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[quote=Anonymous] Pretty much  every one over 50 I know these days is a douchebag.  On one hand we owe the liberal boomers a lot. The conservatives not so much.  I do think on the whole they were the most fucked up generation, in that they where clearly disorganized, the hippie movement was clearly half baked as where most of its participants.  But the biggest irony here is some many of that generation did drugs and had sex to rebel against their parents ideals only to become just like them when they hit 45. Not to mention that so many of you are clearly in denial about what happens when we get older, and simply don't like it. The younger generation wants some security, the older generation wants to be younger, and these so called millenials ( not a real word?)  in turn will have to be more like their grandparents generation  one that is capable of dealing with enormous stress, able to face the depressions of life, the ability to create a life outside of corporate infrastructure  because once America was made up of  small privately owned businesses instead of cookie cutter anything. Remember the old soda fountains, the barber shops,  drugstores and hardware stores?  Remember when your mechanic was your neighbor? I don't. I was born in 79, and those things were almost extinct by the time I hit middle school. The simple truth of my generation is this,  most middle class jobs that once supported their workers no longer pay enough money to justify the hamster wheel they create. But I suspect that any baby boomers out there who are not financially secure already who are basically in the same boat as the younger gens,  know this already.  At some point the reality of things may change to where this discussion is obsolete and or moot, because as much as we all think" it's not our job to......"  Society is something we all have to be a part of,  and the young and old should take care of each other,  and for thousands of years the older generations have had the money but they realized in the past it wasn't much use without people to care about. Too many baby boomers are afraid to retire, because either they haven't really got what they need to do so or they don't want to get old, because when their parents did that they got even older almost immediately and often passed away, death is scary, and well we shouldn't be so quick to push people of a cliff. However , you guys are really confusing, many of you obviously never really had your shit together , and , as child born to wealthy parents who lost it all in the 80s, so e of you where really spoiled, and don't even remember it , because you most likely took it for granted. In the late 60s my dad drove a jag XKE.  He had it 8 months before he wrecked it. It was then replaced  a series of equally expensive cars.  He also basically stole my college money from under my nose. He also told me that if I was gay and ever got aids he would disown me.  It didn't matter, he had already take everything. By the time we got there, there was nothing to disown. [/quote]

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