Comments on: My generation: hatin’ on the boomers

By: football

football — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 11:16:56 +0000

In the end, you will have assigned 136 confidence points (16+15+14+.
Alabama will try to rebound from their loss to the Sooners and rank
fourth in the Sporting News college football preseason rankings.

Ole Miss and Mississippi State moving the Egg Bowl away
from Jackson, Miss.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:58:48 +0000

LostBayou: You're a little bit---well, lost. In the bayou or otherwise. Both the returning Vietnam soldiers themselves and the ones who spit on returning Vietnam soldiers (see this, by the way) were boomers. Boomers all. And the boomers today are actually one of the more conservative groups in the US, if you take the 2012 election as any evidence, since they voted Republican rather strongly. What's more, boomers did have to take the GREs, the LSATs, and all those other tests about which you complain. They did not invent them. Research is your friend. The GRE's, for example, were invented in 1949, and the LSATs around the same time (see this for the MCAT history). Blame the Greatest Generation, if you must blame someone.

By: LostBayou

LostBayou — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:43:05 +0000

genxap that is the reason for all the downsizing and outsourcing and it is the reason for all the expensive certifications and all the expensive tests that our generations have to take but the baby boomers didn’t. The reason is because the baby boomers resent us and they decided to compete against us. They were grandfathered into their jobs and when we came along they made it harder for us to get into those jobs. When we came along and tried to work beside them we were constantly told that all we have is “book smarts” and a “fancy education”. I have never seen a generation that is so willing to eat it’s young like the baby boomers!!!!

By: LostBayou

LostBayou — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:26:46 +0000

I definitely hate the baby boomers. So here’s one. I’m right here!!!!! I want to thank the baby boomers for all those expensive tests (LSATs, MCATs, GREs) that we now have to take. I also want to thank the baby boomers for all those expensive certifications that we now have to take. They didn’t have to take certifications and tests. The boomers were grandfathered into their jobs. Thanks for downsizing and outsourcing also baby boomers. The baby boomers didn’t want to go to war. In fact, they are afraid of dying. They spit on returning soldiers. Vietnam is the baby boomers ultimate mind fuck!!!!! Generation X-ers served in the military because the economy is so bad. I did eight years Active Duty Army. I despise all of you boomers. You are a generation of vipers!!!!!

By: genxap

genxap — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:55:00 +0000

Boomers grew up with affordable everything, assets, then they sold them off. Houses, then they bought them all up which raised prices through the roof. They enjoyed free education which later then charged an arm an a leg for a degree which was both necessary yet often useless. They use there numbers to silence any culture besides their own then assume they new generations have none. They enjoyed apprenticeships then refused to teach their children as they didn’t want the competition. They enjoyed a care free childhood, then create a police state that picks on kids. They had wholesome family lives then left gen x to fend for themselves as latch key kids that were raised by mtv more than whichever parent they were being shuffled between at the time. That’s if the kid was lucky enough to even know their Dad. Then as a final blow they will make sure all the money is gone when they die while they suck more and more from medicare because they need their money for their next trip to Europe, to prove how young they still are.

By: Rick Caird

Rick Caird — Mon, 06 May 2013 22:53:33 +0000

Most of the programs the “boomer critics” complain about were actually put in place by the “Greatest Generation” or earlier by FDR. The most expensive ones, Medicare and Medicaid came out of the LBJ administration. The from end of the Boomers were only 18 at the time. When anyone tried to get control of SS, Medicare, or Medicaid, the Greatest Generation raised holy hell. Look for Rostenkowski being chased down the street by angry Medicare recipients. That was not the Boomers. That was the “Greatest Generation”.

Unfortunately, most of those criticizing the Boomers are historically challenged. BTW, Clinton was the first Boomer President.

By: Ira

Ira — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:18:14 +0000

Pat, three comments above, makes an excellent point. Also, this from earlier should be repeated:

J.J. formerly Jimmy J. Says: May 4th, 2013 at 6:04 pm
As a member of the silent generation (sg), I think that my generation as well as the Greatest Generation (GG) deserve some of the blame for what has happened. GG and sg were the profs and administrators who folded like tissue paper before the demands of the early Baby Boomers in the colleges in the late 60s. That failure to stand up for maintaining an orderly society, obeying the law, and respecting tradition was the beginning of the slide toward a more permissive, less law abiding society that we have today. Apparently some of the GG and sg were actually com-simps who actually agreed that it was “Better to be Red than dead.” Most knew that the Communsts had a bead on South Vietnam but were willing to repeat the fiction that the Vietcong were “agrarian reformers.” Most of what the Baby Boomers learned about politics, social sciences and ethics they learned from GG and sg profs. But then the Baby Boomers became the profs and it has only gotten worse. IMO, there’s plenty of blame to go around.

A short version of a story I (a Boomer who was a college student from '66-'71) often tell:

Professor (making an off-subject comment): "Our dropping atomic bombs on Japan was inhumane and criminal." Me: "Sir, where were you on the day you found out that the first atomic bomb had been dropped?" Professor: "On a ship heading for a Pacific island to train for the invasion of Japan." Me: "What were your thoughts about the bomb then?" Professor: "Getting back to the subject of my lecture . . . ."

By: raf

raf — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:10:19 +0000

Glad to see other people pointing out that the real instigators of the social disintegration blamed on the Boomers was led by the previous generation, who are still around and still admired for some reason.

By: raf

raf — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:08:40 +0000

Who are the beneficiaries of, for example, Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid today? The old folks, sure, but also their children, who have been relieved of the responsibility for caring for their parents. This was true of the Boomers, too (of whom I am one). I did not have to support my mother in her old age, so I was able to contribute to my own 401k/IRA. I never expected to receive SS benefits, but I may get a few years, I suppose. What will annoy me will be the assault on my retirement “savings” to fund those who didn’t bother.

By: Pat

Pat — Mon, 06 May 2013 03:31:10 +0000

The boomers didn’t make America Socialist. Their parents and grand-parents did that. They gave FDR free reign and we are still paying for it today. That inter-generational Ponzi scheme, aka Social Security, is still going strong and still going broke.

Be that as it may, the young folk of today, the ones who elected Obama know not what they have done. They have destroyed their own futures. The debt Obama has incurred on his watch is a future tax increase for future generations. They will be drowned in debt from their student loans and from tax obligations imposed on them from the past.

I might have said sorry, but they voted Obama.