[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.

[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.

[Windcatcher]

We'll outlive them someday...

Gen X

[Popocatapetl]

All Boomers are not equal. The early Boomers and the late Boomers are far different than the middle Boomers in many ways. The late Boomers, in terms of personality, are a lot more like Generation X’ers. This is because the middle Boomers “muddied the water” which the late Boomers were expected to drink.

In fact, a lot of the late Boomers despised the 1960s, the Hippies, and all the filth and squalor the middle Boomers left in their wake. Not just in the 1960s, but in the ‘70s and ‘80s as well. The middle Boomers were always the “big bulge” that got what it wanted, leaving the bill for the late Boomers and the Gen-X’ers to pay.

So when the middle Boomers get too old and corrupt to keep power, the late Boomers will join with everybody else in sticking it to the old buggers. Maybe team up and send them down to retirement and nursing homes in Mexico, so we can finally be rid of them.

[popdonnelly]

As a baby boomer, I say to the fellow members of my generation, “Get over your damn selves!”

[FightThePower!]

They can’t die soon enough.

[theymakemesick]

"The authors actually break the boomer generation down not by age, but by six segments, everything from Straight Arrows, about one-third of boomers who are "driven by traditional values and religion," to Re-Activists, about 15% of boomers who "are ready to join campaigns in support of social causes." In between there are Due Diligents who "think ahead and plan for the worst;" Maximizers, the quintessential boomers who "want to do as much as possible and get the most from life;" Sideliners, who are "private, self-contained and undemanding;" and Diss-Contenteds who "see social problems they would like to fix, and their sympathies are with the protesters."

Brilliant! There is no way they could pigeon-hole any other generation into those exact same groups! /major s

[Mr Inviso]

All I can say is “May it pass quickly”

God save us all.

[Myrddin]

Most boomers have arrived just in time to enjoy "defined contribution" e.g. 401K self-funded retirements while bearing an enormous tax burden created by socialists (social security, medicare). Many never made enough to properly save for retirement. Their parents enjoyed a comfortable retirement based on "defined benefits". Some of those "defined benefits" are funded from the taxes laid on the boomers and succeeding generations. The consequence is that many "boomers" are going to keep working to cover the basic necessities of food, clothing, shelter and medical expenses. Many will never have the luxury of retiring as their parents did in the prior generations.

[Radix]

Boomers (I am one) have no legacy, no Creed, few significant accomplishments, and a pattern of spoiled bratness.

The dumbest voters in history. No changes in the Constitution can reasonably be attributed to Boomers. Thus, my grandfather had better representation in the Congress than I ever knew. My kids will be even worse off when it comes to representation.

The 435 Congress critters supposedly speak for 300 million Americans now. Almost 100 years ago, 435 Congressmen represented something close to half that population, or fewer.

I feel gypped, though I pay more for the privilege.

Even the 18 year old voting Right was given to this spoiled brat generation by our parents, who gave most of the slouches anything that they asked for.

Now the crybaby generation is going to screaming to the kids about their social security $$$$.

Thanks fellow Boomers for allowing the parents and grandparents to soon be sticking it up the a$$ of our kids.

This (our) Boomer generation ......in a word...sucks. On the other hand, the so called "greatest generation" is probably more fraudulent. Their best went down in the War, and hacks at the NEWS Business are busy making dough.

Color me cynical.