I used to bash baby boomers.

As I’ve grown and become more wise – I see generalizations in each generation 🙂

Ha!

But we are all individuals right?

But let’s agree to this… This country has gotten extremely generous with it’s benefits…

There are hundreds of federal programs to help somebody who is poor.

For goodness sakes – there are over 180 illiteracy programs.

You’d think that if somebody wanted to read – they would!!!

But you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.

You can type words to a liberal but you cannot make him/her see the common sense (or error of their ways)

That characterization only applies to the 30% who identify themselves as ideological liberal.

The rest of us have served and supported our country, our communities and our families faithfully.

Many of us have worked hard to raise children who will likely do the same.

sure is…

they had the largest mass of people who could have ended it in the most prosperous times of humankind.

if they wouldnt end it who do you think should have? the way too small populations who cant amass enough votes to opposed the boomers?

demographics…

http://www.ssa.gov/history/chrono.html

take some time, go through it, and you will note if you go through the details, that the lid was blown off by the boomers who were way too large to ever collect

ESPECIALLY when they decided not to have kids, and so sealed the deal.

that is, their failure to stop the program when they decided not to have kids that would fund it, would have been responsible.

but no.. they decided to accept welfare, accept enslaving the future to their wants, self exterminating their family lines, and tons of other things. like changed the school curriculum from what they had, to hide the history they didnt want known.

look at this graph and tell me how anyone after them could change anything?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S.BirthRate.1909.2003.png

Landon Jones, who coined the term “baby boomer” in his book Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation, defined the span of the baby-boom generation as extending from 1946 to 1964, when annual births declined below 4,000,000

add 18 years to 1946 and what do you get?

the summer of love and the destruction of the american state starts…

at that point they started to bribe the people with their own money since these boomers tuned in turned on and dropped out of society.

their CHOICE…

Seventy-six million American children were born between 1945 and 1964

“almost from the time they were conceived, Boomers were dissected, analyzed, and pitched to by modern marketers, who reinforced a sense of generational distinctiveness.”

Baby Boomers control over 80% of personal financial assets

[and how is everyone else with only 20% supposed to oppose the communist generation?]

more than 50% of discretionary spending power

They are responsible for more than half of all consumer spending, buy 77% of all prescription drugs, 61% of OTC medication, and spend $500 million on vacations per year and 80% of all leisure travel

One of the contributions made by the Boomer generation appears to be the expansion of individual freedom. Boomers often are associated with the civil rights movement, the feminist cause in the 1970s, gay rights, handicapped rights, and the right to privacy

yes, the boomers invited the subversionists in, made them warm and comfortable and we are now going to suffer their asinine choices in which they thought that they new more..

never trust anyone over 30
if it feels good, do it
tune in, turn on, drop out

and who made drugs and that culture normed?
[and then who later to fix the problems they caused created civil forfieture, militarized police, and so on and so forth]

time to read history again in detail

they all had other choices, they went with the bonobo herd version of future humanity and raced to the bottom..

nope… it was the boomers, period. they were and are the ones that erased the culture of their parents so that the people you mention that acme later had no such edumacation.

sorry.
they are the generation that were mostly traitors.

it was they who decided communism was what and where to go, made it cool, fasionable, and facilitated it all.

feminists being the leading vanguard…
but i guess we would have to belive their writings the way we believe hitlers mein kampf. that is, after the fact and its all done we then get they were serious and that this is what women made (they certainly didnt stop it, oppose it, or even allow a open discussion without name calling, and tons of other things).

just cause the powerless turned out to have power doesnt mean they are absolved due to ignorance.

life dont care, we dont get second chances, and they sold us down the river for a nothing and a dream they will never get.

just readl lenin, marx, engels, and all those whom they quote… and the progressives and others.

after all, i remember the 60s when the loose hippy chicks were having sex to convert the guys. do you?

sorry… the ones that did it did it… and no one gets a free ticket out for any reason unless they opposed it from day one…

being duped is no excuse, this is life, its serious and as a society we cant afford such idiots anyway. can we?

i dont see anyone fighting against this other than some guys… the girls dont want it gone, they want to pretend they can talk it to a new form while the leaders use them.

put it ALL together on the table at once and there is zero squirm room. only thing you hear are claims of no responsibility, which is keen since thats what the ideologues offered.

turns out they were responsible, gullible, traitorous, and more…

if there is any history in 300 years they will not be remembered kindly, and if not, we will all be slaves disconnected in time with no begining, no end, just a permanent thing like a japanese feudal state where no one changes their born positions

What was done during LBJ’s tenure was very very bad.

The moral of the story….Work hard for prosperity and pray you never get there.

Though technically a Boomer (born in 1960), I share with many late Boomers an experience that is the inverse of texexec’s: cohorts ahead of me clogging up organizations and pushing up prices. I have no great affection for them as a group, and I suspect we will wait in vain for great leaders to emerge from among them. Still, none of us ask to be born when we are.

Perhaps we need to believe in a myth of the Lost Arcadia, a time of innocence when we were taken care of, a time of childhood. And there is something perpetually childish about the story of the Baby Boomers in popular imagination, including their stories about themselves. Maybe that’s what Joni Mitchell (born 1943) meant: “And we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.”

Time to grow up. There is a job of work to be done, and if we are going back to the garden, it had best be with shovels in our hands.

In the end, the boomers are just a bubble that cracks the inherent flaws in the liberal fantasy economics. That doesn’t mean the the boomer productive years were distinctly lacking in infrastructure investment but also characterized by a major shift in US economics with the easing of world trade.