Why does the younger DCUM majority hate Boomers so much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not stereotyping people based on age. It's criticizing the REAITY of what this country has become under the Boomers' watch.

Let's have a little perspective on the "boomer watch" I was born in 1964, which makes me a boomer by one year.

*In 1969 a boomer walked on the moon
*In 1968 two were assasinated for being brave enough to try to change their world
*between 1969 and 1974 thousands of boomers left the country because they refused to be part of an unjust war. Because of them we have an all volunteer military and you can "travel the world" not go get killed in Afghanistan
* In the 1950's we legalized teh sale of the birth control pill, triggering the beginning of the sexual revolution. You are welcome !
* We invented Rock and Roll, the music industry, the sports industry
* we got rid of bill boards lining every inch of our nations highways
* we made sure black people could vote without getting hanged for trying
* we stopped calling them "negroes" and "colored people"
* we demanded equal sports for girls in all schools
* we put the fear of being sued into every pig operating against women in the work force
* we changed rape laws
* we got rid of the electric chair
* we started the exercize , fitness, and health food craze
* we invented the leisure skiing industry
* we eliminated small pox from the face of the earth and slowed the AIDS epidemic to a crawl
* we invented the cell phone, the computer and the internet



KISS OUR ASS

[Anonymous]

This thread is just about children being critical of their parents.

They haven't matured.

They feel warm & fuzzy toward their grandparents ("The Greatest Generation" cough, cough)

[Anonymous]

A history of child labor in the US:

http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/us_history.html

And you're convinced that going to daycare is going to cause the ruination of our society?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is just about children being critical of their parents.

They haven't matured.

They feel warm & fuzzy toward their grandparents ("The Greatest Generation" cough, cough)

I agree. Every generation hates the one before, at least for a while. Just wait, Millenials.

[Anonymous]

I'm 43 and I don't feel warm and fuzzy toward any particular generation. I think that each generation is selfish, unfortunately in the last 50 years we've had new technologies that have allowed our selfishness to spoil the country and the world. DDT, climate change, overpopulation, growing income inequality. These are very serious problems and we've done too little for too long. As someone who's been voting for 25 years, I blame myself too. But surely you can understand younger people looking at us and feeling like we sucked all of the juice out of life and left them with the empty husk?

[Anonymous]

Bill Maher got at the heart of the issue.

Federal yearly spending per child: $3,822.
Federal yearly spending per senior: $25,455.

That is a big reason why people are angry at the Boomers. As another PP said, they hold most of the assets/independent wealth and yet they also receive the most in Federal subsidies.

I don't know, but has our country, our government, ever put so much of its investment in the elderly and not in the future (youth, job creation, innovation)?

Younger generations see that under the Boomers, pensions have been phased out, the cost of education has gone up above and beyond normal inflation, and even an advanced education doesn't ensure a job.

It's not about hatred. It's about angst.

I don't hate Boomers. And there are things that irritate me about pretty much every generation. Because let's face it, people are people. But right now, there is definitely an unequal distribution of resources in favor of the aging Boomers over all other generations. That causes tension and bitterness.

[Anonymous]

I'm all for increasing benefits to the young but talk to the Republicans and the Tea Party about it. I'm very concerned about the future of the young people I know who would have benefited enormously from greater assistance when they were growing up. But it's not liberal boomers who are cutting off the young.

[Anonymous]

*In 1968 two were assasinated for being brave enough to try to change their world

I assume you mean Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. Neither of those great men were Boomers, since they were both born in the 1920s.

Furthermore, Neil Armstrong was born in 1930, so he is likewise far from being a Boomer.

*In the 1950's we legalized teh sale of the birth control pill, triggering the beginning of the sexual revolution. You are welcome!

The oldest Boomer was 15 in "the 1950s" so your generation didn't have anything to do with this. The Pill wasn't fully legal in the U.S until Griswold vs. Connecticut in 1965, and I doubt that the 20-year-olds who were the oldest Boomers had anything to do with that, either.

But keep taking credit for the work of the Greatest Generation!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bill Maher got at the heart of the issue.

Federal yearly spending per child: $3,822.
Federal yearly spending per senior: $25,455.

That is a big reason why people are angry at the Boomers. As another PP said, they hold most of the assets/independent wealth and yet they also receive the most in Federal subsidies.

I don't know, but has our country, our government, ever put so much of its investment in the elderly and not in the future (youth, job creation, innovation)?

Younger generations see that under the Boomers, pensions have been phased out, the cost of education has gone up above and beyond normal inflation, and even an advanced education doesn't ensure a job.

It's not about hatred. It's about angst.

I don't hate Boomers. And there are things that irritate me about pretty much every generation. Because let's face it, people are people. But right now, there is definitely an unequal distribution of resources in favor of the aging Boomers over all other generations. That causes tension and bitterness.

