Posted on 02/11/2015 5:38:21 AM PST by SJackson
I agree with Daniel Greenfield so often I worry I’m a groupie... So this is comforting - I like Jon Stewart. He’s funny and insightful... Yes, he’s liberal but he’s not a liar like Brian Williams. And he’s not stupid like 90% of CNN...
Feel better after dropping that load?
Well . . . Yeah.
I wasn’t the guy that tried to diss X’ers and Millenials.
Sucky part is that what I said was true.
In 2008, there was $64T in CDS/MBS debt to unwind. That number, with all the other debt piled on top, got bigger, not smaller - even with ‘extend and pretend’.
Anyway, banks in Europe are charging negative interest because there’s no where to park the money where investors think it’ll be safe.
Moral of the story - start slinging crap about generations, you better check your driver’s license first. If the last two numbers are less than 64, then it’s best to just keep the comments in the cozy confines of your head.
“I wasn’t the guy that tried to diss X’ers and Millenials.”
He was being unfair but that’s little excuse for you to act in kind. For one thing ‘Boomers are no more all alike than your generation is.
The current politics of big government and big spending got going with Lyndon Johnson and no Boomer was old enough to vote for him. But we were all old enough to vote for Ronald Reagan and plenty of us did.
I don’t see how you think Boomers are responsible for the CDS and MBS debacle. Most of us bought houses years ago when qualifying for a loan meant putting up real money. Somehow I think that the majority of those playing casino in the real estate market beginning around 1998 were a good deal younger.
The only loser here is some civilian coward like you who never wore an uniform.
Again, screw you.
Leni
Bam!!! Ouch!!
Satire is harmless only to those who have the intellect to know that it is satire. That leaves out a major part of the population who take it as truth. The harm to every part of our society that results from that situation can’t be overstated. It will be our downfall.
I'm a woman, but I say with all sincerity: he didn't need Oprah to capture the airhead vote. It's where they're at. We have gone from Martha Washington and Abigail Adams as role models to Kim Kardashian and Mylie Cyrus.
Girl, please.
Ok, we abandon the field to the enemy.
Whoops, wrong again. USCG. Thank you for your service, sincerely.
What we left you with was a free country. We came home from that bloody war, went to work in the factories, on the farms and in the shops and restaurants. We worked all our lives to bring up children who would reap the benefits that so many of us gave our very lives to secure for them. All we asked was that when we became old, that those later generations would care for us as we had cared for them and had cared for our own parents.
Instead, in our love and zeal that our children never experience A Great Depression, A World War or any of the things we had to endure, we brought up generations of selfish, lazy, perpetually immature brats who value nothing, not even the sanctity of human life. Self is their god and they care for nothing else. Millions of them are still living under the roofs and in the basements of parents and grandparents who have little left that hasn’t been siphoned off by their shiftless, spoiled offspring and grandchildren. The majority of twenty somethings are still living off the parents and grandparents that they call “Locusts”.
We have so insulated them from the harsh realities of life that they think of physical labor as a punishment and any kind of work that may soil their lily white hands as beneath them. Instead, they demand that we furnish them with so called “higher education” where they are taught that right and wrong are relative and that reality is anything they wish it to be. Oh how hard those pipedreams are going to die when all the producers have died off!
Yes, we made a mistake that they will have to pay for and pay dearly! In our love for them, we didn’t demand that they learn the basics of living and that some truths are immutable and can’t be changed. What our parents taught us out of love; my generation withheld out of love from its offspring. What we learned they will have to learn in the same harsh, hellish school of experience. May G-d bless their poor self-centered, clueless little hearts.
The WWII generation left us with a free country, but the Boomers?
I have no issue with the WWII generation. My grandfather lied to get into the Navy when he was 17. Before there were SEALs he was putting bombs on the bottom of Japanese ships with a pair of flippers and a mask/snorkel.
I get that generation, and they made massive sacrifices so that their kids wouldn’t have to do what they had to.
The boomers squandered that and put the cost of it onto their kids, grandkids, etc.
My issue is that boomers aren’t in a position to criticize X’ers or Millenials.
As for the country being free, you really buy that right now? You think we are as free today as we were when the WWII generation handed the keys to the boomers? I think reasonable people would disagree with that assessment of ‘free’.
This is the boomer’s show right now. They’re in charge. I think the jury is out on whether what we are going to be left with when they are finally out to pasture is going to be something a reasonably prudent person would call ‘free’.
At the present time, our greatest enemy is us. That’s probably not going to change any time soon. However, if you think humor will work; I sincerely hope someone can be found to deliver it in such an entertaining manner as to get through to the younger generations.
“This is the boomer’s show right now. They’re in charge. I think the jury is out on whether what we are going to be left with when they are finally out to pasture is going to be something a reasonably prudent person would call ‘free’.”
Typical. Waiting around to see what you’re going to be “left with.” The mindset of your generation and mine is poles apart. The definition of “free” is a whole other thing for you than it is for me. Instead of waiting around to see what grandma and mama and daddy “leave” you with, why don’t you get started on making this country what you want it to be instead of whining about what’s going to be “left” to you. As for being “put out to pasture” I should be so lucky. I took care of my mom and dad for ten years before they passed. If it’s up to the selfish, sniveling, spoiled and perpetually adolescent youth of today, I’ll be euthanized instead as a matter of law. Obama’s death panels are getting that ball rolling rather well.
As for Boomers; they certainly have a lot to answer for. They produced critical thinkers such as yourself.
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