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Suddenly, everyone's turning against us Baby Boomers
Richmond Times Dispatch ^ | 9/14/04 | RAY MCALLISTER

Posted on 09/14/2004 10:06:03 AM PDT by qam1

Whoa! What's happening?

Why are people turning on us?

We're the Baby Boomers, you know.

The Mighty Boomers.

We invented everything from money to music to sex, did we not? Nothing good ever happened until we came along.

Now people are turning on us.

We Baby Boomers are being made to feel . . . guilty.

Ridiculous, isn't it?

People have tried to make us feel guilty before. They said we consumed too much. Or we were too shallow. Or we only thought about ourselves.

Excuuuuse me.

Who should we think about? Somebody else?

All that was just jealousy. Even Tom Brokaw came along and said the World War II generation was "the greatest." Jealousy. Pure jealousy.

Sure, they saved the world.

Did they ever throw a party like Woodstock?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aginghippie; babyboomers; bsboomers; generationi; generationme; generationsponge; genselfabsorbed; genx; issueswithtparents; spoiledbrats; spoiledestgeneration; the60sareover; woodstock
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To: skeeter

You are correct and we have had a big hand in starting the home school movement.I am a single parent who is sacraficing to send my son to a private school. I also know that SS is a ponzi scheme hoisted upon us by another generation and I doubt if I will ever see a nickel from it.


201 posted on 09/14/2004 12:00:35 PM PDT by winodog (JFK is a double minded man, unstable in all his ways)
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To: joesnuffy

You wrote:

"Solyent Green is people baby boomers"

Try reading Jonathan Swift's _A Modest Proposal_ .

Yes, _that_ Jonathan Swift, of _Gulliver's Travels_ .


202 posted on 09/14/2004 12:02:06 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: winodog
It was the power of the mass media which was controlled by commies that gave the minority the voice to overcome the will of the people. Thank the good Lord for the internet which gives your gen the chance to fight back

Well I will agree with a lot of what you said. The commies/liberals/elitists in the media and the more importantly the public education system brainwashed much of what are known as the Baby Boomers, and it continues to this day. I think the problem a lot of generation X'ers have is that the Boomers have been adults for a long time, and so many of them have yet to comprehend the error of their self-serving ways.

Unfortunately, as someone already stated it's the Baby Boomer Women that have done the most damage from the legacy of abortion on demand to the rise of the nanny state. I can't help but slam their neutered husbands, though.

203 posted on 09/14/2004 12:02:33 PM PDT by Smogger
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To: k2blader

You forgot....Earn it!


204 posted on 09/14/2004 12:03:22 PM PDT by Cricket24
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To: grey_whiskers

----Try reading Jonathan Swift's _A Modest Proposal_ .----


205 posted on 09/14/2004 12:05:13 PM PDT by Flux Capacitor (Halliburton RULES.)
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To: JPJones
I calls em like I sees em.

Seriously, there aren't many conservative thinking young women out there. Before I met my wife, I dated quite a few women. Not many of them would have fit in on FR, and all of them had bought into the feminist dogma to one degree or another. I've also seen it in my wife and her friends. Mrs. Wbill is currently out of work - she's worried, but for all the wrong reasons. She wants to stay productive in the workforce and make a difference. Meanwhile, she's redone three rooms in our house and relandscaped the front yard. The place has never looked better. She volunteers three nights a week as well. If that's not staying productive, I don't know what is - but - since she's not challenging the 'glass ceiling', it doesn't count.

It's pretty hard to get along with women by telling them that their beliefs are wrong. So, I think most men either buy into it (metrosexuals), go along with it or maintain their silence (most everyone else). The lucky few find Freepers.

206 posted on 09/14/2004 12:06:25 PM PDT by wbill
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To: qam1
"You've got to warn everyone and tell them! Soylent green is made of Baby boomers! You've got to tell them! Soylent green is Baby boomers!"
207 posted on 09/14/2004 12:06:50 PM PDT by mrsmith ("Oyez, oyez! All rise for the Honorable Chief Justice... Hillary Rodham Clinton ")
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To: Publius

Lordy Lordy you are grim:)


208 posted on 09/14/2004 12:07:19 PM PDT by suzyq5558 (Sayyyyyy....isn't disingenuous dissembler just a fancy way of saying your a LIAR???)
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To: tortoise
GenX folks who seem to be the group most keenly aware of how much this is going to cost them personally, because they will be footing the majority of the bill.

We're keenly aware of it because we have been told in no uncertain terms that Social Secrity won't be there for us literally SINCE GRADESCHOOL!

There isn't ANYONE my age that doesn't know that there WILL BE NO SOCIAL SECURITY WHEN HE OR SHE RETIRES!

We have accepted it a long time ago. To read or watch a story about an older generation discussing Social Security or Medicare entitlements is unfuriating for someone who pays into it all the while knowing it's not for him.

