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baby boomers have spawned their own baby boomers, assholes like you.
Why don't you blame The Greatest Generation that spawned the Baby Boomers.
So I was thinking. All these baby boomers are now dragging our country into . Inflating Social Security, Healthcare, etc like crazy. Not to mention doing crazy decisions just to hold on to their money on the short run.(Real Estate, Stock Market, Wars,etc)
Once these fossils are underground, I think is when this country will start recovering. Sad to say, but it is the damn truth. No offense, even my parents are baby boomers
Does anyone agree?
on that note,
http://www.boomerdeathcounter.com/
baby boomers have spawned their own baby boomers, assholes like you.
Why don't you blame The Greatest Generation that spawned the Baby Boomers.
The generally accepted birth years of the USA Baby Boomers is 1946-1964
I am not saying that we should bus the baby boomers to death camps, but don't you think 80 million OLD ppl leaving the world in the next 10-20 years will lighten the burden the country is carrying?
they are starting to drop like flies:
Percentage of USA Baby Boomers who are dead:
8.96490714 %
Total USA Baby Boomers left alive:
77,705,734.56
Seconds before the next USA Baby Boomer dies:
39.0
USA Baby Boomers died in last 24 hours:
2,213.2
I'm a Boomer, and I resent being called a "fossil"...
ruthless posting
mindless posting.
Actually its not even remotely mindless posting. Baby Boomers started to enter the power structure in the late 70s as the oldest entered their 30s and almost immediately we saw this country begin to go to .
They are the generation that has seen us pile up the massive debt that is the hallmark of their legacy of passing on responsibilities so they can make a buck today.
They are responsible for this proliferation of this futile drug 'war' that has been pimped since their entrance into the power structure. This is the highest irony because they spawned the hippy culture which makes them one of the biggest collection of hypocrites ever.
The WW2 generation stopped the European takeover of a German totalitarian society bent on eugenics and social control. They also saw the passing of the Civil Rights Act. Those are two of the most significant achievements in US HISTORY.
What have the Baby Boomers done?
They lost Vietnam and then spit on the soldiers coming home.
They ran up HUGE debts from the personal to the national level with no real intention or ability to ever pay back.
Really the only thing they can hang their hat on is running up humongous debts to make a faltering Soviet system go banrupt. WOOHOO!!!
Generation X which I am in the tail end of started entering the power structure about 10 years ago. It is no coincidence that you are seeing the political landscape to change a bit. We are seeing a black president that wannabee arch conservatives want to call a communist as president.
All I have to say is that we will be hard pressed to things up worse than our preceding generation has.
ROFL...dont confuse correlation with causation. You made a bunch of points up there. Back 'em up, cowboy.
The problem with Baby Boomers is the generation that bore them. Not the boomers. We are a generation of kids from families with several kids rather than families having fewer kids today. It was expected in the Ponzi Scheme of Social Security, that there would be even more people to pay for our benefits. It's not happening. even when we die, gen X will have the same SS issues.
PC's and the Internet immediately come to mind. But those things probably didn't have much of an influence on our society.
EDIT> Oh, and the THEN 20-somethings that worked at NASA and put a man on the moon.
Or that whole NASA thing.....you know. Totally inconsequential.
Doh! You edited!
Actually, this is a damn good point. If a large, aging demographic has fewer kids than their parents' generation, you're right, the Ponzi scheme of SS is not sustainable.
Causation is impossible to prove. Go read some Hume.
For example prove to me that some fourth dimensional monkey is or is not responsible for gravitation. You can ALWAYS infinitely regress.
The link however is very strong. When the majority of the workforce people in places of authority and the voter base are of a particular generation then you can attribute events to that generation. It tends towards it.
Now prove its not the case.
http://kn.theiet.org/magazine/issues...ocket-0912.cfmThe Apollo programme was a triumph of management in meeting the enormously difficult systems engineering and technological integration requirements. James E Webb, the Nasa administrator at the height of the programme between 1961 and 1968, always contended that Apollo was much more a management exercise than anything else, and that the technological challenge, while sophisticated and impressive, was always within grasp.
There is no question that the people in charge of the program, project leads etc were not 22 years old.
PCs I will give you to an extent. OTOH, it was created because IBM wanted to pass the costs off onto someone else --where have we heard that before?-- and licensed the OS to Gates and the chips to Intel. If it wasn't for fed intervention in favor of AMD we would have 2 trusts instead of one.
