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Silent Generation, generation of people sandwiched between the “Greatest Generation,” which fought World War II, and the “baby boomers,” the generation born during the surge in births in the United States and other countries in the years immediately following the war. The range of birth years ascribed to the Silent Generation varies slightly according to the generational scheme employed, beginning with either 1925, 1928, or 1929 and ending with either 1942 or 1945

With a younger generation increasingly focused on the problem of rising global temperatures, prominent environmental activist and author Bill McKibben is launching a new grassroots movement to mobilize older Americans to combat climate change and to work on related social justice issues. McKibben, 60, has partnered with co-founders Akaya Windwood, a 65-year-old nonprofit consultant, and Vanessa Arcara, a millennial who worked at 350.org, to mobilize older Americans. Their new group, known as Third Act, is having a soft launch this week and a full-fledged rollout early next year. “Third Act is for people like me — that is to say...

Based on historical patterns, the next president is likely to be a GenXer. This is not good news for the many baby boomers running, or thinking about running, in 2016. When voters decide it is time to move the presidency on to the next generation, they keep electing presidents in that next generation, or they go on to the one that follows. They do not go back. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were from the baby boomer generation. Barack Obama is from the Gen X generation (those born 1961 to 1981). If the pattern holds, the next president will...

Grandma and grandpa are not happy! They are sick of the mess the Occupy Wall Street type brats have made of our country. This is the conclusion to be drawn from a new Pew Research poll of Americans 66 to 83 years of age on our current political situation. Referring to this group as the “Silent Generation”, Pew reports that they came of age in time to vote for Truman Eisenhower and Kennedy, so they did not necessarily fall into the habit of reflexively voting for Roosevelt and the whole Democrat ticket. They had their flirtation with supporting Democrats such...

The valiant generation of Americans that fought World War II to preserve our liberty and western civilization was followed by the worst generation in the history of the country: the Baby Boomer generation born from 1946-1964. The elite Baby Boomers turned the United States from the most prosperous countries on the planet to a country heading toward bankruptcy. It acquired a massive foreign trade deficit that will take generations to pay off. It deconstructed U.S. industries and the invited the invasion of millions of illegal aliens. The Baby Boomers declared the Constitution to be a worthless piece of paper. It...

The Silent Generation has never had a president & now it looks like they never will. I have nothing against the Generation born 1928 - 1945 but John Kerry woulda been the 1st Silent Generation President so I'm kinda happy they don't have a president.

Whether you blame it on greedy geezers, selfish yuppies, young slackers or an irresponsible Congress, our tax dollars keep being spent for non-essentials while Social Security and Medicare edge closer to the financial brink. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office issued a report last week projecting that Social Security will in 15 years begin paying more in benefits than it collects in payroll taxes and that it will become insolvent in 2052. That date was, in fact, a pleasant surprise since estimates earlier this year put the insolvency doomsday 10 years earlier. It will take only comparatively modest changes -- in...