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The OT link was published in 2009, are boomers still sorry or have they recanted by now?

There's an awful lot of people with Daddy issues.

jojo says

No issues here. I just want to hold a mirror up for the boomers and show them who they really are.

So in your mind every boomer is Donald Trump?

The future belongs to the Youth, your shit for brains education system programed that out of them. If you want to blame anyone for the Generation whine being so damn useless, then thank a teacher.

Call it Crazy says

jojo says

No issues here. I just want to hold a mirror up for the boomers and show them who they really are.

They have no sense of doing anything for the greater good or future generations and they should be ashamed and embarrassed because of that.

Just like what the GenX ers are doing to the GenY ers.... Right??

What makes you think that?

Jojo

You are a one trick pony

jojo says

What I am saying is that boomers have no sense of protecting and preserving the institutions and infrastructure that previous generations worked hard to build and put in place.

Well most of that was societal expectation, mutual respect, understanding, and moral fortitude, to give a crap and do what is expected. Get a hair cut, put on the monkey suit and get a job.

Gen-X You're generation, My Generation screwed the pooch on that. I've lived my life as a non conformist, reckoned my self living the fringe, the general rules didn't apply to me. Secretly deep down, I knew that all those old bastards were right, who told countless times... "Well what if everyone came into work when ever they felt like it, what if everyone grew their hair out and let them selves go, what if everyone was too good to work a 9 to 5 working stiff job, what if everyone did and behaved like you."

I heard it all, but I didn't listen because I was me, and I was leaving the herd, and in my mind, I was marching to the beat of a different drummer. But the further I walked, the more all of those dissonant beats, all melded into a unified beat of everyone doing what ever in the hell they wanted and screw everyone else, tradition or how things used to be.

No one was minding the store, we were all freakish freaks out on Parade, marching to a different beat to the same tune. Meanwhile the opportunists of ever color, religion, generation and social stock, seized the opportunity to grab the wheel, and stir our Government, and economy in the direction it is headed now.

It wasn't the boomers, they told us to get a damn job, we thought we had better ideas.

Truth be told, it was probably our own. Those who grew bored following the Dead, or clubbing at the Roxbury. They decided to get a job, but didn't know how. So they had to devise schemes, which was very easy to do, we had technology on our side. It was the perfect marriage of doing what ever in the hell you want, and a virtual technical way of doing it, impervious to any meaningful regulation or legislation. i.e. "This scheme is too complicated for you to understand, it may look like you're being hose, but that's just because you don't understand."

That shit didn't come from the boomers, it came from the Gen-X. Now the Gen-Y have taken it and ran with it, and it now scares the shit out of you, because they don't have any real skills.

While we were shiftless, and did our own thing, we did try to pick up as many skills as we could along the way. We did "want" to support our selves, just on our own terms.

jojo says

Yup, and i'm going to keep kicking you in the face.

This was what Hillary Clinton said in 1969:

She called for "a more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating mode of living."

Drugs?

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, 60 years old, told the graduating class of Butler University last month that boomers have been "self-absorbed, self-indulgent and all too often just plain selfish."

The sociopathic old goat is just hoping to get a pecker juicing from a coed or a young milf wih college loans.

Soap opera lines for the boomer baiters.

So much coerce-able pootang, so little time, the politicians' motto.

When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, my parents generation were mostly convinced the world was about to end. Whether it was nuclear holocaust or some type of biblical Armageddon scenario, everyone seemed to agree that "the end is near"(TM)
I guess this kind of thinking could have attributed to many very short sighted choices they made. Why invest in infrastructure or maintenance of equipment and property when it's all going to get nuked shortly?
The collapse of the Soviet Union probably caused the economic growth we saw in the 90s, as people who'd been hoarding and prepping got back to work building a future. But the religious fanatics ramped up their wailing about, this time with the "momentous" year 2000 in sight to reinforce their claims of imminent world destruction.
The last one was 2012, and I hope we don't see any more of these crackhead theories. They do nobody any good, but I suspect the urge to wish for an end to it all is encoded in our genes.

