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Anonymous wrote:Gen-Xer here. Look, there's plenty of blame to go around for our current economic and political problems - it doesn't all fall at the feet of the Boomers.

HOWEVER, I do wish Boomers would recognize a few things about themselves that annoy the living fuck out of the rest of us:

- Nobody cares where you were when JFK was shot;
- You did not invent civil rights or social justice;
- The Beatles were great. Were. Past tense;
- Hippies suck.
- Yuppies are even worse than hippies;
- Yes, you are self-absorbed.

I am seriously tired of hearing how great Boomer music is. I've heard it so much I seriously do not care if I hear anything recorded before 1977 ever again.

Anonymous wrote:Gen-Xer here. Look, there's plenty of blame to go around for our current economic and political problems - it doesn't all fall at the feet of the Boomers.

HOWEVER, I do wish Boomers would recognize a few things about themselves that annoy the living fuck out of the rest of us:

- Nobody cares where you were when JFK was shot;
- You did not invent civil rights or social justice;
- The Beatles were great. Were. Past tense;
- Hippies suck.
- Yuppies are even worse than hippies;
- Yes, you are self-absorbed.

Anonymous wrote:hard to reply to a 2 year old thread, but here goes...
Boomer here: My parents, middle class, had a much higher standard of living than we do (1950s and 60s) Dad worked 9-5 with full benefits, retired with a large pension and put 4 kids thru college. House paid off at age 42. Mom never worked. Retired. That was the golden age of the middle class. Even people who are in their mid 60s now benefited from that. Now the upper and lower class have benefited, while the middle class life styles goes steadily down. The boomers did not cause it, but the whole country stood by and let the life style drift away. One of the great things we did -- and you contributed -- is stand by and let minorities take the good jobs -- both the easy, the state and the high paying. So the next time you step aside for a minority or recently arrived emigrant, its only your life style you are giving up.

Anonymous wrote: 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.

Anonymous wrote:hard to reply to a 2 year old thread, but here goes...
Boomer here: My parents, middle class, had a much higher standard of living than we do (1950s and 60s) Dad worked 9-5 with full benefits, retired with a large pension and put 4 kids thru college. House paid off at age 42. Mom never worked. Retired. That was the golden age of the middle class. Even people who are in their mid 60s now benefited from that. Now the upper and lower class have benefited, while the middle class life styles goes steadily down. The boomers did not cause it, but the whole country stood by and let the life style drift away. One of the great things we did -- and you contributed -- is stand by and let minorities take the good jobs -- both the easy, the state and the high paying. So the next time you step aside for a minority or recently arrived emigrant, its only your life style you are giving up.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They broke America.

Amen. Hate that generation.

Anonymous wrote:This thread is unbelievable. I guess many of you are bitching about your own parents. Maybe you should ask them to share their cushy $20K a year in Social Security with you. Boo hoo.

I was born in 1960, putting me toward the end of the boomers, and I was in fourth grade when the 60s ended. I won't be able to retire for decades. I have a daughter in high school and modest income with no pension and just a 3% 401(k) match. The first election I could vote in put Reagan into office, and I sure didn't vote for him.

Get over yourselves, stop whining and start saving.

Anonymous wrote:"The 51 million members of Generation X, born between 1965 and 1976, grew up in a very different world than previous generations. Divorce and working moms created 'latchkey' kids out of many in this generation. This led to traits of independence, resilience and adaptability. Generation X feels strongly that 'I don't need someone looking over my shoulder.'" Gen X -- face it, we rock. We should go on strike.

Anonymous wrote:They broke America.

Anonymous wrote:bye bye baby boomers, time to push you off the cliff.