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I'm generation X and agree your generation is the most selfish. Your generation started the narcissistic "me me me and screw everyone else attitude". The world war II generation was the best generation in the last century.
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Originally Posted by illtaketwoplease
Really? What "extra" are younger generations paying for Boomers pray tell ? How are Boomers the "Most Selfish Generation" ? Be specific.
yep your generation created the latch key generation and killed over 45 million babies all in the name of reproductive freedom.
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Originally Posted by mlb
Millenials need to pack up their gear and spend years fighting endless wars like boomers have.... or years in service to America - I know more boomers who chose public service than corporate money.
Boomers laid the way to reproductive freedom, to women having their own credit, to the Civil and Voter Rights movements.... we walked the walk.
and studies have shown boomers have not saved enough to retire and thats why they keep working. Also, the younger generations are footing the bill for their boomer parents.
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Originally Posted by NVplumber
Not even sure where you're getting this from. We Boomers dont need or want anything from the new generations. We made provisions for our own stability independent of our children.
So what is it you will be changing at the polls? A shift to a socialist government? Something like that? It doesn't sound like you're thinking things over. But it's obvious your angry and bitter about something.
And you're aiming that at my generation. If its Social Security you're on about bear in mind, we paid into that our whole working lives. YOURE not paying for that.
If you're paying more into the SS program to keep it afloat that is not our fault. Talk to the government about that and how it was them that voted to make the SS trust part of the General Fund. They couldn't stand to see all that money sitting there where they couldn't get their hands on it. And oh my they spent it. Toot sweet.
Trust me, we Boomers were not happy about that. Like it even less now. That's one big issue. So....where is it you are paying more for our benefit?
I'm generation X and agree your generation is the most selfish. Your generation started the narcissistic "me me me and screw everyone else attitude". The world war II generation was the best generation in the last century.
I'm an early Boomer. My parents were from what is now called the WWII generation. They were called the Depression Kids for most of their lives, until Tom Brokaw's book about them. My father was in the US Army Aircorps, and Mom was a Rosy the Riveter. I had plenty of conversations with my mother about so many of her generation voting against their own interests in ways that negatively effected my generation. She thought it was disgraceful what they were doing. Some of that generation is still alive. The Silent generation was very small they split between being more like my parents' generation and more like mine. The Boomers have always been split on a lot of things, going back to and including Vietnam.
I never made accusations to my elders. I was able to see that viewpoints were split in each generation. Each generation has a slightly different spin on those viewpoints.
What has been most distressing in this thread is a refusal to understand that Boomers are not the oldest living generation. There are still two older generations. Just think, I remember, as a kindergartner, hearing the announcement on the nightly news that the last Civil War veteran had died. Boomers are the changeover generation.
Most of the individuals who stared down the barrel of the draft were the youngest members of the Silent generation and the oldest Boomers. These were the bulk of people who protested the draft for an undeclared war. These were the bulk of protesters for women's rights, and the protesters for Civil Rights were more mixed.
Dems know that, if only Biden was young enough to be a boomer. tsk, tsk...
I'm generation X and agree your generation is the most selfish. Your generation started the narcissistic "me me me and screw everyone else attitude". The world war II generation was the best generation in the last century.
I have no idea what you are talking about. But I want to try and understand where you are coming from. Can you cite some examples of this "me me me and screw everyone else attitude" ? I don't know of any boomer who is like that. Actually I feel that some in the younger generations act more that way - especially in work ethic. But I want to get perspective so please explain and be specific.
It’s weird. In the L.A. forums most of those opposed to building more are conservatives. Infwct reddit Los Angeles is liberal and wants more density.
Difference is libs want regulation to protect environmental factors while conservatives want regulations only when it ensures that it makes their pockets fat even if it’s detrimental to others...
It’s weird. In the L.A. forums most of those opposed to building more are conservatives. Infwct reddit Los Angeles is liberal and wants more density.
Difference is libs want regulation to protect environmental factors while conservatives want regulations only when it ensures that it makes their pockets fat even if it’s detrimental to others...
Protecting the environment doesn't include building over every scrap of open land, paving over every tree and cramming millions more people into an earthquake zone that doesn't have the natural resources to support it. You know, like drinking water.
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