The Great Boomer Comeuppance

American Thinker ^ | October 05, 2008 | Richard Berry

[Comparative Advantage]

Spot on! Well said.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

They identify with the Hopper character in Easy Rider.

Too bad they didn’t learn the overall lesson of the movie.

[Dems_R_Losers]

My 15-year-old son came home from school the other day and said “thanks, mom, your generation has screwed up this country so bad that mine is going to have to spend decades fixing it.” I had to tell him he was right. I also told him it was no accident that our two candidates for president are a pre-Boomer and a post-Boomer. We had Boomer presidents for the last 16 years and they messed up everything that Reagan and Bush had fixed. My son said he wants McCain to be elected because the generation before the Baby Boom knew what it was doing. I guess his school has done a lousy job of indoctrinating him!

[decimon]

This generational crap is just another bigotry; another way to avoid addressing reality.

Boomer = Jew = Black = Irish = Italian...

[Rudder]

All boomers think alike. That’s the intellectually lazy position of this would-be pundit.

[RedRover]

Three words: “We blew it.”

[blueheron2]

First of all the moron is painting a generation with to wide a brush. Secondly , who taught the so called elite their values? Exactly. Just like the boomers didn't lose the Vietnam war (WW II veterans did) it sounds like someone in search of a coherent thought just went off the rails.

[Comparative Advantage]

“Boomer = Jew = Black = Irish = Italian...”

Huh?

[bert]

.....“thanks, mom, your generation has screwed up this country so bad that mine is going to have to spend decades fixing it.”.....

Is your son named Calvin? Did he have a pal, a tiger called Hobbes?

His statement is pure Calvin and Hobbes.

Alas, they are gone from the comics, but perhaps they are alive and well

[decimon]

Which part didn’t you get?

[rbg81]

Bookmark. Of course, this is not true of all Boomers (as I am one), but it true of the ones that control the machinery of state and finance. We are the generation that had all the advantages and should have known better.

[Comparative Advantage]

None of it.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

bookmark

[mewzilla]

Note to boomers from the generation coming right after you: Payback’s a...well, you know.

[ken21]

spot on!

i noticed that the boomers sucked when i was in college.

my friends and roommates grew up on green leafy streets with doting moms.

their parents’ money paid for their educations and constant travel.

i grew up with nothing.

i noticed they hated working people. visiting our family farm they laughed at the manure and the hard work. they were above that.

[decimon]

The author, Berry, displays a collectivist mentality, groupthink. If there is a problem then there is some group to blame for it. In Germany they blamed the Jews. In the US many have blamed some ethnic group. Or the rich. Or the white people. Or the men. Or the Boomers.

[blueheron2]

Anyone that has been around long enough has seen what has happened the last two times gas (energy) prices have skyrocketed. Bad recessions, bad economies etc. The price gouging going on now in the markets make the last two times pale in comparison. Anyone could have seen this coming like an atom bomb. Thank Putin, Iran, Saddam, Saudi Arabia, Chavez, China, Democrats etc, not any generation in particular.

The generation before that gave us Lyndon Johnson ,Water Cronkite,Mao,Stalin Hitler to name a few.

[decimon]

Note to boomers from the generation coming right after you: Payback’s a...well, you know.

Note to your generation: ditto the next generation. So you'd better leave this a perfect world.

BTW - you enjoying that personal computer?

[Mediocrates]

This generational crap is just another bigotry; another way to avoid addressing reality said the Boomer.