I am sick and tired of the baby boomers.

[Anonymous]

There is a huge portion of the population who haven't saved for retirement because they just can't. They live paycheck to paycheck, just hoping to be able to afford the electric bill. They work hard, but in jobs that don't provide them with any retirement or decent healthcare. Everything costs more these days. We personally make decent livings, but our retirement fund is entirely out of pocket. We consider ourselves lucky to have anything saved, because so many people just don't. And with the news today about half of people living in or near poverty, I don't forsee good things ahead.

This isn't a slam against any generation, just a general statement of how sad and bleak all of our futures may be if we don't face facts. I'm tired of the politicians kicking the can down the road for so long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I'm a boomer and worked for every single thing I've ever had. Our generation didn't feel entitled to things we couldn't afford. Now, everyone has a cell phone, computer, tivo, cable, etc. Get a second job if you can't afford things...that's what we did.

+1

YES!!!! I was 25 before I had my first computer and my first cell phone.

yes! But that might be because they weren't invented yet!! LOL!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The WWII generation is to blame. They put Ss and Medicare into place. They had lots of kids. The boomers did nothing wrong except be born and then decide to have fewer children. It's not their fault that there are so many of them.

Gen Xers we have been voting for 20 years. It's time to stop blaming and take responsibility for our country. We font vote enough and we don't take this issue seriously when we go to vote. We are complaining but acting like victims. It's kind of pathetic really.

Don't be ridiculous. Elections in the United States are pretty much a pure expression of the Id of Baby Boomers. This will be even more true over the next 10-20 years because the retired and elderly vote in even greater numbers than the population as a whole. Finally, when they're dead at the end of that period, our politics will hopefully go through an evolutionary leap.

Of course Baby Boomers aren't to blame for their raw numbers, but whether they're to blame for their epic narcissism and complacency is an open question. Pretty much at every single stage of their lives: whether they were fighting so that only the poor and minorities would be drafted in their teens in the late 60s, or fighting for consequence-free andro-centric sex in their twenties in the 70s, or the elevation of greed to a religion in their thirties in the 80s, or their efforts to pervert Chrstianity into some sort of right-wing self-help parody of itself in their forties in the 90s, to the Teabagging support of the security state in the 2000s, it's one long cluster-fuck that they should rightly be held to account for. The sooner they're off booed off the stage, the better for each of us, for our country, and for the world at large.

Like so often happens in literature, the Greatest Generation gave birth to a prodigal son, and there's no sign of the wisdom that comes with age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The WWII generation is to blame. They put Ss and Medicare into place. They had lots of kids. The boomers did nothing wrong except be born and then decide to have fewer children. It's not their fault that there are so many of them.

Gen Xers we have been voting for 20 years. It's time to stop blaming and take responsibility for our country. We font vote enough and we don't take this issue seriously when we go to vote. We are complaining but acting like victims. It's kind of pathetic really.

Don't be ridiculous. Elections in the United States are pretty much a pure expression of the Id of Baby Boomers. This will be even more true over the next 10-20 years because the retired and elderly vote in even greater numbers than the population as a whole. Finally, when they're dead at the end of that period, our politics will hopefully go through an evolutionary leap.

Of course Baby Boomers aren't to blame for their raw numbers, but whether they're to blame for their epic narcissism and complacency is an open question. Pretty much at every single stage of their lives: whether they were fighting so that only the poor and minorities would be drafted in their teens in the late 60s, or fighting for consequence-free andro-centric sex in their twenties in the 70s, or the elevation of greed to a religion in their thirties in the 80s, or their efforts to pervert Chrstianity into some sort of right-wing self-help parody of itself in their forties in the 90s, to the Teabagging support of the security state in the 2000s, it's one long cluster-fuck that they should rightly be held to account for. The sooner they're off booed off the stage, the better for each of us, for our country, and for the world at large.

Like so often happens in literature, the Greatest Generation gave birth to a prodigal son, and there's no sign of the wisdom that comes with age.