The internet only has proliferated in the last 10 years or so. For example Larry Page was born in 1973. 15 years ago before GenX got involved, you had things like AOL.
Yep, Bill Gates created Microsoft;
Al Gore created the internet.
That's a good point actually. It was assumed by some that a society with more resources would produce more children; however, advanced societies have tended to DECLINE slightly in new births.
LOL..I've forgotten more Hume than you've probably read.
You probably could infinitely regress on anything as you demonstate a lack of critical thought.
You posit your "position", such that it is, as a zero sum game while stringing together a nebulous collection of "trends". You neglect influences outside of your narrow data set, as if the world, external to the baby boomers, exerts no influence whatsoever. You seem to negate the fact that while boomers did indeed rise to some influence, influence which you've yet to quantify in any meaningful manner, we did so hand in hand with our parents and older brothers and sisters.
You omit obvious accomplishments in civil rights, for instance, while offering up the vietnam conflict? Are you seriously laying the Vietnam conflict at the feet of the baby boomers? That alone is enough to discredit the rest of your absurd collection of wishes and perceptions.
Read some Hume? Indeed.
If I ask you why you believe any particular matter of fact, which you relate, you must tell me some reason; and this reason will be some other fact, connected with it. But as you cannot proceed after this manner, in infinitum, you must at last terminate in some fact, which is present to your memory or senses; or must allow that your belief is entirely without foundation.
If you possessed the wit that you pretend to, you could easily build a better case for your argument by simply examining the change in the roles and modes of media across the baby boomer time frame. The decline of "Life" magazine as "People" and "US" magazines thrive.
Actually, my chihuahua could've developed that line of thought.
*Edit* Sorry. Just took my blood sugar. It's low. I get ing pompous when it's low.
Last edited by TeyshaBlue; 08-25-2009 at 07:48 PM.
Maaaaan, the baby boomers had good timing. I'm jealous.
What you are referring to is what Russell and to a degree Kant would say. Apparently you have forgotten quite a bit of Hume. What do you think the whole point of Critique of Pure Reason was for? You think he did it just on a lark?LOL..I've forgotten more Hume than you've probably read.
You probably could infinitely regress on anything as you demonstate a lack of critical thought.
You posit your "position", such that it is, as a zero sum game while stringing together a nebulous collection of "trends". You neglect influences outside of your narrow data set, as if the world, external to the baby boomers, exerts no influence whatsoever. You seem to negate the fact that while boomers did indeed rise to some influence, influence which you've yet to quantify in any meaningful manner, we did so hand in hand with our parents and older brothers and sisters.
You omit obvious accomplishments in civil rights, for instance, while offering up the vietnam conflict? Are you seriously laying the Vietnam conflict at the feet of the baby boomers? That alone is enough to discredit the rest of your absurd collection of wishes and perceptions.
Read some Hume? Indeed.
If I ask you why you believe any particular matter of fact, which you relate, you must tell me some reason; and this reason will be some other fact, connected with it. But as you cannot proceed after this manner, in infinitum, you must at last terminate in some fact, which is present to your memory or senses; or must allow that your belief is entirely without foundation.
If you possessed the wit that you pretend to, you could easily build a better case for your argument by simply examining the change in the roles and modes of media across the baby boomer time frame. The decline of "Life" magazine as "People" and "US" magazines thrive.
Actually, my chihuahua could've developed that line of thought.
All I am doing is attributing events that occur when a particular generation is between the ages of 30 and 50 to try and demonstrate the actions of said generation. Your dog must've come up with the media plan because its pretty damn stupid, I don't see a better idea than mine.
thank you. Eventhough the baby boomer generation made this nation what it is, it is now the biggest thing that is dragging the nation down. They have become spoiled, distracted in pointless bickering(dems vs. reps), lazy and now old so they have to be taken care of, without contributing.
that was the point of my post. there is nothing anybody can do, it's just the way it is. But the sooner we realize it, the better
now they have us distracted with Healthcare bickering, of couse because their old asses are worried about one thing only, extending their final years.
IMO anybody over 50 needs to STFU and let the young ppl fix this mess
They're the goat in the anaconda's body. Once it passes through things will change big time.
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