The economic activity is greatly influenced by demographics. This is what caused the expansion during the 90s

indigenous says

The economic activity is greatly influenced by demographics. This is what caused the expansion during the 90s

If this is the prime mover of economies, then America is screwed. An aging population, mostly very poor working people forming the center of the tax base, and entitled boomers sucking all productivity dry.

I could balance the budget and put America back to work in about 6 months. I'd end the free trade agreement with china and Latin America, offer Mexico the chance to become the 51st state, and impose 25% tariffs on all goods that are domestically produced in a significant way.
All of a sudden it would make more sense to make things here again, jobs would return, the economy would boom, tariff income would pay for the transition, and the government would have a surplus without raising taxes on anyone.
Problem solved.
If Mexico joined us, and agreed to be subject to our Constitution, the boom would be twice as big!

There's your solution, jojo.

Quigley says

If this is the prime mover of economies, then America is screwed.

Yes because of the debt at which point the market will clear because the entire country and world will fail in the ensuing market clearing.

If we did not have the debt it would not be a problem.

GenX & Millennials,
Sorry that you were held at gunpoint & forced to take on massive debt for a useless degree,& all the other crap you had to have. I do understand that it's not your fault. Go back to texting,programming & writing code & maybe you will stumble across the math involved in a personal budget. Of course you can always borrow more money. Yeah! That's the ticket.

Here's your new theme song because you are not responsible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Sdn3O6aaMNc#!

CaptainShuddup says

There's an awful lot of people with Daddy issues.

Dibs

Quigley says

When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, my parents generation were mostly convinced the world was about to end. Whether it was nuclear holocaust or some type of biblical Armageddon scenario, everyone seemed to agree that "the end is near"(TM)

The end is still near. It's called global warming. Unfortunately, it will be a slower and far more painful death than nuclear war or the Biblical Armageddon. And there's no way to avoid global warming since our survival (at current population levels) depends on burning fossil fuels.

Yup, Milleniums, X's, and Y'ers, the end IS near, snuggle up to smooch the hairy butts of the baby boomers.

freak80 says

Quigley says

When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, my parents generation were mostly convinced the world was about to end. Whether it was nuclear holocaust or some type of biblical Armageddon scenario, everyone seemed to agree that "the end is near"(TM)

The end is still near. It's called global warming. Unfortunately, it will be a slower and far more painful death than nuclear war or the Biblical Armageddon. And there's no way to avoid global warming since our survival (at current population levels) depends on burning fossil fuels.

It may come to that. Not because it's unavoidable, but because policy makers rarely think further than the next election, and treat science like arcane magics best left alone. Several doable proposals for combating global warming have been made, but there's too much inertia in the "let's all just stop burning fossil fuels!" camp to get anything realistic off the ground.

jojo says

It sounds like you are a Gen Xer like me. I agree with you and now we need to step in and run things because our parents can't seem to do it.

Boomers seem to be hanging on to their positions of power with claw-like ferocity, and do not seem to have any intention of letting it go. Example: Instead of a Generation X president in 2008 we get a Late-Boomer president for 8 years (Obama), after years of Boomer presidents, since Bill Clinton was appointed. (Bush I was a Silent Gen).

Will they ever turn the "mantle of power" over to Gen X? I have a sneaking suspicion they are trying to skip over Gen X and hand it directly to Gen Y.

Also, my concern is that the Gen X politicos have been corrupted by the Boomer's mentorships and will end up just following the same trail led by the Boomers.

Things need to change but I don't believe the current system supports change, which means...

I'm pretty sure that "baby boomers" and "gen x" don't mean what you think they mean.

dodgerfanjohn says

I'm pretty sure that "baby boomers" and "gen x" don't mean what you think they mean.

Are we trying to be obscure or just cryptic?

Okay, I give up, what do they mean?

Nice musings....so where's the beef??

jojo says

No issues here. I just want to hold a mirror up for the boomers and show them who they really are.

They have no sense of doing anything for the greater good or future generations and they should be ashamed and embarrassed because of that.

Edit: I have to qualify this and say there are some (a small minority) of boomers who don't think this way.

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P N Dr Lo R says

This was what Hillary Clinton said in 1969:

She called for "a more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating mode of living."

Drugs?