[chargers fan]

I never blamed the Baby Boomers for the SS/Medicare mess. I blame them for having enough vocal and active members that were able to change the course of the country in the 60s. Also, I blame the “Greatest Generation” more for that. Like Dennis Prager says, they had great morals but failed to pass them on to their children.

[9YearLurker]

The Greatest Generation was all for the too-good-to-be-true transfer of wealth that was the SS/Medicare Ponzi scheme.

[skeeter]

Right now I'd wager that the senior voting block is the only thing keeping the liberals from a complete takeover of the federal government ala California.

Why continually antiagonize them with this kind of meaningless blame fixing?

[floralamiss]

I remember a sixties where moms and dads were shocked and angered that everything they were trying to teach and hand down to their children was roundly and sneeringly rejected as being the BS of “the Establishment”. Families were being torn apart. There was NO “peace and love”. It was a violent decade in every respect. I hated the sixties.

[Ol' Sox]

So many Generational discussion participants completely ignore the "Silent Generation" which sits between the Greatest and the Boomers. Folks born between 1925 and 1945 were the kids during WWII and the Great Depression, and their childhoods were greatly influenced by huge government. This generation was largely influential during the '60's, and most of the liberal radicals that are identified in these threads are from this generation. The "Silents" were the Beat generation, the folk singers, the Berkley campus radicals and the parents of the majority of the boomers.

Look at little closer at this generation, and you will find that most of the blame you sling at the Boomers, rightly belongs with the Silents.

[dalereed]

“Dennis Prager says, they had great morals but failed to pass them on to their children.”

He's skipping my generation, which is the smallest in history, that is between them and the baby boomers.

Everything was passed on to my generation and we are the ones that failed to smack the crap out of the baby boomers and give them a background for hard work and individual responsibility.

[ansel12]

I never blamed the Baby Boomers for the SS/Medicare mess. I blame them for having enough vocal and active members that were able to change the course of the country in the 60s. Also, I blame the “Greatest Generation” more for that.

People forget that there is a generation before boomers, the silent generation of almost all the rock stars and young leaders of the 1960s, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Jimmy Page, Joan Baez, Bill Alinsky and Bernadette Dohrn, Jane Fonda, The Chicago Seven, Janis Joplin, Bob Seeger, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Van Morrison, Jim Morrison and so on, just about everyone that a person thinks was a boomer during the 1960s, was not a boomer at all.