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This question was posed on Yahoo! Well, what do you think? Did you? Post yes or no examples below. Did baby boomers ruin the chance for their kids to ever retire?
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.
Its funny that it wasn't until the boomers started retiring that all the problems happened. Seems like the new generation can't handle their affairs as well. Afterall they are the entitlement generation looking for a new parent in the government.Not all which explains the growing income gap in the present generation;those that can and those that can't. Bommers have been retiring by the millions since they were 50. Then look at the drop outrate now and what has happened to our school's since the late 70's. This generation maybe the First that do worese than their ancestors.They love to blame everyhting on someone else;and love the predisposed excuse for any problem they have.Look at the number of one parent children and ven the huge number of children being raised by their bommer grandparents.
This question was posed on Yahoo! Well, what do you think? Did you? Post yes or no examples below. Did baby boomers ruin the chance for their kids to ever retire?
Is there some statistic that shows the baby boomers are the demographic who is most in debt and experiencing home foreclosures (compared to their percent of the population) and how does this prevent their kids from saving money to retire?
I'm a Boomer - and I was taught by my depression-era parents to save, save, save. Not buy, buy, buy.
Thank you, Mom and Dad
I'm a tail end Boomer myself and I learned the same lessons.
IMHO it's the "Generation X" who followed us - people now in their mid-40's and younger who were the "gimme" generation, who bought the houses they can't afford and such.
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."
No, not from the womb. They popped out into a society where business and advertising were churning away at creating an ever more voracious consumer society. Boomers were educated into greed and life-long adolescence. It was good for business, so it had to be good for America.
Whoooooops...maybe it wasn't.
Oh well, too bad about that now because at this point Boomers are practically innocents when it comes to greed and self-engrossment.
I'm a tail end Boomer myself and I learned the same lessons.
IMHO it's the "Generation X" who followed us - people now in their mid-40's and younger who were the "gimme" generation, who bought the houses they can't afford and such.
And "X" is the generation complaining about Boomers, usually.
So - another question - does that mean that a lot of Boomers were bad parents and didn't prepare their children?
And "X" is the generation complaining about Boomers, usually.
So - another question - does that mean that a lot of Boomers were bad parents and didn't prepare their children?
I have no children - can't blame me
Jeez, first we ruined America. Then we refuse to retire early, killing the job market for the younger folks. Now, we are bad parents. Fortunately, with the coming Healthcare "improvements", we can be judged worthless and they can kill us off early.
I guess I'll just wait here to be euthanized so I can save America. In the interim let me alone so I can enjoy a cup of coffee because it's a beautiful Saturday morning.
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Then we refuse to retire early, killing the job market for the younger folks. 
Now, we are bad parents.
Fortunately, with the coming Healthcare "improvements", we can be judged worthless and they can kill us off early.
In the interim let me alone so I can enjoy a cup of coffee because it's a beautiful Saturday morning.
