Posted on 11/10/2005 1:22:46 PM PST by qam1
Only problem is that you didn't pay as much as we will pay. I can't remember the numbers but something like six or seven of you guys paided into the system for every retired person.
On the other hand the workers in a few years will on be one or two paying for the retired person.
Codswallop. Unions were around long before my generation. BTW, I have never belonged to a union.
You citation, please for this fact you present for overwhelming support for euthanasia among boomers.
Thanks in advance for your thoroughness
haha.....my dad did same.....without shoes.......
Yes, an 8 hour day in a union shop, which includes an hour for lunch and two 15 minute coffee breaks.
Yeah, 6.5 hours a day of work. Real tough.
It wasn't at the time, I don't live in the Woulda, Shoulda Coulda, state of mind.
I did what I did because at the time it was *right* for me..
If I lived with regrets, I could not grow as a human being..
Bingo.
Another worthwhile take on demographics can be found in the most recent Steyn column. Though it focuses on France and Europe, there are some lessons for the U.S.:
Mark Steyn: It’s the demography, stupid
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1519371/posts
My arms would fall off if I tried to do what a steel-worker does. But that steel worker's head would explode if he tried to do what I do (I'm a computer scientist with a PhD in Math). Have you ever concentrated so hard on a problem that you developed a migraine from sheer mental effort? How dare you suggest that what we do isn't work???
And what about those baby boomers that served in the military?....for my hubby, his days began at 6am, and lasted until 5pm...and what about when in the field, and on duty 24hrs a day...and what about CQ duty, being on alert, and all the other times that an 8 or 10 hr day would be a luxury...my husband put in long, long days while in the military, but he never whined about it...it was just a fact of life, when one is in the military...
And once out of the military, and working at the post office, my husband put in 11 hour days, every single day, and worked every other weekend...he was used to working hard, and long hours in the military, so doing the same for the post office was a snap(tho with the post office he received overtime pay, which was never the case with the military)...
All this whining, and pointing of fingers, about how this generation is bad, or that generation is good, is nothing but generalizations, which again, I will say is stupid...there are good and bad individuals in every single generation...
Sorry but I am of the WWII generation and have NO IDEA what they do other than play nintendo like my Grandchildren.
Um, you just said that the way to grow as a human being is to avoid accumulating any experience whatsoever. Wow. We're definitely conversing between planets here.
:-)
You are a breath of fresh air on this thread.
Cheers,
CSG
Oh but it's really tough sitting on your duff just like I am doing right now on this computer typing on FR while ALSO doing my own work I get paid for, GEEZ I could do this all night without breaking a sweat. THANK GOD I can excercise early mornings and later evenings so I can give my heart a good jolt of activity.
While I generally and philosophically agree, my take based on no more than overflights on the way east-west or vice-versa, is that there is one *whole* lot of nothing in the American West.
Spoken like someone who has no clue.
Cheers,
CSG
You sound like me. That's my plan when our kids are grown. Nothing cheese me more than to hear people complaining about their parents spending "our inheritance". I already told my children we can help them a little when they go to college, but since there are five of them they have the choice of working their way through college and having us take care of ourselves or we can pay for college and then we can move in with them so they can take care of us, since we'll be broke. My children liked the first idea better.
I gave up a career to stay home and raise my children. I am now watching my grandchildren in order to help out my son and his wife. We have paid for college, for a business start-up, for extra medical and dental bills.
In the effort to keep our children in the schools where they had friends, we had to change careers and nearly lost our house (which is why our debt load is so high...we are paying off debts occurred during the lean years).
There are millions of couples like me. I can't help it that there are a lot of jerks in my generation, but I can point to my children's generation and show an equal number of selfish jerks.
If you ask me, the inter-generational "warfare" is pushed by the left, who would like nothing better than to have families torn asunder. It makes their job easier.
You don't know what the heck I have done or not done. I paid, I reap. Get over it. I also paid for your education as well.
BTW, if this is the attitude of your generation, I am bloody glad I never had any children.
And to think I busted my a$$ day and night to keep you free. Go figure.
The way *I* you seem to forget I am one of those Boomers who are into *I* and I am not dis-counting what you do for a living at all, but it's far from the sweat that many men had to do to take care of a wife and 7 children with little education....
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