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A little Rant about the "Most Selfish Generation" (Vanity)
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Posted on 09/02/2003 6:17:04 AM PDT by tcostell
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To: tcostell
So what you're saying is that you want it to be all about you. You've learned your lesson well!
To: Sunshine Sister
I can't stop what the federal government is doing as much as I would like to. It's not my fault. Bite me!I apologize if you feel personally slighted. As a member of FR, I'm sure the generalizations I put forth don't actually apply to you.
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:43:19 AM PDT
by
tcostell
To: BureaucratusMaximus
I think that would be the FDR "New Dealers" who are sucking us dry. The Baby Boomers haven't started (yet), but they'll have their parents "gimme, gimme, gimme" AARP attitude to guide them.
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:43:58 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: joey'smom
Actually he's just expressing a view shared by a vast majority of his generation, right or wrong that's how boomers are perceived by Gen X.
To: GrandMoM
I guess you will have to when the BOOMERS aren't around for you to blame all your ills. The tax relief from SS and Medicare will be a great help. Stay healthy.
....That's LIFE -damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Yep.
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:48:50 AM PDT
by
BureaucratusMaximus
(if we're not going to act like a constitutional republic...lets be the best empire we can be...)
To: GrandMoM
I agree with much of the RANT. I am about to turn thirty, work my f'ing ass off to make a living, and see that these Baby Boomers keep passing these "open skies" laws and "school budgets" that keep the cost of buying a home up and up and up. By in large, they are selfish. I'm sorry if some of you don't like it. Nimbyism is rampant among this bunch. Logic and rationality is often absent to the same degree.
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:49:08 AM PDT
by
chris1
To: tcostell
I'd like to see some stats regarding percentages of Gen-Xers who have yet to be weaned from their Boomer parents' nest.
Just a guess on my part, but I seem to see a helluva a lot more 20/30-somethings still suckling at the teat than I remember of the previous generation.
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:50:53 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(40 miles inland, California becomes Flyover Country!)
To: HoundsTooth_BP
I appreciate your sentiment. In fact many of my generation have done everything they can to join the party and skip out on the bill. It's not exclusively a generational issue, but I think the generational aspect of it is somewhat exaggerated at the moment because of demographics. It's what I thought on the train this morning anyway.
Thanks for your comments.
And again to those of you who belong to that age group but are more a part of the solution than the problem, I apologize. I know these are generalizations and therefore don't apply very well to specific people. I hope you'll have some patience with me and take this perspective for what it's worth.
Thanks.
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:51:10 AM PDT
by
tcostell
To: GrandMoM
Step off, granny!
What the author wrote is TOO TRUE. What GOOD have the boomers actually brought to the fore? Their parenting skills leave much to be desired, that's for sure. Drugs, "Great Society," affirmative action... GAG.
Many of them are all about immediate gratification. It's all about what feels good to them, and screw the rest of us. Sorry, but as a Gen-Xer, I am NOT looking forward to the aftermath that we will be left with.
To: Wolfie
I think that would be the FDR "New Dealers" who are sucking us dry. The Baby Boomers haven't started (yet), but they'll have their parents "gimme, gimme, gimme" AARP attitude to guide them. FDR "New Dealers", the LBJ "Great Society", "HillaryCare"; its all the same.
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:53:03 AM PDT
by
BureaucratusMaximus
(if we're not going to act like a constitutional republic...lets be the best empire we can be...)
To: ErnBatavia
Boomers are, by and large, not the parents of Gen-X'ers. I'd say most of our parents were born prior to 1945.
To: tcostell
A great post! Will respond in depth a little later.
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:56:13 AM PDT
by
ikka
To: tcostell
Very interesting. I'm a Gen X-er and at times share your feelings of frustration. However- we must not let the mistakes of the past hold us prisoner, but rather focus on what we can do to create a better futurte. Like Howard Jones says, "things can only get better"
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:56:33 AM PDT
by
Ferret Fawcet
(Trust God's authority, not man's majority.)
To: Ferret Fawcet
However- we must not let the mistakes of the past hold us prisoner, but rather focus on what we can do to create a better futurte. Like Howard Jones says, "things can only get better" Hear Hear...I believe most of us believe that word for word my friend.
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:58:48 AM PDT
by
BureaucratusMaximus
(if we're not going to act like a constitutional republic...lets be the best empire we can be...)
To: tcostell
The later boomers thought this way about the WWII generation in the late 70's and early 80's until Reagan straightened out the economy so a house could be afforded with the interest rates reduced. We saw our parents buy houses for peanuts and then inflation essentially made them free for the mortgage holder. We saw our parents retire on really decent company pensions while our pensions were being liquidated and converted to retirement accounts (stock market bubble and burst) because of federal laws and mergers. We saw the cost of payroll taxes often exceed income taxes to pay for the social security checks that many seniors use for international travel and dining out, exclusively.
It is not the previous generation, it is insane government (and Federal Reserve Bank) policy that will lead us down the path to ruin.
To: tcostell
Anyone consider how my grandma must have felt? She of the white linen summer dresses that came to her well covered ankles? Her daughter, with her hair cut short, sox rolled to the knees, skirts well above same, out drinking and smoking and all of *that*. How about the following generation that had to clean up after that party, with the depression? How about the generation that followed *that* one, with WW2? C'mon folks, we've all had it tough, some more than others but we all manage to survive it, generation after generation.
To: conservativeinbflo.
Boomers are, by and large, not the parents of Gen-X'ers.
Well, this boomer is 56 (born in 1947) and my son is about to turn 35....I thought he was a "Gen-Xer"; could be wrong, tho...
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posted on
09/02/2003 7:04:08 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(40 miles inland, California becomes Flyover Country!)
To: Ferret Fawcet
Well said. Thanks.
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posted on
09/02/2003 7:08:57 AM PDT
by
tcostell
To: tcostell
Socialistic insecurity is a pyramid scheme and like all pyramid schemes, they require an ever increasing number of participants until they exhaust the pool. Hell, let them bring on free drugs for the Most Selfish Generation. It will be that much quicker when the whole Ponzi scheme fails and I will be free at last.
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posted on
09/02/2003 7:11:53 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: ErnBatavia
Oh-- Well your word MUST be gospel. I mean-- you must represent the entire generation. Thank you for clearing that up for me.
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