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Are baby boomers to blame for debt crisis?
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| 2011-07-29
| Ed Hornick
Posted on 07/30/2011 10:32:57 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
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To: NotFinished
A nice reminder. THANK YOU!
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posted on
07/30/2011 10:56:00 PM PDT
by
RowdyFFC
To: Lazlo in PA
When handed a bucket of s#!t and told to pick the best turd, you are screwed.You still have the choice to fight back.
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posted on
07/30/2011 10:56:55 PM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(Live Free or Die)
To: rabscuttle385
And many in Congress are baby boomers, as has been the case for many years, now. I blame the generation or two prior to the boomers for putting the framework in place for the vast expansion of government. But I blame boomers for the fiscal mess that we now find ourselves in due to the wanton spending over the past few decades, the past decade in particular. Yes, Congress can be blamed, but who keeps putting the liberal/Marxist tools in office? Of course, nothing is ever the fault of this self-absorbed generation, so the criticism will roll right off them - "we didn't start the fire", and all that nonsense.
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posted on
07/30/2011 10:58:10 PM PDT
by
Major Matt Mason
(“I must confess, when I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat")
To: RowdyFFC
Perfectly said. Thank you.
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posted on
07/30/2011 10:59:26 PM PDT
by
peggybac
To: Major Matt Mason
Yes, Congress can be blamed, but who keeps putting the liberal/Marxist tools in office?Finally, someone is getting the message.
If one does not want socialism (or socialism lite, which is still socialism), then don't vote for it.
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posted on
07/30/2011 11:00:03 PM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(Live Free or Die)
To: rabscuttle385
Absolutely a fact that the voters of that period put these policies in place and refused to look at what was happening. I absolutely blame my generation and that which followed for giving all these Democrats too much power and trust.
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posted on
07/30/2011 11:00:52 PM PDT
by
arrogantsob
(Why do They hate her so much?)
To: rabscuttle385
My Family lived in Summit,AK when I was born and Dad was in charge of the meat. Mom was in charge of the dry goods and her twice yearly visits to Anchorage on the RR. If somebody wants to say I am responsible for their problem, I was taught to be responsible for kicking their ass.
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posted on
07/30/2011 11:01:17 PM PDT
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
To: rabscuttle385
A big problem is that people no longer take failure seriously.
In the old days when a person failed they lived under a bridge or highway overpass.
These days failures expect to live in nice homes.
The prospect that they could end up completely destitute never entered the mind as a possibility.
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posted on
07/30/2011 11:03:35 PM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
(Obama is making me sick.)
To: rabscuttle385
You still have the choice to fight back.
Did that in '10. As far as I am concerned, that turned out well. We have a Conservative Gov and one Conservative Senator in PA plus swept both houses. A Conservative Gov is something that has never happened before here. I am not one of these dudes that sit things out. I have voted in every single election, no matter how small, since I started voting. Drove 5 hours home from college 3 times because I didn't trust the absentee ballots.
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posted on
07/30/2011 11:06:10 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: rabscuttle385
Voted for Nixon, Reagan, Bush 1 (figured he'd continue with the Reagan policy's...he didn't the jerk)n Bush 2 was a vote against Gore. He would have been far worse. The guy is a nut case...Most of the time it is a vote against the other guy...Wouldn't have voted for McCain (cannot stomach the jerk) but did vote for Palin....Lets face it, when it comes to politics, its not the cream that rises to the top, its the scum....Usually a vote between bad and worse...Lets hope it's better this time....so far I don't like any of the candidates that have thrown their hats in the right...
To: rabscuttle385
Don’t forget we had an extremely pro big government press who did not do their duty.
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posted on
07/30/2011 11:09:15 PM PDT
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
To: rabscuttle385
They lived well, grew up in relative abundance and, some say, expected their Social Security, health care and government support to be there as they grew old.
Of course they expected it to be there. They paid into it for a large portion of their lives and were repeatedly told that the money was safe. In a lockbox. Untouchable. Now when it comes time to get the money they were promised back, A-holes like this writer speak about them as if they are greedy moochers.
This kind of reporting is disgraceful. Seriously, how can people actually think like this?
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posted on
07/30/2011 11:09:31 PM PDT
by
Personal Responsibility
(if there were a little more of me around we'd all be better off.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
In the old days when a person failed they lived under a bridge or highway overpass.
In the old days people would dust themselves off and do it again. Never quit, never give up. The safety net is to big now. If you fail, you just whine and take handouts.
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posted on
07/30/2011 11:09:40 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: goat granny
Voted for Nixon, Reagan, Bush 1 (figured he'd continue with the Reagan policy's...he didn't the jerk)n Bush 2 was a vote against Gore. He would have been far worse. The guy is a nut case...So basically, all you (and other voters like you) did was kick the can down the road.
If Gore had been elected in 2000 and gone nuts like Obama, it's quite possible that the Tea Party would have arisen to challenge him and the other statists eleven years ago.
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posted on
07/30/2011 11:11:27 PM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(Live Free or Die)
To: rabscuttle385
Please! This swill of blanket blame (or praise) of a entire generation for everything and anything that occurred during their lifetime gets a bit tiresome.
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posted on
07/30/2011 11:15:31 PM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: qam1
That’s right, blame an entire family of boomers who lived 25 mi. from Mt.McKinley and Mom could only get the train after the sno-go came through.
Unfortunately for you there are 7 children that survived. You can take your muti-media boomer outbreak and shove it.
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posted on
07/30/2011 11:15:34 PM PDT
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
To: rabscuttle385
Too funny! Your rant against the baby boomers, when this crop of current commies was voted in by YOU X & Y’ers, INCLUDING Obama and the cadre now serving who were handed the keys to car and drove it in the ditch burning up $6 TRILLION dollars before it hit bottom! ROFL!
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posted on
07/30/2011 11:16:22 PM PDT
by
RowdyFFC
To: rabscuttle385
Well, we are all constrained by who the candidate is. Congress kicked the can down the road, I didn't get to vote in the House of Rep. or the Senate. For those that were born in the 30’s 40’s, they didn't vote until the 60’s and 70’s. There were NO conservative voices out there except National Review and William F. Buckley....I thought I was the only conservative outside of him. The press was a leftist then as they are now. Without Rush, Levin and other conservatives with a public voice, no Internet and only 3 leftist networks, it wasn't easy voting at times, but you have to choose of shut up about the outcome.
To: rabscuttle385
Jerry Shereshewsky, the self-described "chief grown-up" at the firm GrownUpMarketing, is a baby boomer...And...there's your problem. A bunch of "buzzword bingo," MBA-centric, dishonest fools for the most part have ascended to the top of the heap in this generation.
I was born in very late '64, and have been saying since I was a teenager that they would destroy the Country.
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