*Standing Ovation*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can never find an ice flow when you need one.

you mean ice floe, as long as we're critiquing grammar and spelling

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can never find an ice flow when you need one.

you mean ice floe, as long as we're critiquing grammar and spelling

I think "ice flow" was hip-hop slang for a really chilled out rap style.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can never find an ice flow when you need one.

you mean ice floe, as long as we're critiquing grammar and spelling

Hey, I learned something from this thread!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I'm a boomer and worked for every single thing I've ever had. Our generation didn't feel entitled to things we couldn't afford. Now, everyone has a cell phone, computer, tivo, cable, etc. Get a second job if you can't afford things...that's what we did.

+1

YES!!!! I was 25 before I had my first computer and my first cell phone.

yes! But that might be because they weren't invented yet!! LOL!

This is the best you can do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"
My mom and dad are both Feds. When they retire in a few years in their late 50s they will receive around 80+% of their salary for the rest of their lives. Then on top of that, they both get an extra $20K in SS? They don't need it. I'm paying for part of it--and I can barely afford to make ends meet because my Fed job was cut last year.

How is this fair to anybody?

To get a pension at that level they must be under CSRS. If so, they won't get Social Security because they didn't pay into it. People hired after 1984 get a smaller Federal pension and Social Security, but they contributed to both.

[Anonymous]

Why are people so angry at their parents? I'm not.

[Anonymous]

PP - my parents aren't boomers - they were born in '38 and '42. My mom's younger brothers are CLASSIC boomers, however.

And to this PP...

Don't be ridiculous. Elections in the United States are pretty much a pure expression of the Id of Baby Boomers. This will be even more true over the next 10-20 years because the retired and elderly vote in even greater numbers than the population as a whole. Finally, when they're dead at the end of that period, our politics will hopefully go through an evolutionary leap.

Of course Baby Boomers aren't to blame for their raw numbers, but whether they're to blame for their epic narcissism and complacency is an open question. Pretty much at every single stage of their lives: whether they were fighting so that only the poor and minorities would be drafted in their teens in the late 60s, or fighting for consequence-free andro-centric sex in their twenties in the 70s, or the elevation of greed to a religion in their thirties in the 80s, or their efforts to pervert Chrstianity into some sort of right-wing self-help parody of itself in their forties in the 90s, to the Teabagging support of the security state in the 2000s, it's one long cluster-fuck that they should rightly be held to account for. The sooner they're off booed off the stage, the better for each of us, for our country, and for the world at large.

Like so often happens in literature, the Greatest Generation gave birth to a prodigal son, and there's no sign of the wisdom that comes with age.

This is just. fucking. awesome.
Love,
"Greens Fees" poster

[Anonymous]

Another xer here. Agree with pp and my parents are not boomers either,1935 and 1937.

[Anonymous]

I think those of you who are sick of the baby boomers should realize that the baby boomers still have the vote
As soon as they are the majority, they can vote for themselves all the priveledges they want. The younger voters will be the minority and will have to pay up

shake and quiver in fear....
the grinch is coming....
We are living longer and will not die.... but will continue to vote......

[Anonymous]

NP here. DH's parents recently asked us for $25K to help cover their bills. They have investments but don't want to see them because they "don't want to sell at a loss." They own two homes and live well above their means. FIL retired at 59 and does not seem capable of finding another job.

It sucked to tell them no, because they honestly thought that they were in a big bind. What they were incapable of seeing was that in giving them $25K now, it would open up a door to a room that we are not capable of sustaining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think those of you who are sick of the baby boomers should realize that the baby boomers still have the vote
As soon as they are the majority, they can vote for themselves all the priveledges they want. The younger voters will be the minority and will have to pay up

shake and quiver in fear....
the grinch is coming....
We are living longer and will not die.... but will continue to vote......

Sigh. Yes, yes, we've already been over that.

The problem with US politics over the period from 1980-Present is that you *have* been voting. The fact that the current GOP has gone batshit insane is a symptom of your getting older and crazier. If the American Experiment can somehow hold its shit together for another decade, the damage you guys have inflicted might start to heal itself. There's light at the end of the tunnel.