Posted on 04/23/2006 11:43:48 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
I remember as a child in the 70s that the elders were highly respectful and selfless people. At some time that all changed and now we have the real "me" generation. I think it correlates with the mass media and the successful ingraining of socialism in the people. Ask yourself (or anyone) from where came the idea that the government (or other) is responsible for paying your health care. Where did that come from? It is the "stupidest" idea I ever heard of!
I don't mean to brag, but, I have forgotten more than most youngsters will ever know about car motors, tractors, lawn mowers,heat exchangers, tube radios, generators, guns, women, boats and booze. I have had a good life!
The last truly educated crop of students ended in 1966. I were 1 of 'em.
Beware the wealthy man and the educated man.
Yeah, I am in the same class as you and resent being lumped with the boomers. Those of us born during the war and just before the war resent being lumped with the parasitic, slimeball, socialist, communistic, criminal baby boomers. Hmmm, was I too easy on them or should I have been more specific?
I love being a boomer!
Naw, once we retire we can concentrate our full attention on getting what we want from the government.......
There was the bronze age, the age of aquareous........ I belong to the metallic age. I've got silver in my hair, gold in my teeth and lead in my ass.
For me the real push back against the left started in 1980 with the election of Ronald Reagan.
The boomers that year ranged in age from 34 to 16.
While the struggle goes back and forth, in general it has gained strength as the boomers came of age, and started taking the reins of power from the left wing "Greatest Generation"
Why do you think the media calls them the "Greatest Generation", believe me is isn't because many of the men were drafted to fight WWII.
Xer's and Gen Y and Gen Next can blame us for a lot. It's always a comfort to have people to blame when things go wrong but we lived in probably the most interesting times since the nation got through it's birth pangs. It wasn't always clear what the options and choices and demands we faced meant. We did a pretty good job, all considered. The economy is a great deal more powerful than it was in 1945. People have many more choices about many more things. That's both good and bad for some but I see it as an expansion of freedom. We've lost some freedoms too and that's a sore point with many of us. All in all, I've had a ball
82!? And they use him as a boomer?
I take pains to tell people I am not a boomer.
Only a very tiny percentage of Boomers are/were Woodstock-type druggies or hedonists. A much higher percentage of Boomers voted for Bush in the last two prez elections than did the younger generations. Regardless of political affiliation, I would wager that the average Boomer is much more conservative socially than members of the younger generations. Don't confuse California with the rest of the country. But I'll bet there are plenty of conservative Boomers in California too.
Actually, the problem is the reverse.
If you read the newspapers, they're throwing out waves of boomers and pre-boomers while there is no young voice. They have an unlimited supply of Helen Thomases, Dan Rathers, even Walter Cronkites, Jimmy Carters, Jesse Jacksons, Larry Kings, etc., while there are no young fresh voices. It's as though they're trying to preserve the consciousness of the '60s as the perpetual culture.
The whole bias is still towards seniority -- and the exploitation of the young. That's what this smokescreen is about. The entrenched status quo is using the dispossessed to remain at the top. They could care less about the people out of the loop.
You better hope the post-Boomers are as conservative ... which I sincerely doubt. Looking at the riots caused by socialist agitators, like in Seattle some years back, the great majority of the malcontents appeared to be non-Boomers. You'd better worry about your own generation my friend.
By in large, you appear to be devoid of facts.
It's depressing to be lumped together with that group. I have felt like an alien with my own generation throughout all the years.
This story is all ablut history.
Fpr every person who has retired, a less experienced person has taken his place. It isn't a "baby boomer" thing.
Doesn't matter...twenty-somethings know everything already anyway.
Eat your heart out because our turn to the grave will be delayed a lot longer than our parents, because of scientific breakthroughs WE discovered . BTW we are rich beyond our dreams also . Ain't life a bitch ?
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