT by Biggirl
Last spring, Frank Turkaly tried to kill himself. A retiree in a Pittsburgh suburb living on disability checks, he was estranged from friends and family, mired in credit card debt and taking medication for depression, cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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Everything you say is true. I remember my parents and other parents would buy cars that all their kids wouldn’t even fit in, because they liked them. My dad had a new Firebird, and with 4 kids, we had to lap it. That was our only car. My wife’s mom drove a Camaro, and her dad drove a pick-up. They had 3 kids at the time.
My parents aren’t bad people. They were selfish because that was the zeitgeist. We have it worse as far as that goes, but have the opportunity to do better.
Again, look at young would-be adults today: they are far more emotionally connected to their Boomer parents than Boomers were to their parents.
Oh, baloney! My husband and I are boomers and have been paying into the system for 45 years. We won’t get anything like that back when we retire...at about 80 years of age.
Of course.
Or they took care of there children when they were children, and the “children” have moved back in with them because the “children” can’t find work in the 0bamanation.
In the interest of fairness:
“- Moved all our manufacturing overseas. Companies their parents helped build” this was done by the “Greatest Generation” and/or the Generation prior.
“- Ran our country into a debt we can never repay.” AGAIN this was done by the “Greatest Generation”
and/or the Generation prior(LBJ, FDR, Wilson).
“- Made social security into the biggest ponzi scheme ever.”
AGAIN this was done by the “Greatest Generation(LBJ)”
“- You coined the term “latchkey kid” because you picked money and recreation over family.” THIS you CAN TAG onto the “Baby Boomers(Although ALOT of City/Suburban WW II “Greatest Generation” are JUST as guilty of this as well) “
You’re wrong. A dynamic relationship with Jesus will overcome anything. There will be dark times, but Christ’s provision and comfort is supernatural and absolute for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.
The Boomers are the first largest demographic group in America’s history. Their conribution to funding the federal government is unprecedented. They are responsible for bringing about the civil rights movement and social justice changes that were a good thing. The corruption of DC politics is what bankrupted our country and no, Ted Kennedy, Frank, and Dodd are NOT baby boomers. Quit your whining and don’t count us out yet. Boomers will bring about the needed changes for the elderly. That’s why we’re here.
It is just that they squandered their savings...a lot of folks I know simple lost their wealth and a lot of it in 2008, then lost jobs, then lost, lost, lost. Because the significant portion of the generation didn’t learn to be more than one thing, have more than one career/passion, learn to succeed...and fail.
I thought it was just military young people.
My husband - a boomer - has also found that young employees (let’s say late 20s) are amazingly uppity - writing memos to the head of the company, demanding people they don’t like to be fired, and hacking into other employees’ email accounts. They also cannot write letters! He’s fed up with them.
If Jesus Christ Himself could ask, “My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?”, I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to realize Christians can and do suffer so much despair at times that their connection to God can fail.
It’s not that God fails us. It’s that we fail Him and ourselves. That is reality. That is the human condition.
I am an older guy....it gets to me, that my grandchildren, are reinventing the wheel...when they could avail themselves of my advice and experience....but no, they know everything....then I think; was I like that at their age....maybe I was...lol lol...oh well, it is great morning, and I am off to coffee...let the world take a couple of turns...
I’ve known some early retires who took their retirement funds in a cash payout. They then had to pay taxes on it, then went on a spending spree and are now dead broke.
Since they are not old enough for social security they are having to work at what jobs they can find.
So you had lousy parents because your car was too small?? Not to sound like the 4 Yorkshiremen but I can remember when we had no car, walked through miles of snow to school or took the broken down ole school bus.
I am currently looking to hire a mid and senior developer. The resumes I have gotten are atrocious. Misspelling, bad grammar, and no punctuation. Seriously they read like a text message. Everyone of them is from a 30 or younger person with a laundry list of skill attributes and an average of 2-3 jobs in 2-3 years. Most of their claimed skill set is open source crap.
The two I have gotten from someone over 40-45 were well written, have a more reasonable limited (truthful) skill set and they have only had 1-3 jobs in 10-15 years.
Yes, but some of us will not live to see it. There is nothing so fearsome as running out of time to finish.
And sense the human condition is constant failure, God comes along and picks us up without any effort being made on our part. One caveat is we have to be His children.
Phl 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Gosh, I’d hate to be an employer today dealing with these undereducated brats. Good luck to you and your search!
I think you missed his point. It was that his parents could afford a newer/nicer car and his parents picked a car that wasn’t a good fit for a “family”. If you pick a TransAm/Camaro over a station wagon/van etc. with three or four kids, then I’d say that’s a pretty selfish choice.
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