Get Used To It, America; It's a Boomers' World After All

JSOnline ^ | December 10, 2007 | Bill Glauber

[JamesP81]

bttt

[McLynnan]

"We don't want to put our name on a building," she says.

Donald Trump didn't get this message.

[PROCON]

Baby Boomer Ping!

[CaptainK]

As self absorbed as ever.

[Aggie Mama]

Gag me with a spoon.

[upchuck]

Let's not forget the "Bleeding Edge Boomers," those born 1943-1945.

Sideliners, who are "private, self-contained and undemanding;"

Yep, that's me ;)

[Joe 6-pack]

"It's not that boomers will necessarily live a lot longer, they're going to enjoy more years of an active old age," he says. "They're going to transform old age; it will be like a late middle age. It will keep many of them at the workplace."

IOW, many will simply never grow up.

[counterpunch]

Fred Thompson is pre-boomer, a member of the “Silent Generation”. They are the only generation prior to Gen-X never to have had a president. This is a civil rights issue! We have a moral obligation to elect Fred Thompson and right this historic wrong!

[ShadowDancer]

"I've sometimes described baby boomers as the Star Wars generation"

Except it's the wrong generation. Other than that, okay.

[ECM]

And my Dad, too :)

[Bobbisox]

I am a boomer! I feel we should toss all these crazy liberal boomers and RINOS out of office for their shear stupidity! If this is the best boomers can do, they can all go to hell!

FRED THOMPSON (true Conservative Federalist) - NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERIENCE (I’ll do whatever it takes to stop the bastards, include water-boarding) - 2ND AMENDMENT ADVOCATE (arm everyone and the criminals will back off) - SECURE THE BORDERS (starve the bastards out and they will go home) - LAW AND ORDER (enforcement first and foremost) - SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM (the program can’t sustain itself) - DEFEAT THE DEMOCRAT (any fool they put up) – TAX SIMPLIFICATION (choice for the tax payer) - PING!

[lightman]

Re-Activists, about 15% of boomers who "are ready to join campaigns in support of social causes."

Diss-Contenteds who "see social problems they would like to fix, and their sympathies are with the protesters."

I'm trying to figure out whether Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson is a Re-Activist or a Diss-Contented.

[Alissa]

Rush Limbaugh is a boomer. Don’t dump the baby with the washwater. I’m a boomer, who has been “reformed.” Our contemporay conservatives, i.e. Bill Bennett, Oliver North, etc. and many more are conservative. What’s different than our parents who voted in FDR?

[RWR8189]

Obama a boomer?

His mother was born in 1942, I don’t think so.

[Kay Ludlow]

"We don't want to put our name on a building," she says."

Hmmm. I know a lot of leading edge boomers (I'm trailing end myself) who aren't necessarily saying they want a building, but are sure as heck thinking about how they'll be remembered and what their legacy can be. With the number of human secularists, you know they aren't going to count on meeting their maker as the next stage - they're more worried that Larry King is right and that you exist as long as someone remembers you...

[Windcatcher]

We'll outlive them someday...

Gen X

[Kay Ludlow]

Obama a boomer? His mother was born in 1942, I don’t think so.

I believe the definition of the Baby Boom is those born from 1946 (end of WWII) through 1964 (the year the Pill became available). His mother would've been 19 in 1961, so he could've been born in 61 which would make him a boomer.

[tacticalogic]

What’s different than our parents who voted in FDR?

Indeed. The "boomers" are the first generation to grow up under the New Deal, told that there was no problem or need that federal programs and bueaucracies couldn't remedy or satisfy, and that they had a right to expect them to do it. People complain about the "hippies" as if they had just appeared one day out of thin air.

[JSDude1]

And this is why my parents gen is the most selfish ever (not saying they were, or that ALL are), but why are so many Millennial and Xers the way we were “selfishness” especially in marriage! GUARANTEED.