http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/babyboomers/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:03:24 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418077/posts The decade ahead could be a brutal one for America's unemployed - and for people with jobs hoping for pay raises. At best, it could take until the middle of the decade for the nation to generate enough jobs to drive down the unemployment rate to a normal 5 or 6 percent and keep it there. At worst, that won't happen until much later - perhaps not until the next decade. The deepest and most enduring recession since the 1930s has battered America's work force. The unemployed number 15.4 million. The jobless rate is 10 percent. More than 7 million... The Daily Bell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418077/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:03:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411682/posts I am a baby boomer, which is to say my life has coincided with turbulent and awesome times. From the Cold War to Vietnam, from Watergate to Monicagate, through the horrors of 9/11 and the stunning lifestyle advances, my generation's era has been historic and exciting. Yet for all the drama and change, the years only occasionally instilled in me the sensation I feel almost constantly now. I am afraid for my country. I am afraid -- actually, certain -- we are losing the heart and soul that made America unique in human history. Yes, we have enemies, but the... www.nypost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411682/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:48:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407540/posts Socialized Medicine: The administration's own health department, in a devastating analysis, warns of rising costs, shrinking benefits and a long-term health care "death spiral." "Reform" has been pronounced dead. When even the liberal Washington Post warns that congressional Democrats, in trying to save their increasingly unpopular health reform bill, are sneakily making it more like European-style socialized medicine, it means the death watch is on. Letting 55-year-olds "buy in" to the fiscally doomed Medicare program "could be a bigger step toward a single-payer system than the milquetoast public option plans rejected by Senate moderates as too disruptive of the private... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407540/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:03:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398145/posts My generation created the sexual revolution - and it has been wrecking the lives of women ever since By Bel Mooney 02nd December 2009 I experienced first-hand the impact of the sexual revolution, and the sweeping changes it wrought between men and women. The sexual pressure that came with free love has gone from liberation to degredation. I'm always amazed at the way the liberal Left is eager to make excuses for any dubious results of their progressive ideas. Yet the damaging consequences of that Sixties revolution are obvious in the society we now live in - ranging from the... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398145/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 03:13:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392306/posts 11/21/09 London, England – Okay! We’ll say what we’ve been thinking… …that our children are going to spit on our graves! First, Americans made a colossal mistake in the ’90s and the ’00s. They partied…they spent…they borrowed…running up huge debts in the private sector. Most kids could forget about inheriting anything from their parents; the geezers spent it years ago. The boomer generation also made a mess of the biggest success story in world history – the United States of America. In the ’60s and ’70s – when boomers matured and began to take over – the US was still... dailyreckoning. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392306/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:28:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2372268/posts The ‘Me Generation’: A Generation of Thieves by Evan Sayet My generation – the “Me Generation” – and those like us have stolen every last penny from our parent’s savings accounts (Social Security). We’ve used that money to make ourselves appear successful and to vote ourselves more and more things we claimed to be “entitled” to. When that money ran out, those of us who followed the mantra we were taught in the Leftist run public schools, “If it feels good, do it,” simply stole our children’s money, mortgaging their future for our personal comforts. We’ve borrowed so much against... bighollywood.breitbart.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2372268/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:20:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355621/posts They represent a migration that turns conventional wisdom on its head. Urban planners have until now proceeded on the assumption that retiring baby boomers will downsize to a high-rise and spend their days lapping lattes and taking the streetcar to the art museum. A lot of them will. But new data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture says baby boomers will head to the country in big numbers, in the Northwest changing the face of rural Oregon, Washington and Idaho. And it's not just because the 83 million boomer generation is the largest in U.S. history and all of their... The Oregonian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355621/posts#comment Tue, 6 Oct 2009 00:57:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324186/posts The early baby boomers may be known as the generation of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. But it turns out, they're hitting the bottle pretty hard as they age, as well. And that portends significant alcohol-related health problems ahead as those mid-lifers become seniors. A new study finds that among men and women 50 to 64 years old, almost 1 in 4 men and 1 in 10 women is a "binge" drinker -- meaning that at some point in the last 30 days, he or she has downed four (for women) or five (for men) servings of alcohol in... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324186/posts#comment Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:48:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323050/posts Millions of older people face shrinking Social Security checks next year, the first time in a generation that payments would not rise. The trustees who oversee Social Security are projecting there won’t be a cost of living adjustment (COLA) for the next two years. That hasn’t happened since automatic increases were adopted in 1975. By law, Social Security benefits cannot go down. Nevertheless, monthly payments would drop for millions of people in the Medicare prescription drug program because the premiums, which often are deducted from Social Security payments, are scheduled to go up slightly. HeraldNet/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323050/posts#comment Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:00:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2322725/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baby boomers, now well into middle age, are still turning on to illegal drugs, doubling the rates of illicit drug use for the older generation, according to U.S. government statistics released on Wednesday. The rates of people aged 50 to 59 who admit to using illicit drugs in the past year nearly doubled from 5.1 percent in 2002 to 9.4 percent in 2007 while rates among all other age groups are the same or decreasing, the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reported. "These findings show that many in the Woodstock generation continue to use... reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2322725/posts#comment Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:14:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319488/posts Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319488/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:05:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2318210/posts The Baby Boomers and those of the post sixties generation are joyfully celebrating the 40-year anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival which took place in 1969. Since then, the event has been glorified, glamorized, sensationalized and etched into the very fabric of our American consciousness and youth culture. This festival was the defining point against “the Establishment” and America’s core Judean/ Christian values. This festival was the brown acid of the radical Left’s agenda, whose goons in the reprobate (godless) music industry have steadily pushed the boundaries of morality over the past 40 years. In the wake of Woodstock and... The Ignorant Fishermen Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2318210/posts#comment Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:07:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316604/posts It’s time to kiss grandma goodbye. Do it while you can, especially if she is sick. I am not being facetious here. The healthcare debate is deadly serious for seniors and those who will need a greater amount of health care in the coming years. People approaching retirement age will be obliged to start planning for death soon, and the government is more than ready to help them. According to this wicked bill, HR 3200, there are generous provisions setting the stage to weed out the weak, infirm and unfit and make room for the fit, all at the government’s... ce http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316604/posts#comment Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:24:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316113/posts The editor of the Veterans of Foreign Wars' national magazine thinks the media have been irresponsible to throw around the term "defining a generation" as we near the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. In an article titled "GIs Died While Woodstock Rocked," Richard K. Kolb challenges giving mythological status to the (in)famous concert held Aug. 15-18, 1969. He takes umbrage at concertgoers frolicking in mud while an equal number of soldiers (following in their fathers' footsteps) were crawling through mud to protect the celebrants' freedom to party. Granted, Pete Townshend's guitar smashing, Country Joe's "We're-All-Gonna-Die Rag,"... Marshall County Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316113/posts#comment Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:21:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312129/posts Imagine lying in some government-run hospital, hospice or nursing home many years from now. Imagine languishing unattended for days in soiled sheets, suffering from hunger and thirst, covered with bed sores, your flesh aboil with untreated infections. Imagine living in fear of resentful, underpaid health aides who take out their anger on you and abuse you. And imagine spending your final moments on earth in the company of a government health care worker with a syringe, who injects you with a lethal cocktail. President Obama’s health proposals have the potential to turn this nightmare into a reality for millions... WhistleBlower Magazine (WorldNetDaily) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312129/posts#comment Sun, 9 Aug 2009 22:22:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2311334/posts Friday, August 7, at 10 p.m. ET/Replay 1 a.m. ET "On the Record" host Greta Van Susteren hosts "Summer of Evil: The Manson Murders" on FOX News Channel. Forty years ago, a two-night murder rampage in Los Angeles by the followers of an aspiring rock star and cult leader named Charles Manson terrified the Hollywood community and made headlines across the world. In the last four decades, the savage murders of a beautiful actress named Sharon Tate and six others at the hands of a "family" of hippies have taken on mythical proportions. The story that shocked the world has... FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2311334/posts#comment Sat, 8 Aug 2009 14:43:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2304195/posts BusinessWeek has an interesting cover story this week about The Leaner Baby Boomer Economy. Calling Mercedes the "the quintessential boomer brand", BusinessWeek estimates that Mercedes will sell a third fewer cars in America. The article also notes efforts by companies like Nordstrom (JWN), Starwood Hotels & Resorts (HOT), Outback Steakhouse, BMW and Target (TGT) to offer value shopping or "cheap chic" in an effort to reach out to generations X and Y. By now most are familiar with this new wave of frugality. Thus the real story is not article itself but the is the easy to miss sidebar statistics... Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2304195/posts#comment Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:49:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299527/posts It's now more than 50 years since the revolution began. Sexual "liberation" has been endlessly ballyhooed by the national media, promoted in the movies, embraced by Playboy guys and Cosmo girls as a freedom more delicious than Eden's apple. No American under 40 can honestly remember a time when sex on TV was taboo, when "living together" meant married, when "gay" meant happy, and when almost every child lived with both parents.   If truth be told, the revolution has been a disaster. Before the push to loosen America's sexual mores really got under way in the 1950s, the... ic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299527/posts#comment Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:05:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2291511/posts Thus might the next Fourth Turning end in apocalypse – or glory. The nation could be ruined, its democracy destroyed, and millions of people scattered or killed. Or America could enter a new golden age, triumphantly applying shared values to improve the human condition. The rhythms of history do not reveal the outcome of the coming Crisis; all they suggest is the timing and dimension. Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning Raging Debate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2291511/posts#comment Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:03:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2291249/posts This one's going to blow baby boomers' minds. It concerns a little-known law dating to Elizabethan England suddenly being enforced with gusto in Pennsylvania. The law can force adult children to pay their parents' health-care costs. If Mom and Pop can't pay, you pay. If they have the money but refuse to pay, you pay. If you don't, watch your credit rating sink under the weight of a legal judgment that will haunt you for life. It happened to Don Grant. It can happen to you. The Havertown man is nearly 50 and struggling to pay his mortgage and $100,000... The Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2291249/posts#comment Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:29:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287745/posts There may be a silver lining in the black cloud hanging over our economy: America's abysmal personal savings rate has taken a turn for the better. Building on a steady increase in the personal savings rate — 2008's 1.8% increase, a 4.2% increase in 2009's first quarter and a 5.6% rise in April — the Commerce Department has reported that the U.S. personal savings rate climbed 6.9% in May. While still early, this could signal a dramatic return to a more normal personal savings rate. It could also have profound repercussions at home and abroad as both economies recalibrate away... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287745/posts#comment Wed, 8 Jul 2009 01:50:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2283430/posts WASHINGTON – There is a growing “religion gap” between older Americans and those under 30, according to a new Pew Research Center Social & Demographic Trends survey. The study released June 29 found that one-fourth of Americans ages 18-29 said they were atheists, agnostics or had no religion, while only 7 percent of those 65 and over described themselves that way. Eighteen percent of those ages 30-49 and 13 percent of those 50-64 fell into the no religion/atheist/agnostic category. At 7 percent, the under-30s also were more than twice as likely as those 65 and over (3 percent) to say... The Catholic Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2283430/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:14:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282079/posts WASHINGTON - From cell phones and texting to religion and manners, younger and older Americans see the world differently, creating the largest generation gap since the tumultuous years of the 1960s and the culture clashes over Vietnam, civil rights and women's liberation. A new study released Monday by the Pew Research Center found Americans of different ages increasingly at odds over a range of social and technological issues. It also highlights a widening age divide after last November's election, when 18- to 29-year-olds voted for Democrat Barack Obama by a 2-to-1 ratio. Almost eight in 10 people believe there is... One News Now http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282079/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:28:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2275324/posts Last weekend I attended my niece's high-school graduation from an upscale prep school in Washington, D.C. These are supposed to be events filled with joy, optimism and anticipation of great achievements. But nearly all the kids who stepped to the podium dutifully moaned about how terrified they are of America's future -- yes, even though Barack Obama, whom they all worship and adore, has brought "change they can believe in." A federal judge gave the commencement address and proceeded to denounce the sorry state of the nation that will be handed off to them. The enemy, he said, is the... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2275324/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:46:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272988/posts This year marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s start of the war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won. NYTimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272988/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:43:47 GMT