Don't die Woodstock! On the other hand, good riddance to bad rubbish!
And don't let the casket lid hit you on the way out.
Posted on 04/23/2006 11:43:48 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
None of the people you list is a Boomer. None. They are either from the pre-boomer (Korean War) or the "Greatest Generation."
Don't die Woodstock! On the other hand, good riddance to bad rubbish!
And don't let the casket lid hit you on the way out.
As a baby boomer (aged 50), I couldn't agree with you more.
Later liberal boomers took advantage of it, of course, but the dumbing down was started by those of an earlier generation.
I do not expect the Boomer Generation to go gently in to that good night. They may not just "move aside" when their time comes, the retirement of the prior generations is probably not for them.
For good and ill, the Boomers will continue to make their mark on society.
True, I'm a 1950 baby and I remember that it was those born in the late 1930s and early 1940s that were the first true hippies and such (think; The Beatles, all born in the early 1940s).
Don't forget Clinton. He had rug burns as bad as JFK's rice shrapnel.
Hey, know a good sub for 6F6? ;)
...And none of this is true about them either, right?
"Older people are driven today to extend their working lives by a variety of factors: economic uncertainties, poor retirement planning, collapsing pension plans and longer life spans.
MetLife, for example, reports that 54 percent of baby boomers are concerned they will have to work either part time or full time after age 65 to have a comfortable retirement.
“I think there are a lot of workers who are getting older who want to continue working, but not necessarily in the same careers,” USD's Rothman said. “These baby boomers want to stay involved, and work is one of the ways they will do that.”
But as Timmerman points out, employers will be motivated to find ways to keep employees longer only when they witness firsthand the shrinking pool of experienced talent. "
In some ways, the "boomers" are actually the victims of a horribly effective government/media/academic/corporate/castro/et al. brainwashing campaign. Social research has been in high gear since the 1920's, at least. Without doubt they were/are a very studied demographic and an important one due to the relative size. Socialist scientists are a patient lot, at least. "Make Love, Not War"
That's what I meant by transfer of wealth; I wasn't implying it was money the boomers didn't earn. Of course they earned it. And it could go either way with the market.
No, you are right. As I think back on that time, people like the recently deceased Reverend William Sloan Coffin were adults, and it was some of those older people who joined the youth movement and helped corrupt it.
It didn't happen in the 50s, I wouldn't say, but when it did happen it was helped along by older folks like Timothy Leary, Alfred Kinsey, and Norman O. Brown in academia. Curiously, I was just thinking about that this morning. Older people supported their students' misbehavior on campus, published books to help further corrupt the movement, and contributed to making it what it was. The word then was "Trust no one over 30," but in fact they did trust a few chosen advisers.
Chief Justice William Brennan was the guy who thought up Roe v. Wade, and he was already a fairly old man when that happened. So it was a coalition of starry eyed rebellious youths and older trouble makers who should have known better.
I've always thought that the one thing the Boomers would be unable to overwhelm by sheer force of numbers and self-esteem is the moment of death and judgment. Otherwise, they have been pretty good and bending reality itself.
"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."
This is a great example of how effective the media is with many Americans.
You just named some of the best examples of the leadership that is responsible for America's problems.
Not a one of them is a boomer, now keep working on the list of leaders from the 50s 60s 70s and 80s and you'll see much the same. (real leaders,not college activists or guitar players, or young actresses, although, even Jane Fonda isn't a boomer)
Years after the 60s, the Vietnam war, Roe vs Wade,"the Great Society", Camelot, after all that, in 1980 Ronald Reagan was elected, the boomers ranged in age in 1980 from 34 to 16.
If people want to trace the roots of homelessness for example, look to 1963, when the oldest boomer in existence was 17.
"Exercising misguided intentions, President Kennedy signed the Community Mental Health Centers Act in 1963. His stated purpose was to integrate institutionalized individuals back into the population. From that day until 1980 when the law expired, the population in the nation's mental health institutions dropped by 70%. With inadequate numbers of community mental health centers, psychiatrists, and therapists to help the newly released mentally ill individuals integrate into the community, many of them wound up living on the street or in prisons."
"Social research has been in high gear since the 1920's, at least"
And in the 40s during and after the War, the left grabbed hold of all of our institutions.
The boomers were the first large group to start fighting back against the left, and they will be the most conservative in the future as well.
The company wants to burry their head in the sand but that's OK, I'll have my 401K and my lump-sum pension to keep me warm. {;o)~
And without all the knowledge we will lose when all these baby boomer middle managers (what exactly they manage is beyond me, but I'm suuurrre it's important) retire....
And who can deny we won't all suffer when there are fewer Human Resources personal, corporate motivational speakers and diversity trainers..
How in the world are American businesses going to compete in the world with out all of those people
But the point is moot, because without the large number of baby boomer nannies out there, passing laws like banning smoking in bars and requiring helmets while riding a bicycle and doing such enlightening studies like how eating too many french fries can cause health problems, none of us are going to be able to take care of ourselves and were all going to die anyhow.
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