+1. Boomers started as rebels, but have ended as the Entitled generation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not stereotyping people based on age. It's criticizing the REAITY of what this country has become under the Boomers' watch.

Let's have a little perspective on the "boomer watch" I was born in 1964, which makes me a boomer by one year.

*In 1969 a boomer walked on the moon
*In 1968 two were assasinated for being brave enough to try to change their world
*between 1969 and 1974 thousands of boomers left the country because they refused to be part of an unjust war. Because of them we have an all volunteer military and you can "travel the world" not go get killed in Afghanistan
* In the 1950's we legalized teh sale of the birth control pill, triggering the beginning of the sexual revolution. You are welcome !
* We invented Rock and Roll, the music industry, the sports industry
* we got rid of bill boards lining every inch of our nations highways
* we made sure black people could vote without getting hanged for trying
* we stopped calling them "negroes" and "colored people"
* we demanded equal sports for girls in all schools
* we put the fear of being sued into every pig operating against women in the work force
* we changed rape laws
* we got rid of the electric chair
* we started the exercize , fitness, and health food craze
* we invented the leisure skiing industry
* we eliminated small pox from the face of the earth and slowed the AIDS epidemic to a crawl
* we invented the cell phone, the computer and the internet



KISS OUR ASS

Don't you need to get back to the nursing home?

[Anonymous]

I was born in 1964, making me a tail-end boomer. For 35 years I have watched baby boomers go through stages of their lives as if they were the first people in history to do so. They are hard to like because so many of them are self-centered, self-congratulatory, self-righteous, lecturing, hectoring, judgmental hypocrites. You can make the case that the accomplishments of their generation are typical, considering that they include 75 million Americans born over a two-decade span. Take the birth control pill, for example, which had a huge impact on society, liberating millions of women sexually. The baby boomers point proudly to its introduction as another notch in their revolt against the repressed, Victorian society of their parents. Except that the doctor who developed the pill (hormone researcher Gregory Pincus) was born in 1903. The activist who waged the legal fight, which led to the pill's introduction in 1957, was born in the 1800s. The baby boomers portray themselves as the leaders of the sexual revolution, but it would more accurate to say that, in this case as in so many other cases, they indulged in the rewards brought to them by their parents and grandparents. What's so dislikable is not their pride but their lack of gratitude to -- and their contempt for -- the people who came before them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because we now have as adults the first generation not actually raised by their own parents but in daycare and we get to see how they feel about that, and them.

I'm just going to save this comment and start posting it everywhere I see this BS.

1. The childcare studies and parenting studies show that working parents actually spend more time, not less time, interacting with their children. They are doing more actual parenting than nonworking parents of previous generations.

2. Kids in childcare don't demonstrate any serious increases in behavior problems over the long term.

keep telling yourself that….its bullshit .

The peer-reviewed research says its bullshit.

If you want to tell yourself different to justify whatever it is you need to justify, go right ahead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not stereotyping people based on age. It's criticizing the REAITY of what this country has become under the Boomers' watch.

Let's have a little perspective on the "boomer watch" I was born in 1964, which makes me a boomer by one year.

*In 1969 a boomer walked on the moon
*In 1968 two were assasinated for being brave enough to try to change their world
*between 1969 and 1974 thousands of boomers left the country because they refused to be part of an unjust war. Because of them we have an all volunteer military and you can "travel the world" not go get killed in Afghanistan
* In the 1950's we legalized teh sale of the birth control pill, triggering the beginning of the sexual revolution. You are welcome !
* We invented Rock and Roll, the music industry, the sports industry
* we got rid of bill boards lining every inch of our nations highways
* we made sure black people could vote without getting hanged for trying
* we stopped calling them "negroes" and "colored people"
* we demanded equal sports for girls in all schools
* we put the fear of being sued into every pig operating against women in the work force
* we changed rape laws
* we got rid of the electric chair
* we started the exercize , fitness, and health food craze
* we invented the leisure skiing industry
* we eliminated small pox from the face of the earth and slowed the AIDS epidemic to a crawl
* we invented the cell phone, the computer and the internet



KISS OUR ASS

Uh, Black folks marched, were beaten, boycotted, and died for those rights. American policy didn't change until it was forced to (international embarrassment, a transit system primarily funded by Negro fares, etc). Please don't idolize this "contribution".

[Anonymous]

Yes, the millenials are the first "day care generation" poor executive function, little empathy, almost sociopathic compared to WWII generation. Its their kids who are really fucked…them and who ever hires them. well, at least for the first few days of their job when the actually show up .

Huh? Gen X and a few late baby boomers were the first to be in daycare. Not millenials.

[Anonymous]

Because mommy and daddy spoiled you rotten and now they have to take care of themselves and so do you?