Posted on 11/14/2011 9:11:04 AM PST by Publius804
Talkin’ about my generation”: the Who song once expressed the hope and self confidence of the Baby Boomers as they reached biological if not emotional maturity. It was an attack on the older generation, a defense of the young, but it includes an ominous refrain: “Hope I die before I get old.” Already, perhaps, the shadow of generational failure hung over the twenty something Boomers. Those shadows have darkened considerably as the Boomer sun moves past the meridian and an unmistakable air of twilight infiltrates into the declining hours of the long Boomer day.
Talking about our generation is not going to be as much fun for the Boomers as it was in those long distant days of infinite promise. My generation has some real accomplishments under its belt, especially in the worlds of science and technology. And we made important progress in making American society a more open place for people and groups who were once excluded. In every field of American life, there are Boomers who have made and are making important, selfless contributions: in hospitals, in classrooms, in government, in business, in the military. You name it and we are there.
But at the level of public policy and moral leadership, as a generation we have largely failed. The Boomer Progressive Establishment in particular has been a huge disappointment to itself and to the country. The political class slumbered as the entitlement and pension crisis grew to ominous dimensions. Boomer financial leadership was selfish and shortsighted, by and large. Boomer CEOs accelerated the trend toward unlimited greed among corporate elites, and Boomer members of corporate boards sit by and let it happen.
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As the new senior citizens, the boomers will be the biggest voting block.
Cut the funding for ALL illegals and you will most likely have plenty of money. We owe the illegals nothing. If we keep supporting them, we may as well support all of Mexico. Is this what we want?
we already are
Of course many people do not fit the stereotype, but the Boomer stereotype is a very self-centered person who only cares about instant gratification. The USA went down a bad road when that approach to life became acceptable.
Maybe I'll go squander most of it at the local Injun casino....
One more stupid essay lumping every Boomer into the same box as if we all shared the same beliefs and are all responsible for the fools in our generation.
About the only things we did share were the music we heard and the world events we saw occur as we grew up. Which is pretty much the same for any age cohort.
To quote a brilliant FReeper regarding the Boomer’s Parents...
“There’s a reason a communist like Rather would call our predecessors “The Greatest Generation,” and it’s not WWII. They bought the “it’s natural” story from Kinsey and tolerated the sexual revulsion. {Some} parents had five divorces between them, wasting what they might have left us on lawyers. They bought what they needed all on a credit card the interest on which was tax deductible. They borrowed for the Great Society, they borrowed to send us to college, and they expected us to pay for their retirement and medical care while ALSO paying for day care because they wouldn’t help with our young children while we were working two jobs to pay for their cushy entitlements. We buy artificial hips, scooter chairs, and nursing care, and still it isn’t enough. We paid inflated prices for housing because they wanted to keep their empty palaces and didn’t want to join an integral family.”
Slamming the boomers? Where did they learn it from?
For anyone born during “Camelot”, there is lots of blame to go around.
Well that’s just not true. You could get rid of illegals and you still would have a basic disconnect between one person paying into Social Security and three people taking out, which is where it will be in 10 years.
The biggest problem, as far as I am concerned, is the whole values divide. He says it’s left and right, but I don’t see it that way. I see it as the secular or the left. I think the secular views of many (including the right) are just as rotten. I see it right here on FR all the time. So many people are consumed with their own needs, wants, and are obsessed with their “rights,” yet there is no wisdom or common sense. Sure, you have the freedom to watch porn, but at what cost to society as a whole? Sure, you have the right to be a greedy trader on Wall Street, but again, at what cost? The Left has infiltrated academia.
In the old days, there were common standards of decency, obligation, and responsibility. Men didn’t leave pregnant women in large numbers as they would have been viewed in a harsh light - not so today. I just heard that PA is going to revamp their laws about reporting child abuse to make them stricter (all of this in light of the Sandusky/Penn State scandal). More and more laws to control every ounce of a person’s life all because nobody wants to follow the old tried and true BIG TEN or to admit that the seven deadly sins really ARE deadly.
Just had to rant. Meanwhile, as a Boomer who has been swimming against the tide of secular humanism and leftist claptrap, I can’t WAIT to see what this Day fellow and HIS generation come up with...(hmmm: euthanasia, etc.)
Thank you for saying what I also believe.
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Neither Paterno or Sandusky was a Boomer.
I know, a generation is made up of individuals, but quite frankly someone has to say “Enough!”
Looks like it will be mine. Tax me, work me to death if you must, but if you try to pass this on to my children, God help you. I will not sacrifice my children's future for you.
The Boomer generation is a faithless one, they embraced the rejection of Christ and filled this society with the false hope of the government will fix all. They embraced socialism and made it their God. They embraced the killing of babies, free love, drugs and drunkenness, and all manner of greed. They hated the innocence of the fifties, and mock it to this day. They rejected any moral compass, but their own.
The rejection of Christianity will not be easy to recover from.
I hope I die exhausted from the work and the fun while trying to catch my breath.
VEry true.
Neither did the greatest gen get rid of the war time practice of taking the “taxes” owed straight out of their pay checks.
That one piece of change has made more and more people less aware of the increasingly out of control spending, because if they HAD to write a check each year, the madness would have stopped long ago.
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