Posted on 11/10/2005 1:22:46 PM PST by qam1
Isn't is exciting to see.....sounds just like my small town.
Yes, they took chances like "what happens when we abort a full third of pregnancies" and "what happens when we steal from generations which can't yet vote to pay for our own responsibilities"?
It must have been great spending three times what you earned, in the glow of a peace achieved by the heroic sacrifices of the generation before. Congrats, I hope you enjoyed it, because when it's over, God is not likely to be amused.
Those of us who came after the boomers have no similar heroic sacrifices of the generation before to point to, because there were none, just abject cowardice and craven greed.
Roe. v Wade = 1973
I was born in 1972.
If that's not my parents' generation to blame, then there's no accounting to be had at all.
From what I know...the 60's generation thought commies were great!!!!
You are so full of it.
Three things this article misses:
1) Tax cuts generate more revenue than high taxes. Didn't we learn anything from Ronaldus Magnus?
2) Those expensive government programs should SHRINK, starting about now, b/c their client pool is shrinking; sorta like expecting the tax payers to keep on funding a shrinking school population, at the same, exoribitant levels. But this is the Dems worst nightmare.
3) Everyone needs to start building their own parts closet- for cloned parts. No problem! We Boomers can work till we're buried.
I noticed that a couple of "senior assisted living" facilities were built in my hometown over the last couple of years. I couldn't help but notice that they were built on old industrial sites that had been vacant for years due to some kind of contamination. Call it "indirect euthanasia," I guess. LOL.
I had friends DIE in the cold war bucko! Who the hell do you think were serving during that time? BTW, all voluntary.
Man, do you need to either grow up or grow a pair. I've got five kids, all of whom would find your attitude pathetic.
Yep it ain't gonna be pretty for the boomers once they are no longer able to impose their will by force. It will be poetically just if the last gasp of the culture of death championed by the boomers is to euthenize them and prevent them from further draining the resources of those who came after (this is generously assuming there's anything left for the boomers to steal by that time).
I am saying a bit more than the Funess of my post....
IMHO..People are DRY now they live in the confines of there personal areas, this is caused by many things, and feminisim has went awry that is for sure, but one thing I know many women are not going back to the Generation of World War 11 women, I can be anything I want to be and being in my late 40's I raised one son and I am a wife, daughter, mother, friend a child of GOD, I am my own person
and Thank God I am...
I want nothing from the government but to be left alone to pursue happiness as I define it. I do not believe it is my civic or moral duty to prop up the welfare state or its many clients.
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In my case a union job (CWA)for ten hours a day then night school.
Your persuasive ability is simply unparalleled. AND you're good-looking and smart too.
Yep, I happened to lose my dad in the middle of high school and was working graveyard then to to help pay the mortgage at home.
Such is life, we all get what we are dealt, but thank God I was born an American.
Why thank you. :-)
I agree with your post #99...my hubby is actually a little older than most baby boomers, being born in 1943...but I was born in late 1945, so altho we are a little older than the 'official' baby boomers, still we consider ourselves within that generation...
My hubby just retired a few months ago...I retired several years ago...we are married for 36yrs...raised two fine boys, worked hard all our lives, never expected anything from anyone, never had an abortion, paid for our current house with cash, have a nice nest egg for our retirement, just bought big RV cash, have no bills, and guess what?...most of our friends of our age, also resemble us in this way...we are self supporting, hard working, good parents, and expect nothing from anyone for free...
And yes, ,I did have an idyllic childhood, with very little TV, and lots and lots of outdoor fun and activities, never did drugs(or even knew anyone who did drugs), and grew up with great love and great discipline, which hopefully we used as a role model to raise our own children...
My husband gave 28yrs of his life to serving in the military, and loved doing so...then he spent another 12 yrs working at the post office(yeah, thats right the post office, is there a dolt who wants to make a nasty post office worker comment?)...his retirements from the army and the post office added to my retirement from the nursing home where I worked for years, added to our savings, means that we dont have to rely on any SS pmts...so, what is everyones solution?...should we return our social security pmts?...I dont think so...we put into it all of our lives, and had we not been forced to pay into social security, we would have saved and invested it...and we do hope to recover some amt of what we paid into it...
And guess what...there are millions and millions of baby boomers who are in the same 'good' situation as we are...
If one baby boomer parents did a bad job on raising them, thats not my fault...its your own parents fault, and confront them on it...stop acting like all baby boomers, are the problem, because they are not...
When my dad, a WW11 navigator, fighting in the Pacific, told me to never count on Social security, but save for myself, I took that as gospel...my dad was a wise man...dad never thought social security would last to give him anything back...well, he was wrong, he did collect...I passed onto my sons the same wisdom from my dad...provide for yourself, count on no one else, and forget social security as a possibility...I never thought social security would last to pay me, or my husband, but again I was wrong..but my son does believe I am entirely correct, social security will never last to pay him anything...and he from his earliest days of working, began saving for his retirement...
So altho many baby boomers act like morons, that can be said of every generation...every single generation has its morons, and it also has those who are responsible...Labeling one whole generation of people, as being one way or another, is just plain stupid...
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