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IMO the Boomers introduced the rampant Consumerism and "me first" attitude that is so prevalent in the U.S. today. While trying to keep up with the Jones' the Boomers escalated frivolous litigation, needless plastic surgery, play dates, bike helmets, car seats for 10 yr olds, paper cutter housing developments and retail strip malls. There is no longer any sense of Community in America.
The Boomer's corrupted this land with their selfishness.
Oh, out with the old geezers. Who needs that Boomer generation anyway?
Oh yea, the younger people who thought they deserved half million dollar houses because they had a couple years of college, lost those houses and came back to Mommy and Daddy's house cause they were broke. Meanwhile, the old geezers have to keep working to pay off their children's education and to finish paying for that wedding they put on for them and those payments continue long after the divorce was already final. They keep working to put food on the table and a roof over the heads of their children and grandchildren.
Just beware~Generation X and Generation Y will have their day, too when the following generations will complain how useless they've been and wish they'd just go away. Things come around in a full circle and you'll discover that some day.
Like the Mike and the Mechanics song begins "Every generation blames the one before.........." So whoever the blamer is now will be the blamee later if we keep pointing fingers and wailing about prevailing problems instead of trying to fix them.
Nobody has "ruined" America. For better or worse we are still a work in progress. Each generation contributes to both the good and the bad towards that progress. You can find failures with any generation but there is success to be found as well.
Whatever doesn't work now can be fixed, maybe the best solutions aren't always made but we keep trying because that is our future. Divisiveness between generations will not help improve anything. The newer generations can learn from the mistakes of the older ones and the older ones can admit when they have made the wrong choices.
We all have to live here. We can't help our ages from baby boomer to gen XYZ or whatever the labels created by the media that we are so quick to follow may be. We should stop playing the blame game and pool the energy and determination of the young and the knowledge and experience of the old. It just may work.
I am because of you. I am not because of you. What I have done and will do has no bearing on my life because of you. Is that what this thread is about? You are a Boomer it is all on you. Darn you!
Oops I mean Darn Me!
You could have been a doctor, but we became them first.
You could have become a lawyer, but we became one first.
You could have owned a home, but we owned one first.
You could have done a lot of things in your life but you are already 29 and it is to late because we did it first.
Oh, out with the old geezers. Who needs that Boomer generation anyway?
Oh yea, the younger people who thought they deserved half million dollar houses because they had a couple years of college, lost those houses and came back to Mommy and Daddy's house cause they were broke. Meanwhile, the old geezers have to keep working to pay off their children's education and to finish paying for that wedding they put on for them and those payments continue long after the divorce was already final. They keep working to put food on the table and a roof over the heads of their children and grandchildren.
Just beware~Generation X and Generation Y will have their day, too when the following generations will complain how useless they've been and wish they'd just go away. Things come around in a full circle and you'll discover that some day.
Technically, I'm at the tail end of the Baby Boomers, and I can pretty much say they are the Generation of Locusts. Baby Boomers were pretty much pure id, emerging from the womb saying, "I want."
Don't believe me? Just look at the wreckage they've left behind as they've moved through history, from the wreckage of public education to the dumbing down of culture, particularly in our universities. From wild expansion of the Federal government to fulfill their youthful idealistic whims through the imminent collapse of Social Security and Medicare bubble. And, of course, if you talk to a bunch of Baby Boomers, they'll get all nostalgic about the 60s as if it was some magnificent, epoch-shattering improvement to civilization. With the shining exception of the Civil Rights Era, the true point of the 60s was to prolong one's adolescence as long as possible.
When the last of the Baby Boomers are lowered into the grave, this country will probably let forth a collective sigh of relief for all the misery they have caused this country.
LOL...and what will the country say when Gen X and Y are lowered?
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