209 posted on 09/14/2004 12:08:45 PM PDT by Smogger
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To: Global_Warming

The person who broke the SS fund was L.B.J. who opened up the SS money to the general fund and let a demo run Congress spend ALL of it on his Great Society. The mans corpse should be dug up and hung on the capitol grounds in Austin.


210 posted on 09/14/2004 12:09:24 PM PDT by MAWG
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To: Trust but Verify
Politicians pander to people who vote, not to people who don't. People who vote in large blocs tend to get what they want, right or wrong.

And they don't just pander to retirees. Other people belly up to the public trough like welfare mothers, People with low income (earned income tax "credit"), government "environmental" scientists, tort lawyers, etc, etc.

211 posted on 09/14/2004 12:09:49 PM PDT by Dan Evans
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To: Hi Heels
You can vote all you want . . . if the money's not there, the money's not there. At best, you'll manage to bring the whole system down (sorry, I don't see the American economy surviving a 90% tax rate, which is what you'll need to preserve the current expenditures), and leave yourselves without anything, including your own savings and investments for retirement.

It may be too late for anything else, unfortunately, thanks to the short-sightedness of previous generations who took SS as a given and the spinelessness of the Boomers on both sides of the aisle today--they aren't willing to cut spending like they need to to prevent the collapse.

Don't expect my generation's gratitude for that.

212 posted on 09/14/2004 12:12:04 PM PDT by Buggman (Your failure to be informed does not make me a kook.)
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To: Night Hides Not
My dear Marie, Boomers with children, by and large, have the same attitude as you.

I won't speak for Boomers without children.

Thank you.

I *know* that there are many, MANY conservative Boomers out there. (Many of them are right here.) My mom is one of them. We don't want you to *die* or live in poverty for the last years of your lives. I think many of my generation are in a panic. We can't see how we can take care of our parents, take care of our children and ensure our own futures all in one shot. Yet, that's what we'll have to do and we don't see a lot of Boomers really bothered by this situation or even a little concerned for us.

And on a positive note, Boomers do tend to be very good grandparents. I don't know of a Boomer that doesn't help out with their grandbabies.

213 posted on 09/14/2004 12:12:04 PM PDT by Marie (I want to be queeeeeen, just like like Hillary! 8 - ))
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To: Buggman

Evidently I shouldn't expect anything from your generation after reading this thread. Unfortunately after working since age 16, working every Republican candidate since Nixon, and raising a child on my own, I would have thought RESPECT would have been a given.


214 posted on 09/14/2004 12:14:05 PM PDT by Hi Heels
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To: Dan Evans
I would rather die hungry than see this country continue to slide toward socialism.

If you have children who love you, you will never die hungry. Many Gen Xers are just as protective of their parents as they are of their children.

215 posted on 09/14/2004 12:14:23 PM PDT by Marie (I want to be queeeeeen, just like like Hillary! 8 - ))
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To: Marie
We can't see how we can take care of our parents, take care of our children and ensure our own futures all in one shot.

You just do it. You do it like I'm doing it. You do it like my parents did it and theirs before. You just DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO without whining. Somehow, it all works out.

216 posted on 09/14/2004 12:16:01 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Become a monthly donor to FR!! $5 per Freeper...and you'll never be bugged again)
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To: Flux Capacitor

That's not like Woodstock. We were nekkid at Woodstock.


217 posted on 09/14/2004 12:16:06 PM PDT by Hi Heels
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To: Ciexyz

like you didn't work!


218 posted on 09/14/2004 12:17:59 PM PDT by eyespysomething ("...you're not fit to be a prison guard at Abu Ghraib, much less commander in chief.")
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To: skeeter
Crap. I fell in anyway...

It's so hard not too, but I've read everything here and felt at that I've learned a bit. As someone else posted: the real problem is the DNC and their sycophants, I propose we view this topic as a friendly argument.

219 posted on 09/14/2004 12:19:52 PM PDT by JPJones ("We'll cross all our tee's and dot all our.....lower case j's")
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To: Smogger

I agree that many boomers are screwed up but all generations have been like this. I think the 33% rule has been a standerd throughout history.

33% feel one way, 33% feel the oppisite and 33% dont care. And feminism has been a horrific mistake. I blame the media. Between TV and newspapers and magazines becoming something everyone had and watched brainwashing us and the fact that liberals tended to get easy jobs in gov. and teaching while pubs wanted more from life and aspired to greater things like starting companies.

Many things came together at the right time in history to help make America a socialist nation. But history has shown the exact same things happen to every society.

The 33% that are socialist, liberals, democrats, humanists have succeded in almost destroying America. Boomers should be able to use the power of the vote to turn the tide but too many paid into the system and they are gonna want their check. We are on a decline and I do feel for the generations that follow us.

They are gonna have to stop whining and learn to change things within the system. I wish we could have a revolution but I think gov.org has too much power and military equipment to put down any rebellion.

The X,Y,Z gen should be thankful that the boomers have given them the greatest tool ever in the internet to change things and they should be using it.


220 posted on 09/14/2004 12:20:50 PM PDT by winodog (JFK is a double minded man, unstable in all his ways)
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