The Most Selfish Generation

[Tupac Shakur]

Thank you, Tupac Shakur. I'm glad someone here agrees with me, haha.

No problem, man. I've got much love for all the free-thinkers who figured out I was still alive years ago.

[Hauldren Collider]

I love the history channel, too, Sox!

[Darius871]

Sox

(By that I mean that I totally agree with him on any and all matters)

[DaShi]

I've forwarded all of Sox's posts to the FBI.

[Aeson]

You do realize that if there hadn't been a rabidly anti-American, drug-using and communist-symphatizing (and very media-sensationalized) anti-war movement in the US college system, opposition to the war in Vietnam would've turned into a non-partisan issue after the 1968 elections and US support for the South Vietnamese government would've slowly & silently died by 1970, right?

You're insane. Even if you were right, all your argument does is paint the pro-war side as even more hideous.

Drafting poeple to get maimed and die, and kill others... for votes. How could we be so callous as to think that's evil? :rollsroyce:

Of course, the baby boomers have spun this into a story of eeeevil politicians...

[Agent Sox]

DaShi, I hope you are joking, haha. The FBI doesn't want to hear from me again because I sent them too many complaints in the past.

[Az]

Haha indeed, Agent Sox, haha indeed.

[Az]

Haha indeed, Agent Sox, haha indeed.

[Dinner]

We should restart the old Roman arena games where baby boomers fight to the death. The winner gets to keep his social security and medicare while the loser... Well, he gets to help reduce the deficit.

[Tupac Shakur]

The Baby Boomers would just flee to Canada; we've already seen that they weren't willing to fight when they had the chance.

[Hauldren Collider]

Then it's simple. Conquer Canada.

[Az]

Don't you have to be a resident to collect these benefits?

[Dinner]

Yes, but eliminating baby boomers is still a good thing.

[Dauphin]

Hunker down and wait it out. They'll be gone eventually....

[Tupac Shakur]

The problem is that their debt won't be.

[Tupac Shakur]

Honesty

In his book The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw paid homage to the generation that emerged from the Great Depression to fight Hitler and other forms of tyranny. Their efforts were all about sacrifice so that their children could enjoy a better life. They sacrificed on the front lines of battle and back home in the factories that produced what was needed to wage war.

We, on the other hand, are members of the Baby Boom generation (the authors are both 60 years old)—a cohort that is hardly known for its selflessness—and we can’t help but wonder: What, exactly, happened to the children of the “Greatest Generation?” Where is our willingness to sacrifice so that our children can enjoy a life even better than ours?

Why Are the Children of the ‘Greatest Generation’ So Selfish?

[Aeson]

Is the photo on that article an underhanded reference to the time honored tradition of medicare funded plastic surgery?

[Donegeal]

Change some of the references and the song can fit any generation.

[grumbler]

Baby boomers are pretty vile.

Agreed. Also true of the "Greatest" Generation and the Silent Generation before them, and the Loser Generations and Gen Y behind them.

What is worse than members of these generations, though, is the halfwits that make generalizations about "generations." Especially those from the Loser Generation.

[grumbler]

Honesty

In his book The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw paid homage to the generation that emerged from the Great Depression to fight Hitler and other forms of tyranny. Their efforts were all about sacrifice so that their children could enjoy a better life. They sacrificed on the front lines of battle and back home in the factories that produced what was needed to wage war.

We, on the other hand, are members of the Baby Boom generation (the authors are both 60 years old)—a cohort that is hardly known for its selflessness—and we can’t help but wonder: What, exactly, happened to the children of the “Greatest Generation?” Where is our willingness to sacrifice so that our children can enjoy a life even better than ours?

Why Are the Children of the ‘Greatest Generation’ So Selfish?

The best thing about that article was how it showed that the "Baby Boomer" authors were morons enough to believe that the "Baby Boomers" were the children of the "Greatest Generation" when they were their grand-children.

Also, they were morons for believing myths about the "Greatest Generation" when, in fact, the "Boomers" were the ones who paid for all those benefits that the GG and SG collected (the latter two groups never having paid much into Social Security).

The great difference between the "Baby Boomers" and the "Loser Generation" was that the "Boomers" at least paid up without moaning.

Interesting trivia bit: There were no Presidents from the "Silent Generation" (1925-1945). The torch was passed directly from the GG (Poppy Bush, born 18924) to the BB (Bubba Clinton, born 1946).

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Loser generation loves to moan and whine. Fact.

[Dinner]

Agreed. Also true of the "Greatest" Generation and the Silent Generation before them, and the Loser Generations and Gen Y behind them.

What is worse than members of these generations, though, is the halfwits that make generalizations about "generations." Especially those from the Loser Generation.

[grumbler]

Loser generation loves to moan and whine. Fact.

True, but also true of all generations. You can find Ancient Romans moaning about how the younger generation is a bunch of slackers.

[Dinner]

They were! They let the empire fall apart and couldn't be bothered to serve in the legions.

[rah]

I do remember back in the stone age when I was interviewing and the question of working long hours would come up and you'd give a gung ho answer that you'd work as long as needed to get the job done.


Now when I'm interviewing the kids out of college they get a blank look on their face and start mumbling about work life balance. NEXT.... My my times have changed.

[MRT144]

The problem is that their debt won't be.

Default and Greenbacks my friend!

[MRT144]

I do remember back in the stone age when I was interviewing and the question of working long hours would come up and you'd give a gung ho answer that you'd work as long as needed to get the job done.


Now when I'm interviewing the kids out of college they get a blank look on their face and start mumbling about work life balance. NEXT.... My my times have changed.

Sounds like the younger generation has a more realistic and healthy attitude towards life than the older generation.

[rah]

and then wonder why they're unemployed.

[Ben Kenobi]

Now when I'm interviewing the kids out of college they get a blank look on their face and start mumbling about work life balance. NEXT.... My my times have changed.

Did you see the recent article saying that men make the same as they did in the 50's taking into account inflation?

I know what life was like for my father. He could work for 4 months of the year and pay off his entire education. Then work for a couple years and buy a house.

Life was so hard for the boomers.

[MRT144]

and then wonder why they're unemployed.

Because they refuse to lie their way into your good graces and eventually disappoint you?

And I really think it's a tragedy you blame youth unemployment on the youth's work ethic when for all intents and purposes, entry level jobs by and large have not been created in 3 years.