Posted on 02/07/2016 7:54:04 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
But you don’t despise idiotic arguments like this one.
The elderly social net was vigorously defended by pre-boomers for decades, and now post-Boomers vote far more liberally than Boomers do.
Meanwhile, Boomers were out supporting themselves pretty much after high school—and certainly weren’t given a free ride on their parents’ employers’ backs for healthcare until they were 26.
Like all generations Boomers aren’t perfect. But had Millennials followed the voting lead of their parents in 2008 and 2012, the country would be much better off today—and the Millennials themselves would have been in a position to generate the prosperity with their own two hands that they apparently need to have done to not become such whining leeches.
(So how do you like the opposing generalizations?)
Stopped reading there.
One of the other reasons the national debt is so high is that your generation is defaulting on a trillion dollars worth of student loans. You lazy slackers refuse to earn STEM degrees and opt instead to get nonsense degrees. When you can’t get a job because you don’t actually know anything you default on those student loans.
The debt problem was created by Liberal Democrats, plain and simple! Whether they are bommers, gen”x”ers or whatever. The liberals got us into the mess we are in by spending like there is no tomorrow creating entitlements and government programs that buy them votes to keep them in control. To blanket blame boomers for all the problems is ridiculous!
The socialist generation will be worse.
Considering that 35% of you lazy idiots still live with your baby-boomer parents, it seems you are the most ungrateful and useless generations. You don’t produce, you consume. At least your parents produced at your age. They had educations and skill and, therefore, jobs. You bums just sit around blabbing your big mouths about things you know nothing about. So, if your parents are taking out that credit you claim to despise, it is mainly to support you childish slobs.
I’m a baby boomer and remember my parents getting cheap health insurance and collecting social security for close on 40 years. Let’s not even mention Medicare which my mother - a hypochondriac - abused for the same amount of time. She got MRIs the way John Boehner used a tanning bed.
There are frugal people in every generation as there are greedy people.
No offense and nothing personal, but I despise you, DA...
I, among many others in here, proudly served our country in Vietnam...Have you served in the military?
Do you accept all the benefits that your parents and the “baby boomers” as you call us, worked for to create a better place for you?
You must be a product of today’s public education system...receiving the leftist’s rewritten US History.
Maybe you just need to grow up....
Wisdom...
Ahem....
I would also like to add that the Boomers did not have defined pension plans, unless they worked for the government. The majority of us have 401 K which we fund ourselves. Boomer parents had the defined pension plan. The housing crisis was not started with the Boomers. We were already well into the housing market and had equity before the crash. I have seen your generation insist on huge homes with Granite countertops, sub zero refrigerators , huge square footage because you could not bear to live in a starter home with linoleum countertops like we all did. It took my husband and I years to build up until we had the house we have now. The younger generation was too inpatient, and took out huge mortgages they could not afford.
The dumbest thing in the world is to blame humanity for lack of perfection. Shut up and get a job crybaby.
I didn’t see any solutions offered by the author, do you have any?
“punk-ass little condom failure”
LOL!
The problems of America are due to indoctrination into the libtard worldview of emotionalism, collectivism, altruism, statism, and socialism,which started long before the baby boom generation. The baby boom generation was unlucky enough to come along at a time when the methods of indoctrination had been perfected and were able to brainwash a large percentage of the generation. The baby boomers were victims of evil before they became accessories to evil.
Extremely obnoxious article, as the generations that have followed the boomers have been incrimentally worse.
But I do agree that the country went off the rails with the baby-boomers, and has been going in the wrong direction ever since. A myriad assortment of cultural trends and historical dynamics led to a pretty incredibly self-absorbed and self-righteous worldview, which has led to so many of our current problems.
LOL, wardaddy. Baby Boomers, whatever their faults, are incredibly hardworking and they are not getting back what they put into the system. My husband still can’t get his full social security because they keep moving the retirement age - it’s now 66 or 67. And since he was laid off, he can’t get a job! This, a man who worked since he was 12 - in a candy store in the Bronx. We had to buy into Obamacare - 500 a month only to find our “option” was one Indian doctor three counties over!
And yes, 58,000 men died in Vietnam, the bulk being Baby Boomers. And how many continued into the endless wars of the Mideast?
Well I am of that generation and despise the parents of the BBERS who created them...so there. I had to overcome the lack of training by “parents” and the non teachings of a PCUSA (Presbyterian ) church to become what I am.
I am a Baby Boomer, Class of 1947. Unlike most of the boomers, I served in combat as an infantryman, completed a 25 year career in the Army and am still working. The only rock concerts I saw was USO shows. Didn’t smoke dope. I started working when I was 15 and am still working full time.
As for most of my fellow Boomers, I don’t care much for them, never embraced their lifestyle and values, and agree that it’s not a great generation. Their biggest failing is the way they raised the succeeding generation.
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