Don't hate them but what's with the waste and hoarding and being broke.Sell the knick-knacks.

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Anonymous wrote:My boomer parents are selfish and could give a crap about being good grandparents even though they have the time/money to be (just had baby, helped for a day). When we are old, my husband and I aspire to be more helpful and generous with our time.

This has to be the most entitled post I've ever read. "My parents are selfish because they won't help meeeeeeeeeee."

are you joking PP? When people have children, they have families. So yes, grandparents should participate in the families they created.

OP, I'm with you. I can't wait to help my kids have kids when they grow up and can't imagine saying, "OK, I got what I wanted out of the parent-child relationship and now I'm not interested anymore. Being a grandparent is not my thing."

Well, I'm a boomer and I have no intention of retiring anytime soon. Why should I? I'm 63, healthy, love my work and still make a contribution in my job,. Any really, who retires anymore before at least age 70, given that life expectancies are so much longer and pensions are so much slimmer? The boomers will keep working for many reasons, and not just because of over-consumption of resources.

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Boomers consumed, consumed, consumed. And so now, many of them cannot retire, which means there's less upward mobility in jobs for younger generations.

Oh, Lord, yes.

Boomers consumed, consumed, consumed. And so now, many of them cannot retire, which means there's less upward mobility in jobs for younger generations.

Boomers are a mixed bag.

They did a lot of good -- moving women into nontraditional roles in big numbers, starting the GLBT rights movement, supporting a the Civil Rights movement started by the Silent Generation, pushing for the end of the draft, sexual liberation movement, environmental movement, beginning the revolution in computers and communication technology, opening up the culture to more diversity.

Those things caused a lot of upset, though, and unintentional consequences. That's hard to live with, especially if you are a kid at the time.

Boomers are also huge compared to Gen X, and insufferably smug. They also tend to criticize Xers and Millenials for not being Boomers and they NEVER see the good things that Xers and Millenials have going.

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.

You left out the worst boomer of all ^^ Obama with his pot smoking affirmative action laziness and an economy worse than the seventies .

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Anonymous wrote:Nah, it's just a few bitter people who can't stand their parents and instead of accepting that their families suck they want to make it a generation-wide problem.

Btw, the poster is incredibly easy to taunt.

I don't think it's just a few bitter people.

Consider what the boomers have consumed, versus what they've produced.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were boomers. You'd be typing your messages on carbon paper and mailing them to the newspaper without BB innovations.

but Bill Clinton and George Bush were the two boomer presidents. I rest my case.

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Anonymous wrote:Nah, it's just a few bitter people who can't stand their parents and instead of accepting that their families suck they want to make it a generation-wide problem.

Btw, the poster is incredibly easy to taunt.

I don't think it's just a few bitter people.

Consider what the boomers have consumed, versus what they've produced.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were boomers. You'd be typing your messages on carbon paper and mailing them to the newspaper without BB innovations.

Well, if Bill Gates was giving his fortune to shore up Medicare or something, I'd feel differently. Instead he's spending it in Africa.

There are exceptions to every observation, that's why they're general observations. I didn't say Boomers didn't produce anything. I just said they have consumed more. In contrast to the Greatest Generation, which was thrifty, Boomers consumed, consumed, consumed. And so now, many of them cannot retire, which means there's less upward mobility in jobs for younger generations.

Anonymous wrote:I think it has to do with the fact that the Boomers took what the Greatest Generation gave them and fucked it all up with their selfish bullshit.

The one adage you're supposed to follow is leave the world a better place than when you found it.

Boomers failed at this.

lamentably, I agree. And I am one.

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Anonymous wrote:Nah, it's just a few bitter people who can't stand their parents and instead of accepting that their families suck they want to make it a generation-wide problem.

Btw, the poster is incredibly easy to taunt.

I don't think it's just a few bitter people.

Consider what the boomers have consumed, versus what they've produced.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were boomers. You'd be typing your messages on carbon paper and mailing them to the newspaper without BB innovations.

Anonymous wrote:Nah, it's just a few bitter people who can't stand their parents and instead of accepting that their families suck they want to make it a generation-wide problem.

Btw, the poster is incredibly easy to taunt.

I don't think it's just a few bitter people.

Consider what the boomers have consumed, versus what they've produced.

Nah, it's just a few bitter people who can't stand their parents and instead of accepting that their families suck they want to make it a generation-wide problem.

Btw, the poster is incredibly easy to taunt.

They are not the majority. Just the loud, whiney ones.