Posted on 06/19/2009 10:46:38 AM PDT by Daveinyork
My wife recently sent me an email. I am 60 and picture myself as the old man in this story.
*****A self-important college freshman walking along the beach took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen resting on the steps why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his generation.
“You grew up in a different world, actually a primitive one” the student said loud enough for others to hear. “The young people of today grew up with television, jet planes, space travel man walking on the moon. We have nuclear energy, ships, and cell phones, computers with light speed ...... and many more”
After a brief silence, the senior citizen responded as follows.
“You’re right son. We didn’t have those things when we were young... so we invented them. Now you arrogant little sh*t what are you doing for the next generation?
Yep. It was the GI generation that gave us the Great Society and Stagflation.
I don’t blame baby-boomers for consumption - I blame them instead for giving us soft-statist-socialist culture and destroying any knowledge of and respect for the American Republic.
Where’s a rotten tomato when you need one?
The Baby Boomers are the most evil, selfish, perverted, satanic generation America has ever produced.
I would exclude the conservative baby boomers:
1)They were the swing votes that got us Ronald Reagan in 1980.
2)Many were the JR NCO’s and and JR officers in the military who stayed during the late 70’s despite the Democrats best efforts to cut off the military’ knees.
3)Many were the architects of the technology boom of the 1990’s.
...and I’m a Gen x’er giving credit where credit is due....
No, I would blame the New Deal and the Great Society for doing that. Guess who supported those programs? Hint: It wasn’t the boomers.
True - FDR gave us the New Deal, but the Boomers took it, and added drugs, anti-Americanism, fashionable-academic Marxism, free-love, and healing crystals, to give us the new-age Nazism we are steadily entering.
And, after about thirty years of continual growth, it was a Boomer Republican Congress who forced a Boomer Dem President to sign the first meaningful welfare reform act (1995?), since welfare programs were passed into law by Dems in the 1960s.
And, now, it was the post Boomer Obama who gutted some of the welfare reforms passed by the Boomers
Lots of reckless statements being made all around blaming the Boomers for everything. But a little knowledge reveals that they are responsible for far less than they are blamed for. The assorted Commies, socialists, red diaper babies and fellow travelers among the GG brought about most of the changes, and guilt-ridden inheritors of unearned wealth such as the Kennedys.
One thing boomers have been very good as is feeling guilty, even when we are not really guilty. You are correct. A lot of what went wrong with America is the result of the two generations preceding the boomers, but the legacy of boomers is pretty mixed, as it is for most generations. Since I’m only 59 (and a half) I’m not finished creating my legacy. I’m just getting warmed up.
“Where’s a rotten tomato when you need one?”
Didn’t she just break her elbow?
Very true. Boomers lived through the Civil Rights Era and many took on a load of guilt they've been carrying around ever since. And the '60s radical turned conservative David Horowitz has written about how some older socialists and fellow travelers were poised and ready to exploit the upheavals of the '60s, and they did exploit that era for all it was worth.
It almost hiccoughed the entire auditorium and I felt someone give me an attaboy pat on my shoulder.
After the pledge, I turned around a saw a middle aged woman that looked at me and said, "I got it"
And the delights of moral equivalence where innocents are just as guilty as the bad who cause trouble for them.
I blame them for expecting the younger generation to grow up sooner so they can hand over the reins of responsibility sooner.
Son graduated college in 1996. Had to listen to the speaker bash Jesse Helms.
Made me sick to listen to the idiot.
“...was implement by the Greatest Generation, in the years from about 1960 until about 1992.”
My Dad (RIP) hated FDR and Kennedy - I never understood that as a kid.
My Mom (91 this year) doesn’t have cable so still gets her news from ABC or whatever. She commented that “Well, I didn’t vote for him, but the New Deal got us out of the Great Depression, so I think Obama’s New Deal will work too.” As an adult - I don’t understand that! I gently try to inform her about the realities of the New Deal and FDR - but to so many of that era he is viewed as a savior.
Ping
Boomers didn't give us those things, libtards and their sheep did. While there are boomers among them, many of us aren't... casting us all in the same mold is pretty ignorant, IMHO
My nephew graduated in 95 and I had to listen to America bashing in general. However, at least there was a prank at the ceremony.....streaker girl runs on stage, shakes her huge wally's at the graduates, then runs off. I went from frown to smile in seconds, although I absolutely do NOT approve of public nudity, but if its going to forced on me then a cute lady with big ones makes it less offensive.
Kinda like blaming an entire generation for the faults of a subset of that generation ... you were trying to be ironic moronic, weren't you?
LOL......thanks for the laugh. Surely needed it today.
The speaker at my son’s graduation was Steven Bochco of NYPD Blue fame (at the time)
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